From the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see someone - and love someone - for who they truly are.
Kaspián se vrací do Vinegie, jenom aby našel město v područí nepřítele. Jeho přátelé jsou pryč, spojenci v žaláři nebo mrtví a kdesi v temnotě číhá Ufiel, aby mu zasadil poslední ránu.
Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'.
These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared.
A taut thriller about murder, maths and the mind. Peter Blankman is afraid of everything but must confront truly unimaginable terror when his mother is attacked.
Tash Carmody has been traumatised since childhood, when she witnessed her gruesome imaginary friend Sparrow lure young Mallory Fisher away from a carnival. At the time nobody believed Tash, and she has since come to accept that Sparrow wasn’t real.
In a perfect world, what is there left to fear? A chilling and thought-provoking sci-fi novel from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman.
A dark, gripping and witty thriller in which the only thing humanity has control over is death.
The dark and thrilling sequel to Scythe, the New York Times sci-fi bestseller.
The stakes are high in this chilling sci-fi thriller, in which professional scythes control who dies.
Po trpkém zklamání v lásce se Ellie rozhodne od základů změnit svůj život. Vymění nudnou kancelářskou práci ve městě za život na venkovském zámku, kde získá pronájem tamější kavárny. Splní si tak svůj dávný sen...
Katherine, uznávaná profesorka literatury na Oxfordské univerzitě, se netají svou láskou ke knihám Jane Austenové. Během konference věnované Jane Austenové, na ni však čeká obrovské překvapení, jež si v ničem nezadá se zápletkou románu.
Čtyři generačně odlišné ženy z různých koutů světa, které se neznají a mají jedno společné: každá má problém se svými blízkými. Nezávisle na sobě ho řeší prázdninovým dobrodružstvím na řeckém ostrově Korfu.
I princ Charles, následník britského trůnu, je jenom člověk. Ani jemu se nevyhnuly životní peripetie běžných smrtelníků. Prožíval je stejně jako kdokoliv jiný.
Seb's beautiful, beloved wife Leda has been killed by a swan. Sorting through her belongings after her death, he comes across a packet of unopened letters from Olaf, a man whom Leda had never mentioned.
One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America.
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Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich.
What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years.
