Kniha známeho publicistu a spisovateľa Mariana Jaslovského približuje osobnosť geniálneho hudobníka Mariána Vargu tak blízko, ako sa len dá. Jaslovský spolu s Vargovou manželkou Janou vyspovedali asi tridsiatku priateľov, členov rodiny a spolupracovníkov z Vargovho najbližšieho okruhu.
O próze Večne je zelený, ktorá vznikala v sedemdesiatych rokoch, no prvýkrát vyšla až v roku 1989, autor povedal: „Je pravda, že o novele Večne je zelený som bol presvedčený, že nikdy nevyjde, a nielen pre režim. Možno aj vedomie, že ju nikto nebude čítať, spôsobilo, že sa mi písala báječne, uvoľnene.
Poviedková zbierka, ktorá prvý raz vyšla v roku 1986, pokrýva všetky Slobodove témy: vzťahy medzi mužom a ženou, otcom a synom, vzťah v pracovnom kolektíve i v rodine. Navonok sa poviedky javia ako humorné, no v skutočnosti sú vážne, odkrývajú vnútorné stavy a zážitky človeka tej doby.
Dejiny sa najlepšie píšu prostredníctvom ľudských príbehov a príbeh šľachtického rodu Friesenhof Oldenburg, ktorý žil v 19. až 20. storočí v kaštieli v Brodzanoch, stojí za rozpovedanie.
Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel.Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire is one of the hottest science fiction debuts around. For those who loved Ann Leckie's epic space opera Ancillary Justice, Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth and Iain M. Banks's Culture novels.Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award.Shortlisted for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards.
'"I thought it might be fun for people to be able to a read a neuroscience book on the beach," Barrett explains. But be warned: you may find your world turned upside down before it is time for cocktails.' - Guardian'Each lesson will enlighten and unsettle you.
A novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here, and why life isn't quite how she imagined it was going to be. And who is desperately trying to figure it all out when everyone around them is making gluten-free brownies. Meet Nell.Her life is a mess. In a world of perfect Instagram lives, she feels like a f**k up.
'A fascinating exploration of how we learned what matter really is, and the journey matter takes from the Big Bang, through exploding stars, ultimately to you and me.' - Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
The Earthquake Bird is Susanna Jones's stunning, prize-winning first mystery - now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander.Winner of the CWA New Blood Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of the YearWinner of the John Llewellyn Rhys PrizeEarly this morning, several hours before my arrest, I was woken by an earth tremor. I mention the incident not to suggest that there was a connection. . .
'Destined to be a classic' Sunday Independent'Gabriel Byrne tells his story brilliantly' - Edna O'Brien'Dazzles with unflinching honesty' Washington Post'An absolutely marvellous book' - Colm ToibinBorn to working-class parents and the eldest of six children, Gabriel Byrne harboured a childhood desire to become a priest.
'Riveting . . . Honnold is neither crazy nor reckless. Alone on the Wall reveals him to be an utterly unique and extremely appealing young man' - Jon Krakauer, bestselling author of Into the Wild.This updated edition contains the account of Alex's El Capitan climb, which is the subject of the Oscar and BAFTA winning documentary, Free Solo.
For a decade, while she was Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy gifted her thousands of readers an illustrated poem every Christmas, transporting them in one year to a seventeenth-century festival on the frozen Thames, in another to Western Front to witness the famous 1914 truce, then to a sweet winter's night in the South of France with Pablo Picasso and his small dog.
The global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller and artist finally tells the unfiltered story of her life in The Meaning of Mariah Carey. It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir.
'A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.' GUARDIAN With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose.
'Action-packed SF adventure that zings along at hyperluminal speed' - Peter F. HamiltonGoodreads Choice Award for Best Science Fiction NovelTo Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a masterful epic science fiction novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini.
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . .
'An apocalyptic novel for our times' - Guardian'Horrifyingly resonant' - ObserverSuperbowl Sunday, 2022. A couple wait in their Manhattan apartment for their final dinner guests to arrive. The game is about it start.The missing guests' flight from Paris should have landed by now. Suddenly, screens go blank. Phones are dead.Is this the end of civilization?
Evoking the golden age of crime, and for fans of Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie, comes the second book in the Aloysius Archer series, A Gambling Man from one of the world's bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci.A lucky roll of the diceCalifornia, 1949. Aloysius Archer is on his way to start a new job with a renowned Private Investigator in Bay Town.
From the bestselling author of The Librarian of Auschwitz, Antonio Iturbe, comes a captivating historical novel based on a true story - the extraordinary life and mysterious death of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince. Writer. Romantic. Pilot. Hero. All Antoine de Saint Exupery wants to do is be a pilot.
With a new introduction from the author, discover the secrets to a perfect TED Talk and learn how to deliver an exceptional presentation with Carmine Gallo's Talk Like TED. 'Talk Like TED is a smart, practical book that will teach you how to give a kick-butt presentation. But Gallo goes deeper than mere instruction.