The Christmasaurus returns in the magical new adventure from number-one-bestselling author Tom Fletcher!Have you ever heard of Ebenezer Scrooge? The grumpy, miserable man from that very famous old book, who HATES Christmas? The man who is more BAH HUMBUG than HO HO HO?Well, what if I told you that he was about to step out of HIS story and into this one? I know!!!
A beautiful hardback edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel. A romance, a literary quest, a modern classic. A pair of young scholars investigate the lives of two Victorian poets.Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.
Rome, 1964. As 13 year old Andre stands at the foot of the gangway to the ship, his mother fusses over their luggage - 32 suitcases, trunks and tea chests that contain their world. The ship will refuel and return to Alexandria, the home where they have left their father, as the Aciman family begin a new adventure.
Balla is often described as "the Slovak Kafka" for his depictions of the absurd and the mundane. In the Name of the Father features a nameless narrator reflecting on his life, looking for someone else to blame for his failed relationship with his parents and two sons, his serial adultery, the breakup of his marriage and his wife's descent into madness.
The moving yet humorous story of a girl struggling to care for herself and others in post-communist Slovakia. Emotionally neglected by her immature, promiscuous mother and made to care for her cantankerous dying grandmother, twelve-year-old Jarka is left to fend for herself in the social vacuum of a post-communist concrete apartment-block jungle in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Set in Slovakia, a revealing narrative about contemporary society.
Záverečný diel strhujúcej trilógie autorskej dvojice Camilla Läckberg a Henrik Fexeus. Švédskemu ministrovi spravodlivosti Niklasovi Stockenbergovi sa ktosi vyhráža smrťou. V tom istom čase sa v tuneli štokholmského metra nájde hromada ľudských kostí. Ukáže sa, že patria známemu finančníkovi.
Začne sa to krvou v havarovanom aute. Neskôr sa nájde mŕtvola, urbanista z obecnej rady spácha samovraždu a pochybný zlodejíček príde o život v dôsledku pôsobenia mágie.
Túžba cítiť sa bližšie. K niekomu, k niečomu, k sebe. Rozprávať sa. Vysloviť. Zachrániť sa. Unormálniť. Presadiť sa. Vydržať. Zažiť. Je to kríza? Rozmaznanosť? Vzdor? Alebo je všetko inak? Vtipný a smutný príbeh o hľadaní zmyslu a nájdení blízkosti na nečakaných miestach.Publikáciu z verejných zdrojov podporil Fond na podporu umenia.
A thrilling anthology of short stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Scholomance Trilogy and Uprooted, spanning each of her realms and including a sneak peak into the world of her next series.
'Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else' John PrestonFrom the author of Sunday Times #1 bestsellers COLDITZ, SAS: ROGUE HEROES and THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR . . .On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London.There they took 26 hostages, including embassy staff, visitors, and three British citizens.
