Homme fatal - "Osudový muž" - je zbierkou 60 voľnoveršových básní, v ktorých autorka tematizuje partnerstvo muža a ženy v tých najrozličnejších polohách a variáciách. Tri cykly - Znamenia, Zámok, Zakázané územie - sa dotýkajú témy partnerstva,predmanželského života, cez svadbu, život v manželstve až po chúlostivú tému manželského trojuholníka.
'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . ..'So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double-act.
'In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . ..
A lush fantasy retelling of Hansel and Gretel set in seventeenth-century Germany, perfect for fans of Brigid Kemmerer, Naomi Novik and Marissa Meyer. Almost twenty years have passed since Greta and her brother Hans escaped the old woman’s cottage in the Black Forest, but there was no living happily ever after for them.
In this dazzling sequel to the The Surviving Sky, Ahilya and Iravan risk everything-their lives, their culture, and their fragile marriage-in pursuit of the earth-shattering truth about their existence. "Breathtakingly inventive" epic science-fantasy inspired by Hindu philosophy, for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Tasha Suri.
The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize-shortlisted Anton HurWhen Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with her psychiatrist, her hope was to create a reference for herself. She never imagined she would reach so many people, especially young people, with her reflections.
Summer in London can only mean one thing: tennis. For two weeks Wimbledon hosts the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world and this year everyone is talking about player Kieran O’Sullivan, the infamous bad boy of the sport with one last chance to win a Grand Slam. Everyone, that is, except Flora Hendrix.
Wai and Ling are secondary school Chinese language teachers in Hong Kong, both crumbling under the pressure of a forced transition from using Cantonese to Mandarin as a medium of Chinese-language instruction.
'Stimulating, elegant, distinctive and thought-provoking' The Sunday TimesFrom the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction.
The Murderbot Diaries meets In the Lives of Puppets in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder, rebellion and belonging from Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.Task List Item No. 1 – Become self-aware . . .Meet Charles™, the latest in robot servant technology.
'Captivating. Kent effortlessly weaves travels that are close to his heart into a bigger story of Turkey’s past and present' – Michal HusainThe Endless Country takes a journey through Turkey’s past – the nation the author’s father left decades ago and he returns to as a young man.
'A rollicking debut' - Telegraph'A necessary exploration of identity and belonging' - Derek Owusu, author of That Reminds MeIn Ashleigh Nugent's dynamic coming-of-age comedy of errors, Locks, teenager Aeon is on a quest for belonging.
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller'I adored it!
"A grown-up gothic fairy tale" — The Guardian's "five best young adult books of 2023""With its silver-sprinkled jacket, this elegiac story . . .
A captivating mystery perfect for fans of The List of Suspicious Things and Elizabeth is Missing. On a suburban street filled with secrets, 84 year old Edie Green must look back into the past to discover what happened to her friend Lucy, who went missing years before . .. *Selected as an Indie Book of the Month*It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely.
Edinburgh, 1791. Isobel Duguid and her friend Clessidro are the stars of the Edinburgh Musical Society. Clessidro sings opera and Isobel sings famously dark Scottish ballads, despite being incapable of holding a tune.They roam the streets of Edinburgh, enjoying an opulent lifestyle.
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From the Observer debut novelist of the year, comes a blistering, heart-wrenching new novel of complicity and atonement, delving into one nurse's experience of the little-known history of conversion therapy and the heart-breaking betrayal of the AIDS crisis. March 2020. Annie is alone in her house as the world shuts down, only the ghosts of her memories for company.
SIX hugely hilarious and spectacularly moving novels from bestselling, critically acclaimed author David Walliams, in one INCREDIBLE box set!
Ten days. Eight suspects. Six cities. Five authors. Three bodies. One trip to die for.Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series, is on a book tour along the gorgeous Amalfi Coast when life starts imitating art as her ex-boyfriend (and book protagonist) Connor Smith is targeted by a killer.
