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The Snowman | A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Outside, he sees her favourite scarf - wrapped around the neck of a snowman. Detective Harry Hole soon discovers that an alarming number of ...

Rhyming Life and Death | An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories...

Orwell. The Life | Shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award 2003 'Definitive' Daily Telegraph Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Even the ...

Eat A Peach. A Chef's Memoir | The celebrated chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious gets uncomfortably real in his New York Times bestselling memoir. In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar o...

Sacred Nature. How we can recover our bond with the natural world | In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental catastrophe...

Reading in the Dark | This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue...

Empress Dowager Cixi | Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vivid...

Baltasar & Blimunda | An intense and surreal romance set against the politics of eighteenth-century Lisbon from Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a...

A Perfect Peace | 'Prophetic... a novelist of stature and wisdom' - Daily Telegraph 'Evocative and penetrating. Oz handles his narrative with great agility' Sunday Times One day a man may just pick up...

Suddenly In the Depths of the Forest | In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animal...

Coot Club | ‘Let fly jib sheet! Slack away main! Fenders out!’ Dick and Dorothea – also known as The Ds – arrive in Norfolk all ready to learn how to sail. They couldn’t hope for a better teacher than...

The Iliad | Read this stunning translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss and revenge during the fall of the city of Troy. High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled ...

Therapy | A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physioth...

Invisible. The History of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics | If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhap...

Fatherhood | Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads. How to be a good father? Children’s birthday parties, unsuccessful family holid...

Language | Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly...

The Practice of Writing | In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the mo...

Here and Gone | Her fresh start is about to turn into a nightmare… 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...

No Highway | Read this classic uplifting, moving and heartwarming story about life in the face of the cold war. Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in qu...

War and Turpentine | Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New York Times Shortly before his death, Stefan Hertm...

The Blacker the Berry | Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. 'Why not? She's just as a good as the rest, and you kn...

Warlight | London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents who leave the country on business, and are left in ...

As You Were | Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. Sh...

Hame | Hame, n. Scottish form of ‘home’: a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin After her relationship breaks down, Mhairi McPhail dismantles her life in New York and moves with her ni...

A Rising Man | India, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta's police force. He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The...

Don Quixote | Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight...

The Ghost Riders of Ordebec | ‘People will die,’ says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision...

The Complete Novels | The complete novels of one of the greatest German writers of all time, collected together in one literary masterpiece. Kafka's characters are victims of forces beyond their contr...

The Soul of Discretion | Simon Serrailler faces his most dangerous challenge yet in the edge-of-your-seat thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. Going undercover, he m...

The Second Plane. September 11, 2001-2007 | Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over ...

Psychedelics | Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what wou...

Teach Us to Sit Still. A Sceptic's Search Health and Healing | How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are? What effect does it have on our relationships,...

The Warden | The first book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles is a moving, insightful exploration of moral dilemmas fought in public and private. Mr Harding is a good man, the warden to an a...

Diaboliad | The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakov's breath...

The Origin of Species | Discover this beautiful special edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking theory on human evolution. When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on ...

Wilkie Collins | Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he ...

The Chequer Board | John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very different men he met briefly during t...

Morgan's Passing | Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's funny and uplifting exploration of what it is to be an outsider. Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, a...

Foreign Affairs | 'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' Guardian Vinnie Miner is an American professor of children's literature...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | An adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and the renegade scientist Captain Nemo. Professor Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down and des...

The Cranford Chronicles | In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of migrant workers and the breakdown of law and ...

Bagombo snuff box | Издание полностью на английском языке. Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago, a young PR man at General Electric sold his first short story to one o...

The Bridge on the River Kwai | The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sac...

Jacobs Room | Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in...

The Wall | A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off t...

Harnessing Peacocks | A single mother's scandalous past returns to complicate the present in this deftly-plotted comedy by the beloved Mary Wesley. Hebe sits in the darkness and listens to her hypocri...

Bodies | A darkly powerful and blackly funny expose of the horrors of life as a junior doctor, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty Inside every hospital exists a world n...

Utz | Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality thr...

Mapp and Lucia | Battle is joined! Relish the underhand schemes and plots that unfold as Lucia vyes with Miss Mapp for social dominion over the town of Tilling. Look out for the new BBC adaptation sta...

Strange Shores | A missing woman. A missing boy. Detective Erlendur returns - for the last time A young woman walks into the frozen fjords of Iceland, never to be seen again. But Matthildur leaves in ...

Death at Intervals | In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humani...

The Old Man and the Sea | 'The best story Hemingway has written. No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently' Sunday Times If you loved BBC4's Hemingway , read the...

Mud and Stars. Travels in Russia | A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev. Shortlisted For The ...

Most Secret | In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German army after the f...

Blowout. Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Eart | A ground-breaking investigation into the oil and gas industry, international corruption and world...

Tender Is the Night | It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming youn...

The Journals | John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved wom...

The Literature Machine | 'Brilliant-a feast' Guardian 'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time-...

The Ascent Of Rum Doodle | An English comic novel about a World War II expedition to a Himalayan peak. An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, The Ascent of Rum ...

The Rachel Papers | Charles Highway is every mother’s worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding gir...

Welcome to the Monkey House and Palm Sunday | A selection of the best sci-fi shorts from an American genius of the genre, collected alongside his most personal essays. A diabolical government asserts ...

The Mist in the Mirror | A terrifying ghost story, by the author of the The Woman in Black A terrifying ghost story by the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. One dark and rainy night, Sir James...

A Tale of Two Cities | Dickens' masterful tale of Paris, London, and revolution. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen ye...

In the Sea there are Crocodiles | In the Sea there are Crocodiles. Издание на английском языке Код номенклатуры: TBS UK. nodiscount: no. Категория: Художественная литература/Книги на иностранных языка...