“Polite writers are often chaste in life. Every perversity has one seductive basic idea. Each is a symbol of this idea. From cunnilingus to coprophagy: it’s the idea of indulging onesel...
To the outside world, they were the icons of high society — the most glamorous and influential women of their age. To Truman Capote they were his Swans: the ideal heroines, as vulnerable as t...
I was seven years old the first time my uncle poisoned me . . .Only a handful of people in Silasta know Jovan’s real purpose in life. To most, he is just another son of the ruling...
Gabe ma dość. Senior rodu pod groźbą wydziedziczenia zmusza go do zawarcia małżeństwa. Gabe postanawia wziąć ślub, ale tylko z Brianne, której bezgranicznie ufa. Podpiszą obopólnie ko...
With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York Moll Flanders follows the life of its eponymous heroine through its many vicissitudes, which include her early...
Amerykanka Laurel Forrester przyjechała do Rzymu, by poznać narzeczonego swojej matki. Spotkanie z nim skończyło się dla Laurel dramatycznym przeżyciem. Zdołała jednak uciec od natręta i windą doje...
The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and non-fict...
With this historic win for ‘Bring Up the Bodies’, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes (her first was for ‘Wolf H...
A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war be...
Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a ‘shiner’, aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny’s v...
June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly throws salt on his field, shoots his horse and livestock, sets fire t...
He went to Dark Score Lake to confront his past. Now he might drown in it . . .When Mike Noonan’s wife dies unexpectedly, the bestselling author suffers from writer’s block....
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be ...
Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous f...
Anyone who has heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a collection from him is cause for jubilation. A move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious pieces, inc...
Jedna z najsłynniejszych powieści o detektywie Sherlocku Holmesie w specjalnym przełożeniu według metody I.Franka. W centrum wydarzeń jest śledztwo w sprawie śmierci Sir Charles Baskerville. W jego...
A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny.Ah Hock ...
This is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of h...
If you go down to the woods today, you better not go alone . . .The last thing Tom Campbell remembers is camping in the New Forest with his girlfriend, Melissa. Helpless, alone and cons...
Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's childhoods were destroyed by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father – a notorious def...