Lou Clark knows too many things . . .She knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London.She knows her employer is a good man a...
From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany'Nothing so confronts a woman with the deathly futility of h...
Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter.
Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter.
Aniela, po dziesięciu latach nieobecności, wraca do rodzinnego miasteczka na pogrzeb dorosłego brata. Wpadła tu tylko na chwilę, ale pechowy zbieg okoliczności sprawia, że będzie musiała zostać na ...
Aniela, po dziesięciu latach nieobecności, wraca do rodzinnego miasteczka na pogrzeb dorosłego brata. Wpadła tu tylko na chwilę, ale pechowy zbieg okoliczności sprawia, że będzie musiała zostać na ...
Nell's boyfriend has deserted her in Paris . . . alone in the most romantic city in the world, can she forget him to find herself?Eleven unmissable stories from the author of heart brea...
Część trzecia: losy Tatiany, Aleksandra i ich syna Anthony’ego, osiadłych w USA.Jest rok 1946. Tatiana i Aleksander chcą wreszcie żyć jak normalna rodzina. Bardzo kochają swego ma...
Wybucha II wojna. Siedemnastoletnia Tatiana błyskawicznie staje się dorosła. Podczas blokady Leningradu jest podporą dla całej rodziny. Wielką miłością do Aleksandra, młodego oficera, nie ma kiedy ...
Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 'King of the Beats', needs peace, quie...
The Help is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett, published as a Penguin Essential for the first timeEnter a vanished and...
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years now t...
Ivy is always destined to meet Abe.But when is the RIGHT time?At school, as a free spirit in her twenties or when she is married . . . to someone else?Perhaps they meet when...
A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only stolen kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others through...
Taking respite from the Man of Wrath, her children and her stifling household, Elizabeth discovers that the path to joy lies in having a garden, rather than a room, of one's own. This enchanting se...
In Ghosts, a group of immigrant workers and their families are squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. One teenage girl's interest in the ghosts on the site bec...
Isabel Osmond, a spirited, intelligent young heiress, flees to London after being betrayed by her husband, to be with her beloved cousin Ralph on his deathbed. After a sombre, silent existence at h...
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and...
'They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden party if they had ordered it'A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura...
Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife N...