Portrait of the writer
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Island at the Center of the World
A richly nuanced portrait of the unknown history of New York City.
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Lucy by the Sea: From the Booker-shortlisted author of Oh William! - Stroutová Elizabeth
Anotace: `A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own` Hilary Mantel FROM THE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR `It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us`In March 2020 Lucy Barton`s ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agre...
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One of the Good Guys
The blistering feminist thriller from critically acclaimed writer Araminta Hall.
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The Song Of Names
Soundtrack k filmu The Song Of Names (Píseň jmen) oskarového skladatele filmové hudby Howarda Shorea. Obsah alba: 1. The Song of Names for Violin and Cantor 2. London Debut 3. They Have To Be Told 4. Play for the Ashes 5. For His Father 6. Bieyeling 7. Paganini: Capriee for Solo Violin No.9 "La Chasse" 8. Warsaw 1986 9. Family Portrait 10. The Asylum 11. Synagogue 1947 ...
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From the Mouth of the Whale
The highly-acclaimed novel by Iceland's internationally renowned writer Sjn - 'an extraordinary and original writer' A.S. Byatt - in a stunning new p
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A Woman of Pleasure - Murata Kiyoko
Anotace: `Only Kiyoko Murata can convey this world` YOKO OGAWA, author of The Memory Police, Yomiuri ShibunThe year is 1903, and tenacious and spirited Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan, becoming the protegee of Shinonome, the oiran, or the highest-ranking courtesan.Through Shinonome`s teachings, fifteen-year-old Ichi begins to understand ...
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To the End of the World
The extraordinary and outrageous memoir from award-winning writer and actor Rupert Everett
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To the End of the World
The extraordinary and outrageous memoir from award-winning writer and actor Rupert Everett
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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon - Lewis Michael
Anotace: From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century`s most spectacular financial collapses `I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. "One hundred and fifty billion dollars," he f...
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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food - Dunlop Fuchsia
Anotace: `A brilliant, passionate and spellbinding tour de force` Claudia Roden`Fuchsia Dunlop is one of the world`s best writers on Chinese food` Ken Hom CBE The epic tale of the world`s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishesChinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn ...
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Music in the Age of the Renaissance
A richly detailed portrait of the music and surrounding culture in one of history's most creative eras.
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Mythology of the World, Illustrated Encyclopedia of
A volume of unprecedented scale from one of the most respected academic and writer on comparative mythology, sumptuously illustrated throughout.
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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home: ´The most irresistible contemporary American writer.´ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - Lorrie Moore
<p>'America's first lady of darkness and mirth.' Guardian'The best American writer of her generation.' Nick Hornby 'Unmissable.' Marie ClaireFrom one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise.High up in a New York City hospice, Finn sits with his beloved brother Max, who is slipping f...
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Kitchen In The Corner Of The House
Twenty-five gem-like stories on motherhood, sexuality, and the body from an innovative Tamil writer.
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Confession of a Child of the Century
Offering a vivid, opulent portrayal of obsession and despair, this title is also a philosophical portrait of a man and his times, expressing the faile
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Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft is an iconic writer for feminism and modern culture. Her best-known work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Story of Looking
An investigation into the elements of looking, combining art and science and painting a portrait of our culture, by the critically-acclaimed writer an
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Ocean at the End of the Lane
From New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman, comes a novel of memory, magic and survival, about the power of stories and the d
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In the Teeth of the Evidence
The fourteenth book in the classic British detective series featuring amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, with a new introduction by crime writer Eliza
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Under The Eye Of The Clock
A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats. 'A book of sheer wonder. As an author he competes
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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Film Tie-in (Book 1 of Percy Jackson) - Riordan Rick
Anotace: The Lightning Thief: the first book in Rick Riordan`s Percy Jackson series.Look, I didn`t want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek god. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That`s when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time f...
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Story of Looking
An investigation into the elements of looking, combining art and science and painting a portrait of our culture, by critically-acclaimed writer and fi
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Donald Trump and me
An irreverent diary by a British writer of Donald Trump's presidency
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Fisherman of the Inland Sea
Eight SF stories from Ursula Le Guin'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER
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Sweet Indifference of the World
A miniature masterpiece from acclaimed writer Peter Stamm, in which he asks unsettling questions about destiny and desire.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
In this melodramatic tale of the American Old West, Grey expresses through a vivid portrait of the natural world those emotions and passions which the
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Secret History of the Blitz
A brilliantly researched, lively and colourful portrait of how we behaved in Britain's cities during the darkest days of the Blitz
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Great Bristol High Street
The Great Bristol High Street. A unique shop-by-shop portrait photo book of Europe's longest independent high street.
