1788, and unrest rumbles asross France. Asa Ardleigh, the impressionable daughter of a country squire, travels to Paris with her newly wedded sister, Philippa. In the heady days before Revolution, ...
Antologia literatury angielskiej prezentuje szeroki wybór tekstów od początków literatury angielskiej do końca I wojny światowej. Każda epoka poprzedzona jest krótką, al...
This exciting literary debut from a prodigious young talent introduces an unlikely hero who'll prove impossible to forget... Selim's first view of Europe is a vast, thick carpet of digested pasta. ...
After just a year of close, loving marriage, Ruth is a widow. Her beloved husband, Ben, has been killed in a tragic accident and Ruth is left, suddenly and totally bereft.Unable to share her ...
In a matter of days, Peter McDowell loses everything he has worked so hard for – including his marriage. Stripped of everything, he has only one place he can retreat to: the home he left twen...
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothi...
Saved, rescued, fished-up, half-drowned, out of the deep, dark river, dry clothes, hair shampooed and set...Set in a 1930s Paris of shabby hotel rooms, seedy bars and drunken encounters...
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen began Pride and Prejudice with one of the most famous sentences in English literature. It continues with wit, social precision, an irresistable heroine and is p...
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen began Pride and Prejudice with one of the most famous sentences in English literature. It continues with wit, social precision, an irresistable heroine and is p...
It’s a steamy summer night in Georgetown, and Caroline Cooper is feeling the heat - in more ways than one. Her job, her family, her love life: everything’s reached a boiling point and C...
‘What you do to children matters. And they might never forget’Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorou...
Tamsin and her best friend Michelle have been inseparable since they were teenagers. Even now they spend all their time together, along with Patrick, Michelle's handsome husband.So when...
'It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances: firing wildly into the cactus from a car full of drugs'Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the evolution o...
Is there really such a thing as a good luck charm? Ex-soldier Logan Thibault thinks he just might have found one. Haunted by memories of the friends he lost in Iraq, Logan knows how fortunate he is...
Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounde...
The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The Open Window' an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the frig...
A dazzling second novel from the author whose debut was compared to Sarah Waters and Daphne Du Maurier. Set during the long, hot summer of 1976, where a young Cambridge mathematician arrives in a r...
New summer novel from the bestselling author of "Chances, Secrets, Pillow Talk" and many others. This centres around a Georgian estate in a Herefordshire village and whether it should be ...
Born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war, and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After ...