Beletria, alebo aj prozaické umelecké dielo, prináša do našich životov nové príbehy, vzrušenie i zážitok, ktorý pre nás napísal autor a pred našimi očami ho nakreslila naša vlastná fantázia. Klasická anglická literatúra prináša nezabudnuteľné príbehy Williama Shakespaera či Jane Austenovej. Knihy po anglicky a príbehy ukryté na ich stránkach nám nielenže rozjasňujú dni a vytŕhajú nás z každodennej nudnej rutiny, ale rovnako nás nútia aktívne premýšľať nad vetnými konštrukciami a pomáhajú nám v zdokonaľovaní sa v cudzom jazyku.
A beautiful, moving collection of short stories, in many of which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age. In ''''Fiftieth'''' old friends reconnect at a class reunion, and one of them is left wondering, ''''What does it mean: the enormity of having been children ...
Ak hľadáte dotykové leporelo pre najmenšie deti, siahnite po knihe Baby´s very first touchy – feely Animals book. Ako už názov napovedá, hlavnú úlohu v nej zohrávajú najobľúbenejšie detské postavičky – zvieratká. Roztomilé ilustrácie Angličanky Stelly Baggot si bábätká ihneď obľúbia. Pripomínajú totižto ...
It''s the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit ...
Case Histories continues a winning streak for Kate Atkinson which began when her impressive novel Behind the Scenes at the...
Best mates Sandie, Emily and Grazia thought they\''d be friends forever, but they reckoned without the dividing effects of men and money.Shopping guru Sandie is on a roll, with a baby on the way and Toby, her posh totty partner, proposing every five minutes. But when she realises the legendary Garnett\''s ...
India. 1879. Lieutenant John Howard witnesses something so unspeakable it changes him for ever. His subsequent disappearance is never solved. Egypt. Present day. Marine archaeologist Jack Howard makes an astonishing discovery on a deep-sea dive. What\''s the connection? Jack Howard doesn\''t know yet. ...
Kniha - autor Matias Faldbakken, 216 stran, česky, Pevná bez přebalu lesklá.Román vypráví číšník fiktivní kavárny v Oslu, již kdysi založil Angličan Hill. Číšník je postava záhadná, nedozvíme se o něm nic, ani jeho jméno, jen to, že, jak sám na sebe prozradí, je hypersenzitivní. Svým profesionálním okem ...
April 29th:Krantu is a good way off the coast of Sarawak, a Malaysian island. No one lives on Krantu anymore and it\''ll soon sink into the sea. May 2nd:This is just like when I went on digs. Dad is up to his eyeballs in work. June 4th: He put the edges of the scrolls near to each other. What happened ...
Invalided out of the army at barely twenty, Jackson Small returns to England traumatised by the violent death of his fellow soldier and blood-brother Connolly. Unable to settle and incapacitated by grief, Jackson sets off on a lunatic quest, back to the Peruvian jungle in search of something he cannot ...
Tom’s a funny genius. But does it run in the family, or is Tom just a talented oddball? Find out in this nutty book, which includes EXCELLENT activity pages! Mr Fullerman – Tom’s grumpy teacher – has set the class a new assignment: making a family tree! Is Tom just a random stroke of genius? Or were ...
Empathy and ecstasy An homage to Africa''s people and wildlife Sebastiao Salgado is one the most respected photojournalists working today, his reputation forged by decades of dedication and powerful black-and-white images of dispossessed and distressed people taken in places where most wouldn’t dare ...
FROM THE WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE. This is the story of a boy named Kester. He has brought the animals of his world back from the brink of disaster, and he believes there is hope on the other side. And, he might just be right. The final heart-stopping instalment of the Dark Wild ...
As darkness settles on a forgotten castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, two men sit down to a final meal together. They have not seen one another in forty-one years. At their last meeting, in the company of a beautiful woman, an unspoken a ct of betrayal left all three lives shattered and ...
It''s a summer of record-breaking heat in Charlotte, North Carolina and Dr Temperance Brennan is looking forward to her first vacation in years. She''s almost out the door when the bones start appearing. First there''s the newborn skeleton found in a wo od stove. Who put the baby there? The mother, hardly ...
The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester.
