Autor: Jim Crace
Alfred Busi, famed and beloved in his town for his music and songs, is now in his sixties, mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days alone in the large villa he has always called home. The night before he is due ...
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Autor: Lottie Moggach
When Leila discovers the Web site Red Pill, she feels she has finally found people who understand her. A sheltered young woman raised by her mother, Leila has often struggled to connect with the girls at school; but on Red Pill, a chat ...
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When beloved high school student Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no one in her sleepy Colorado suburb is untouched - not the boy who loved her too much; not the girl who wanted her perfect life; not the police officer assigned to ...
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Autor: Jacob Polley
Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.Jackself is the fourth collection from one of Britain's finest poets, and sees Jacob Polley at the height of his powers. In one of the most original books of poetry to appear in the last ...
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When sixty-eight-year-old Vietnam War veteran David Granger wakes up from emergency surgery, he finds himself repeating a name: Clayton Fire Bear, a soldier from whom he stole something long ago. And now, David knows he must make amends. It ...
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Zábavný a magický příběh o vztahu spisovatele a jeho fiktivní múzy. ...
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Fantastický román o osudech kupecké rodiny na pozadí Amsterodamu sedmnáctého století, kdy toto město patřilo k nejbohatším a nejvlivnějším centrům své doby. ...
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Román s kriminální zápletkou je zasazen do prostředí bývalých cirkusových hvězd v Americe druhé poloviny 19. století. ...
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Cities of the Plain, the final volume of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, binds together the separate tales of John Grady Cole from All the Pretty Horses and Billy Parham from The Crossing to create a more realistic Billy and a more ...
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Autor: Raven Leilani
Debutový román je příběhem černošky Edie, která naváže neobvyklý vztah s rodinou Erica, žijícího v otevřeném manželství a s adoptovanou dcerou. ...
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Autor: Judith Flanders
– 'Marvellous . . . I read it with astonished delight . . . It is equally scholarly and entertaining.' –Jan Morris 'Quirky and compelling.' –The Times – One we've learned it as children few of us think much of the ...
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– ’I can’t recall us ever talking about anything other than eels and how to best catch them, down there by the stream. Actually, I can’t remember us speaking at all. Maybe because we never did.’ – The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one ...
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Autor: Clive Thompson
'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' - David Grann, author of The ...
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Autor: David Nott
‘Brave, compassionate and inspiring – it left me in floods of tears’ Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as ...
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'[A] fascinating, incisive account of how the human brain evolved to keep us orientated . . . Beautifully written and researched.' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding The physical world is ...
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