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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 Sunday Times bestseller ‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon…' This is the way …

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction.

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making - from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.

Václav Havel claimed to want a quiet life dedicated to writing, but he lived exactly the opposite: as the most famous dissident in Czechoslovakia under Communist rule, he spent many years in jail as …

Satira Ishmaela Reeda. Od nestandardní sexuality k argumentaci Tato kniha se zaměřuje na tvorbu afroamerického spisovatele Ishmaela Reeda a sleduje, jak se napříč jeho padesátiletou románovou tvorbou …

Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller Elizabeth is Missing is the stunning, smash-hit debut novel from new author Emma Healey Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2014 Shortlisted for National Book Awards …

Bestselling Norwegian mystery author Jo Nesbo enters the world of children's books with Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder, the first book in this very funny middle-grade series.

From the author of the no. 1 bestseller Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind The Theory of Everything.

This is the first ever in-depth interpretation of Czech Action Art as a vast and very original stream of Czech post-war art within the context of the region’s complex socio-political history.

Básník, prozaik, dramatik a publicista Viktor Dyk se v této novele (časopisecky 1911–1912, knižně 1915) inspiroval starou saskou pověstí, již použil jako volný rámec pro vyprávění o tajemném poutníkovi, …

Using an innovative approach, these 13 comic strips narrate the destinies of people who in the battle against totalitarian power either morally triumph or succumb to their weaknesses.

Během století žili židé v Rusku s mnohými jazyky: vlastním jidiš, hebrejštinou a aramejštinou, stejně jako oficiální ruštinou, která se používala ve školách a na univerzitách.

A dazzling tale of cultural identity and displacement, this is the story of a man's escape from his native Zanzibar to England to build a new life By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021** …

Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well.

Brighton, 1950. When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl.

Už po více než tři staletí odměřují čas na bývalém hradčanském předměstí zvonky zavěšené v lucerně štíhlé světlé věže s měděnou cibulovitou střechou.

The theme of socio-spatial differentiation has belonged to the core issues of social geography and urban studies for a long time.

In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary …

What would you do to protect your family? When Paul Rogan sets off a bomb at his office, killing eleven people, no one can understand why.

'This book is it: one of the best debut novels (and novels, period) of recent years' Elle 'The next big thing...

Now in paperback, the eighth book of the bestselling Rivers of London series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of …

Is a rainforest as lively at night as it is during the day? Which creatures use natural camouflage to blend in during the day and which ones wake up after dark?

Cizopasné hlístice (Nematoda) představují jednu z nejvýznamnějších skupin rybích parazitů.

An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society When a recklessly idealistic girl in a dystopian future society dares to test the perimeters …

Publikace shrnuje příspěvky z mezinárodního workshopu konaného v listopadu 2011 v Praze.

The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved cult classic about family, friendship and first love, from award-winning author Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home.

From #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones: Nightflyers, coming to television on SyFy, is an epic story of space exploration and cosmic horror, plus five George R.

The devil's neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn't exist. Giovanni Papini It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and pervades this tragicomic novel of anxiety and evil …

Björk, Dr Seuss, Whoopi Goldberg, Andy Warhol, Ellen MacArthur, Greta Gerwig, Andrea Bocelli, Hua Mulan ... these are men and women who all dared to be different.