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God of the Left Hemisphere
Explores the connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of
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The Soul of an Entrepreneur
An award-winning business writer dismantles the myths of entrepreneurship, replacing them with an essential story about the experience of real busines
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Place of the White Heron
By renowned Chicano writer and scholar Alejandro Morales, this novel is a parable for the twenty-first century, an allegory of the violence, racism, a
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House of the Rising Sun
New York Times bestseller and 'one of the finest crime writer's America has ever produced' James Lee Burke returns with his latest masterpiece, the st
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Misadventures of the New Satan
This is the last novel by Estonia's greatest twentieth-century writer, Anton Tammsaare, and it constitutes a fitting summation of the themes that occu
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Story of the Treasure Seekers
Edith Nesbit was a hugely influential writer whose books include The Railway Children and Five Children and It. The Bastable Series is ripe for redisc
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Life and Deeds of the Famous Gentleman Don Catrin de la Fachenda
Don CatrĂn de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer JosĂ© JoaquĂn Fernández de
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Valeria: The Martyr of the Catacombs
"Valeria: The Martyr of the Catacombs-A Tale of Early Christian Life in Rome" is a classic religious history text by William Henry Withrow. The writer having made the early Christian Catacombs a special study for several years, and his larger volume on tha
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The Sport of Kings (0008173311)
Kniha - autor C. E. Morgan, 560 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá An American myth and a contemporary portrait of the scars of the past that run through a family, and of our desperate need to escape our history, to subsume it with pleasure - or to rise above it with glory. A spiralling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The SPORT OF KINGS is an unf...
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Banzeiro Okoto
A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest. Eliane Brum reveals the direct links
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Man who Would be Sherlock
This book tells the story of the extraordinary link between actual murder and the greatest detective story writer of all time.
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History of the Human Brain
In A History of the Human Brain, popular science writer Bret Stetka reveals how the evolution of the brain made us human—and where it may lead us to
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Dark Night of the Soul
This book contains Pamela's personal story of the deepest crisis she ever experienced in her life. Successful as a writer and spiritual therapist, she was confronted first with illness, then with insomnia and fear, and ultimately with depression and psy
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Of Time and the River
It is 1920 and Eugene Gant leaves the American South for Harvard, New York and Europe, determined to make his way as a writer. On the boat home, he me
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This Won't Help
Unravel societyÂ’s great hypocrisies while laughing at their absurdity, with this collection of short, satirical essays from humour writer Eli Grober.
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The Power of the Powerless - Václav Havel
<p>Václav Havel’s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer’s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves? Written in 1978, Václav H...
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The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer
<p>A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAX PORTER WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013 WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2014 'Dark, touching, sweet and funny and beautifully w...
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The End of Eddy (0099598469)
Kniha - 192 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Edouard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there, The End of Eddy, has sparked debate on social inequality, sexuality and violence.It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood, inspired by the auth...
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Agatha Christie: Radio 4 Book of the Week - Worsleyová Lucy
Anotace: ** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **`A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse`- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR`A riveting portrait` - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***`Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.` - The Times`A model of how to combine biographical information, analy...
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Agatha Christie: Radio 4 Book of the Week - Lucy Worsleyová
<p>** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times'A model of how to combine biographical information, analys...
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings - Plathová Sylvia
Anotace: Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other people`s dreams.An office assistant in a hospital pursues a secret vocation. A girl endures a series of initiation ceremonies to join her high school sorority. A married woman seeks relief from the dull realities of daily life. From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stori...
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Fight Night: ´A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering´ Observer - Toewsová Miriam
Anotace: FROM THE WRITER OF THE OSCAR-WININNG WOMEN TALKINGINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD`Go Grandma Elvira!` Margaret Atwood`Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.` The New Yorker`Glorious.` Sarah Moss____________You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she`s suspended from ...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
A good portrait is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. I am afraid I show my soul in this painting.’ Tag Fantasy In this Reader you will find: - Information about Oscar Wilde’s life - Sections focusing on background and context - Glossary of difficult words - Comprehension activities - PET-style activities - Exit test Late nineteenth-century London: a city of contra...
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Little Book of Ernest Hemingway
Packed full of quotes and facts about Hemingway's life and work, this little book creates a portrait of the complex man behind the writer.
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Power Of the Powerless - neuveden
Anotace: Vaclav Havel`s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer`s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves? Written in 1978, Vaclav...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Audiokniha MP3 Oscar Wilde, čte Rodilý mluvčí Audiokniha The Picture of Dorian Gray namluvená rodilým mluvčím. Jazyková úroveň B1 pro středně pokročilé posluchače. Late nineteenth-century London: a city of contrasts. Great wealth and terrible poverty, beauty and ugliness, purity and immorality. Oscar Wilde takes the reader into this strange and fascinating world throu...
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The Little Book of H. P. Lovecraft - Hippo! Orange
<p>As well as quotes from those who knew him, this celebration includes samples from HP Lovecraft's poems, letters and other writings – painting a full portrait of this master of his chosen genre, horror.</p> <p>Howard Phillips Lovecraft had a short life, and he died of cancer in 1936 at the age of 46. But in that relatively short time he had a significa...
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Unstoppable: The Ultimate Biography of Max Verstappen - Hughes Mark
Anotace: A definitive and intriguing biography of Max Verstappen, Formula 1`s superstar, Lewis Hamilton`s great rival and the winner of the 2021 and 2022 World Drivers` Championships.No Hollywood scriptwriter could possibly have envisioned the breathless, adrenaline-pumping climax to the 2021 Formula 1 season. On the very last lap of the final race of an unbelievably ard...
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Writing
Celebrated writer Marguerite Duras on the artistic process
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The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1. vydání - Oscar Wilde
<p>Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian’s own face. The stage is now...
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Laziness in the Fertile Valley
A portrait of a family of proud layabouts who avoid work and sleep all day by the Egyptian writer often referred to as "the Voltaire of the Nile"
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