With introductions by Margaret Atwood and David Bradshaw. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are ...
Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the dice. However, to realise his ambitions within the Adult industries, Sick Boy ...
One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy a grief he wants to ...
The Reinvention of Humanity tells the story of a small circle of renegade scientist-explorers who changed something profound: what it means to be normal. In the early twentieth century, these pioneering anthropologists, most of them women, ...
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that ...
JO NESBO: #1 Sunday Times bestseller, #1 New York Times bestseller, 40 million books sold worldwide He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the ...
It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them ...
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly ...
Audra has finally left her abusive husband. She’s taken the family car and her young children, Sean and Louise, are buckled up in the back. This is their chance for a fresh start. Audra keeps to the country roads to avoid attention. Then ...
Nejnovější Murakamiho kniha vypráví o vztazích poznamenaných nedorozuměním, nevěrou či proradností. Sedm povídek sbírky spojuje téma osamění mužů, kteří za různých okolností ztratili ženu nebo o ni nenávratně přicházejí. Murakami vykreslil ...
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen. ...
A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the Year .Winner of the Bord Gais Novel of the Year. Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms - to ...
Now a major BBC series Have you ever illegally downloaded a DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam? Organised crime is part of all our worlds - often without us even knowing. McMafia is a journey through the new world of international ...
Hluboce osobní, intimní konverzace o hudbě a psaní mezi mezinárodně uznávaným japonským spisovatelem H. Murakamim a jeho blízkým přítelem dirigentem S. Ozawou, jenž stál mj. v čele Bostonského symfonického orchestru. Kniha vznikala přepisem ...
Six weeks to write for your life... In this blistering story of a ghostwriter haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner turns to lies, crime and literature with devastating effect A young and penniless writer, Kif ...
V jedenáctém díle bestsellerové norské krimisérie se svérázný, teď už bývalý detektiv Harry Hole ještě jednou vrací k aktivnímu vyšetřování, když se v norské metropoli objeví série vražd seznámeníchtivých žen. V Oslu dojde rychle po sobě k ...
