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.
The ''''Namesake'''' is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America, from ''''the kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say ''''Read this!'''' [Amy Tan] ''''When her grandmother learned of Ashima''''s pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family''''s ...
Jean Giono was born in 1895 in Manosque, Provence, and lived there most of his life. He supported his family working as a bank clerk for eighteen years before his first two novels were published, thanks to the generosity of André Gide, to critical acclaim. He went on to write thirty novels, including ...
FRANCE 1670. Carlo Demirco\''s mastery of the extraordinary new art of creating ice creams has brought him wealth, women, and a position at the court of Louis XIV. Then Carlo is sent to London, along with Louise de Keroualle, an impoverished lady-in-waiting. The most powerful ministers of two countries ...
Moving novel set during the siege of Leningrad in WWII, from the author of }The 25th Hour{, which was adapted into a successful film by Spike Lee. Benioff is a Hollywood scriptwriter.
In the past few decades many of us have become foodies, but our new focus on flavour has been dominated by what we eat. In "How to Drink" Victoria Moore aims to redress the balance, by explaining how to drink well at all times of day, on all occasions, and across every season. Here are recipes for mint ...
Michael Roman is finally living the life he always dreamed of - he has a successful career, a beautiful wife and adorable twin daughters. But his idyllic life is about to come crashing down around him - because Michael is a man with a past. A rising star in the New York District Attorney''s office and ...
Revenge in the face of bloodlust is seldom sweet.There\''s one sound a woman doesn\''t want to hear when she\''s lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl. For Cheyenne Clark, there\''s a bad moon on the rise. When a strange wolf\''s teeth slash her ankle to the bone, her old life ends, and she ...
In The Snow Tourist, Charlie English writes: "Snow is rarely, if ever, merely white. The angles and surfaces of snow crystals reflect and refract the different colours of sunlight that play upon them like the glass in a chandelier." The book has something of this, too: like individual sparkles in a homogenous ...
Suzanne Perry is having a vivid nightmare. Someone is in her bedroom, touching her, and she can''''t move a muscle. She wakes, relieved to put the nightmare behind her, but when she opens the curtains, she sees a polaroid stuck to the window. A photo of her sleeping self, taken during the night. And ...
Obsessed with death and planning his own funeral, Ken is determined to die in the bosom of his family. But it isn\''t that easy; his family don’t want to know him. His oldest son Nick left home over twenty years ago and reinvented himself. At forty, he has returned home to Kent, and found happiness with ...
Little, Brown Book Group: They were best friends, driven by one shared vision - to rule the world of virtual reality games.
Anne Rice, on top form, returns to the mesmerizing storytelling that has captivated readers for more than three decades in a dark gothic novel of suspense about assassins and angels, set in worlds past - the first in a new series called The Songs of the Seraphim.
Liam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodging issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, in his sixty-first year, something happens that jolts him out of his certainty and leaves him with a frig.
1954 hält ein Zwölfjähriger irrtümlich die Freundin des Dorfpolizisten für einen Bären - der Beginn einer jahrzehntelangen Flucht. Mit seinem Vater flieht er von New Hampshire nach Boston, von Vermont nach Toronto, der unerbittliche Polizist ihnen immer auf den Fersen. Den einzigen Schutz gewährt ihnen ...
The Sunday Times No. 1 paperback bestseller, warm and moving - another gem from the much-loved Cathy Kelly. Keep a secret too long and it will creep out when you least expect it.Behind the shining windows and rose-decked gardens of Summer Street, single mother Faye, hides a secret from her teenage daughter ...
The world-wide, mega selling author of Man and Boy is back with a sizzling, Shanghai tale of sex, romance and second wives Hot shot young lawyer Bill Holden and his wife Becca move with their four year old daughter to the booming, gold-rush city of Shanghai, a place of enormous wealth and crushing poverty, ...
''Don''t you see,'' he''d have liked to ask her, ''don''t you see, that if only you''d told me everything that first time we could have saved a life? Possibly two.'' Janek Mitter stumbles into his bathroom one morning after a night of heavy drinking, to find his beautiful young wife, Eva, floating dead ...
Ali Shirazi has arrived back in Lahore, Pakistan, to celebrate the wedding of his childhood friend and elder cousin Samar Api to her long sought-after \''Amitabh\'' - a stand-in for the Bollywood star she always dreamed of marrying. Amidst the flurry of preparations in the house in which he grew up, ...
