In the Beauty of the Lilies (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

In the Beauty of the Lilies (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Taking its title from the 'Battle Hymn of the Republic', this work traces one family's profound journey through four generations - and across the spiritual landscape of twentieth-century

Witches of Eastwick (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Poorhouse Fair (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair. The elderly residents take pride in the self-respect they gain from this one day. But when the fair goes less well than the folks had hoped, they blame Conner, the new prefect of the home

Rabbit Redux (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

In 1969, the times are changing in America. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife leaves him, and suddenly, into his confused life comes Jill, a runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (Updike John)(Paperback)

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT

Villages (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Widows of Eastwick (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

When the three witches - now old, remarried and widowed - decide to go back to Eastwick to spend a summer together, many things have changed. Darryl Van Horne is gone. Their husbands and lovers have gone. The lithe and supple bodies with which they wrecked marriages and wreaked havoc many years

Complete Henry Bech (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Henry Bech, the celebrated author of 'Travel Light', has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. This work explores the writing life and what happens when a writer becomes a literary

Month of Sundays (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in

Brazil (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's

Clean Beauty (Minarovic Dominika)(Paperback / softback)

CLEAN BEAUTY. Discover the delights of making your own beauty products in the comfort of your own home. The London-based Clean Beauty Co are leading the way with luxury beauty recipes packed full of only the good

Olinger Stories (Updike John)(Pevná vazba)

In an interview, Updike once said, 'If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories.' They follow the life of one character from the age of ten through manhood, in the small Pennsylvania town of Olinger (pronounced, according to Updike, with a long O and a hard G), which

Of the Farm (Updike John)(Paperback)

In this short novel, Joey Robinson, a thirty-five-year-old New Yorker, describes a visit he makes, with his second wife and eleven-year-old stepson, to the Pennsylvania farm where he grew up and where his aging mother now lives alone. For three days, a quartet of voices explores the air, making

Terrorist (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Deals with one of America's issues - threat of Islamist terror from within. It also suggests ways in which we can counter it, in our words and our

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (O'Donohue John)(Paperback)

The author of Anam Cara describes, in his unique style, rediscovering the true sources of compassion, serenity, and hope in our lives In this eagerly awaited follow-up to his international bestsellers Anam Cara and Eternal Echoes, John O'Donohue turns his attention to the subject of beauty--the

Secrets of The Krays - My Life in The Firm (Dickson John)(Paperback / softback)

Of Mice and Men - Barrington Stoke Edition (Steinbeck John)(Paperback / softback)

A superb story of power and beauty, critically acclaimed across the world and now available in an accessible, super-readable format with dyslexia-friendly features, for all

In a Different Key - The Story of Autism (Donvan John)(Paperback / softback)

Dementia - Living in the Memories of God (Swinton John)(Paperback / softback)

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

'Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.' -- John Updike The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew

Florence and Giles (Harding John)(Paperback / softback)

A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of

My Life With John Steinbeck - The story of John Steinbeck's forgotten wife(Paperback / softback)

For the first time the story of John Steinbeck's forgotten second wife unmentioned in standard editions of his classics such as The Grapes of Wrath. Their 1943 war time marriage ended when she divorced him in 1948. Smart, adventurous and in love, she at first matched Steinbeck's zest for 'on the

Mad Enchantment - Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies (King Ross)(Paperback / softback)

Tested by fire - The Fruit Of Affliction In The Lives Of John Bunyan, William Cowper And David Brainerd (Piper John (Author))(Paperback / softback)