Written after the discovery of over forty Bronze Age burial urns in seventeenth-century Norfolk, Sir Thomas Browne's profound consideration of the inevitability of death remains one of the most fas...
The great Victorian scientist's heroic adventures across South-East Asia, from Singapore to the wilds of New Guinea, encountering head-hunters, jungles, birds of paradise and new discoveries that w...
Ucz się języka dzięki opowiadaniom w językach obcych w formie drukowanej książeczki oraz audiobooka. 20 ciekawych historii pozwala nie tylko na poszerzenie umiejętności czytania i słuchania w język...
FRIDAY ON MY MIND is a classic Nicci French psychological suspense thriller in which nothing is quite what it seems. When a bloated corpse is found floating in the River Thames the police can at le...
The epitome of the chivalric novel, Ivanhoe sweeps readers into Medieval England and the lives of a memorable cast of characters. Ivanhoe, a trusted ally of Richard-the-Lion-Hearted, returns from t...
Franny Glass and Lane Coutell are the perfect campus couple: beautiful, intelligent, their whole lives ahead of them. But one weekend when Franny is visiting, amid the excitement of the big Yale ga...
Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police ...
A small guest-house in an English seaside town run by a mother and her two children is the setting of this story. A lot of people come and stay for shorter or longer periods. The story is boult up ...
Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, Tortilla Flat is also his funniest novel.Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Montere...
'It flashed upon me suddenly: they were going to shoot me!'This electrifying eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution, written by an American journalist in St Petersburg as the Bols...
Decoded tells the story of Rong Jinzhwen, one of the great code-breakers in the world.A semi-autistic mathematical genius, Jinzhen is recruited to the cryptography department of China's...
The story of a man who plans the perfect crime. He murders his wife while they are on holiday together in Norway. Two children see the wife falling into the deep waters of the fjord with a heavy ca...
A novel of desperate yearning and vanished adolescence, the story of Meaulnes and his restless search for a lost, enchanted world has the atmosphere of a dream and the purity of a fairy tale....
Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and pa...
Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout, has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmast...
Fingers crossed that Marian has a new novel out soon but until then why not laugh your socks off with this hilarious collection of tales, observations and flights of fancy from the funniest woman i...
Vividly imagining the second coming and capture of Christ during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, this parable recounted in The Brothers Karamazov is a profound, nuanced exploration of faith, s...
Whether calling for an end to the capitalist system, addressing the crowds after the Russian Revolution, or attacking Stalin during his years of exile, Trotsky's speeches give an extraordinary insi...