When I Was Mortal (Marias Javier)(Paperback / softback)

When I Was Mortal (Marias Javier)(Paperback / softback)

A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pain makes himself the subject of his experiments. A voyeur mistakes a murderer for a fellow peeping tom... these are some of the characters observed by

Berta Isla (Marias Javier)(Paperback / softback)

Venice, An Interior (Marias Javier)(Paperback / softback)

Written Lives (Marias Javier)(Paperback / softback)

Revealing that Conrad actually hated sailing and Emily Bronte was so tough she was known as 'The Major', among many other stories of eccentricity, drunkenness and even murder, this book uses unusual angles and peculiar details to illuminate writers' lives in a new

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2 - Dance and Dream (Marias Javier)(Paperback / softback)

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1 - Fever and Spear (Marias Javier)(Paperback / softback)

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3 - Poison, Shadow and Farewell (Marias Javier)(Paperback / softback)

Vzpomínej na mě zítra při bitvě - Javier Marías

Javier Marías (nar. 1951) patří k největším objevům nastupující spisovatelské generace ve Španělsku. Vycházet začal v polovině 80. let a mezinárodní věhlas mu přinesly dva romány z 90. let. Román Vzpomínej na mě zítra při bitvě vtáhne čtenáře do děje již první

Infatuations (Marias Javier)(Paperback / softback)

Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely

All Souls (Marias Javier)(Paperback / softback)

The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer. As they begin an affair, meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare's husband, the Spaniard finds himself increasingly drawn into the strange world of

Heart so White (Marias Javier)(Paperback / softback)

In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her

Dark Back of Time (Marias Javier)(Paperback / softback)

'We lose everything because everything remains except us'. In this book, the author recalls the strange events and people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child and the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question

Spanish (Javier Francisco)(Paperback / softback)

Mortal Engines (Lem Stanislaw)(Paperback / softback)

The Mortal Storm (Bottome Phyllis)(Paperback)

A highly acclaimed anti-fascist novel, The Mortal Storm was Phyllis Bottome's dramatic warning against the warmongering, antisemitism, and misogyny of the Nazis. The story pits the developing political and feminist consciousness of Freya Roth against the Nazi machine that will destroy the fabric of

Impostor (Cercas Javier)(Paperback / softback)

A true story packed with fiction, from the admired Spanish writer, Javier

Darkling Plain (Reeve Philip)(Paperback / softback)

In the time of MORTAL ENGINES, London was once feared across the wastelands. Now it's a poisoned, lifeless wreck. But Tom and Wren believe the city may hide a secret at its heart that could bring an end to the war. The fourth book in the award-winning MORTAL ENGINES

When She Was Good (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail. Since then, Lucy has become a furious adolescent - raging against middle-class life and provincial American piety - intent on reforming the men around her: especially her incompetent mama's boy of a

Writer's Notebook (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and

This Vicious Cure (Mortal Coil Book 3) (Suvada Emily)(Paperback / softback)

My Brother's Ghost (Ahlberg Allan)(Paperback / softback)

When Frances Foggarty was nine her ten-year-old brother, Tom, was hit by a milk-float and killed. He returns after the funeral and Frances' story is of her new relationship with Tom, the ghost and 'guardian angel'. Frances wears a caliper as a result of polio and she and her young brother live with

Antigone (Anouilh Jean)(Paperback / softback)

'Antigone' was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's central character, the young Antigone, mirrored the predicament of the French people in the grips of tyranny. One of the

Orators (Auden W.H.)(Paperback / softback)

When The Orators was originally published in 1932 it was described by Poetry Review as 'something as important as the appearance of Mr Eliot's poems fifteen years ago'. A long poem written in both prose and verse, it was a powerful addition to the canon of modernist

When Christ and His Saints Slept (Penman Sharon)(Paperback / softback)

Stephen was handsome, unreliable and beguiling. Maude was courageous, beautiful and insanely arrogant. They fought for twenty years and devastated England. Their flair for dramatic events and immense catastrophes made sure that they were never