Before. Miles ?Pudge? Halter?s whole life has been one big non-event. Then he heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-butboring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe.
The most famous true crime novel of all time and one of the first non-fiction novels ever written; In Cold Blood is the bestseller that haunted its author long after he finished writing it.
The classic novel of 'villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing', soon to be a major new ITV series from the producers of Poldark, Victoria and And Then There Were None.
Edinburgh, 1847. Will Raven is a medical student, apprenticing for the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Sarah Fisher is Simpson’s housemaid, and has all of Raven’s intelligence but none of his privileges.
Detailní portrét mysli a života člověka závislého na narkoticích. Když se objevila zpráva, že Tiffany Jenkinsová leží v deliriu na podlaze vězeňské cely, byli lidé v jejím městě šokováni.
Ivan Szabó patří ke generaci, která se o aristokracii, o šlechtě, o modré krvi, nedozvěděla ve škole příliš mnoho pozitivního. Učili ho, že to byli vykořisťovatelé pracujícího lidu, nezodpovědní lidé, kteří obyčejně prohýřili majetek, ...
V židovské čtvrti belgických Antverp žije největší komunita ortodoxních Židů po New Yorku a Jeruzalémě. Jejich štrajmly, pejzy, černé kabáty a bílé podkolenky upomínají, že sem kdysi přišli z východní Evropy.
‘Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.’
GEORGE ORWELL is one of the world’s most famous writers and social commentators.
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to.
Twenty-one stories and a novella that will disturb and delight, from the author of Fight Club. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display.