Jake wakes up one morning and finds a red mark on his face. Like any sixteen-year-old, he is not happy with the mark, but does not worry about it. When he sees that some of the others boys in his h...
Obrazy tworzone przez Leszka Mądzika wyrastają z głębi doświadczenia egzystencjalnego i duchowego artysty, z siły przeżywania przez niego tajemnicy światła.
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on hi...
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ...
Married to a great man, in love with a man like no other...When Charles Sainte-Beuve, a French journalist, met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a...
Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse...
Settling into ranch life with her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, former Wall Street trader Mags Rogers doesn’t miss the world of investment banking - because its destructive tentacles have re...
Three killers are on the rampage in the capital and dead bodies are piling up.Alex Cross is in charge of all three investigations and has never been under more pressure. But with a cris...
William James's strong beliefs in a pragmatic theory of truth - that truth is only as relevant as its effect on us - lead to these absorbing essays on fact and belief. Within them is a fascinating ...
Marvel's The Avengers Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive volume of Marvel's premier Super Hero team ever. Follow the genesis of the team and the individual heroes - including Captain America, T...
Gunshots and explosions fill the air, and suddenly you - and everyone else - are running for your lives.You stumble across a dead man slumped against an open locker containing a bag full of d...
Danilo Kis is one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe. This collection of short fiction delves into uncanny characters, magical places and millennia of history. From the story of a c...
Foucault's writings on power and control in social institutions have made him one of the modern era's most influential thinkers. Here he argues that punishment has gone from being mere spectacle to...
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by gr...
A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in...
In a remote corner of Norway - a mountain town so far north the sun never sets - a man is running for his life in the thrilling sequel to number one bestseller Jo Nesbo's Blood on SnowJ...
The fourth psychological thriller from number 1 international bestseller Camilla Lackberg. A woman is found dead in Tanumshede, apparently the victim of a tragic car crash. It's the first in a spat...
From the bestselling author of the Harry Hole series, comes a short, sharp shock of a thriller. Blood on Snow: Drugs. Death. Murder. Revenge - and a hitman with two big problemsOlav liv...
Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, knowing gets mysterious, fiction gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.