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The Enchanted April
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the greatest holiday novel ever written, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a drab and rainy London one April and arriving on the shores of the Mediterranean, they discover a flower-filled paradise of beauty, warmth and leisure. Joined by the beautiful Lady Caroline and domineering Mrs Fisher, also in flight from the burdens of their daily lives, the four women proceed to transform themselves and their prospects.
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Mrs Dalloway
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Woolf's great masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to give a party. Over the course of one day, as she readies her house, Clarissa is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.
Virginia Woolf started writing Mrs Dalloway in 1922 as a short story. Its publication in 1925 was met with modest commercial success but the novel went on to become one of the most vital works of literature of the last century.
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Oliver Twist
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's unforgettable novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. Dickens graphically conjures up the capital's underworld, full of sex workers, thieves and lost and homeless children, and gives a voice to the disadvantaged and abused.
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Emerald Fennell Presents: Wuthering Heights
Set against the desolate beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the all-consuming love between Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has captivated readers for centuries. When forces of class and society tear them apart, Heathcliff embarks on a bitter quest for vengeance that threatens to destroy two generations of the Linton and Earnshaw families.
This paperback is part of Simon & Schuster's Female Filmmakers Collection, a series of books thoughtfully curated by female filmmakers. Each title includes an introduction by a woman who has made an indelible impact on cinema. Celebrate over a century of female filmmaking and discover the classics-timeless and modern-that inspired the creators behind your favorite films.
Orlando
As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Woolf's delightful, boundary-pushing classic, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
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The Homemade God
Family is everything, even when it falls apart.
There is a heatwave across Europe.
Goose and his three sisters gather at the family's house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their father, a famous artist, has recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish his masterpiece. Now he is dead and there is no sign of a painting.
Although the siblings have always been close, as they search for answers over that summer, the things they learn - about themselves, their father and their new stepmother - will drive them apart before they can come to any kind of understanding of what their father's legacy truly is.
Extraordinarily compelling, at heart this is a novel about sibling relationships and those hairline cracks that can appear within a family: what what happens when they splinter, and what it would take to mend them.
Wants and Needs
Independence seems to be drifting away from Misty. Just months ago, she was living with her fiancé and planning their life together. Now she’s single, back in her childhood bedroom, on crutches from knee surgery, and relying on her mother to help her with the smallest of tasks. This isn’t how thirty-two was meant to look.
When Misty turns to dating apps, she's she’s immediately intrigued by charismatic, handsome Christopher – so intrigued that she doesn't doesn’t even notice the acronym ‘ENM’ on his profile. By the time she discovers that it stands for ‘ethical non-monogamy' – and that he’s in a long-term open relationship – she already feels such undeniable, dizzying chemistry that she decides to give things a go.
And so Misty makes a pact with herself to date Christopher for the next six weeks while his partner is away. It’s all part of her plan: she wants to learn to become less attached, and to prepare herself for her next ‘real’ relationship. But is what she wants really what she needs?
Animal Farm
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Orwell's satirical masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Mr Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, is a lazy drunk. The animals decide to overthrow him in a revolution that will allow them to run the farm, liberating themselves and creating a new life of equality and freedom. But they have underestimated the pigs. Napoleon and Snowball form an elite and take control for themselves, and the tyranny of the farmer is replaced with another kind of control leaving the animals again subject to a ruthless and cruel authority.
Imagined only as Orwell could, this powerful fable is instilled with humour and an underlying urgency that makes this one of the most prescient warnings ever written.
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Vojna a mier II (3. a 4. zväzok), 2. vydanie
Tolstoj písal Vojnu a mier v rokoch 1863 – 1869. Kompletné štvorzväzkové vydanie vyšlo v roku 1869. Dobová kritika najprv román odsúdila, ale čitateľský úspech bol obrovský. Dve vydania sa veľmi rýchlo rozpredali. V roku 1873 vyšlo tretie, podstatne prepracované vydanie, ktoré sa vydáva a vychádza v prekladoch dodnes.
Ide o klasický veľkoromán zo života ruskej spoločnosti v prvých desaťročiach 19. storočia. Popri množstve realisticky zobrazených postáv zasadených do historických udalostí plnohodnotne zobrazuje postavy generála Kutuzova a Napoleona. Nájdeme tu opis napoleonských rusko-francúzskych vojen prebiehajúcich v rokoch 1805 – 1812 (v románe je detailne opísaná bitka pri Slavkove 1805, ale aj bitka pri Borodine a francúzske obsadenie Moskvy). Hlavnými hrdinami románu sú dvaja šľachtici Andrej Bolkonský a Pierre Bezuchov, ako aj členovia rodiny Rostovovcov. Pierre Bezuchov je nositeľom Tolstého myšlienok a často veľmi výstižne hodnotí politicko-spoločenské dianie okolo seba, ako aj významné historické postavy.
Román bol niekoľkokrát úspešne sfilmovaný. V edícii Svetová klasika ODEON vychádza v druhom dvojzväzkovom vydaní.
Z ruského originálu Vojna i mir (Chudožestvenaja literatura, Moskva 1972) preložila Ružena Dvořáková-Žiaranová.
Vojna a mier I (1. a 2. zväzok), 2. vydanie
Tolstoj písal Vojnu a mier v rokoch 1863 – 1869. Kompletné štvorzväzkové vydanie vyšlo v roku 1869. Dobová kritika najprv román odsúdila, ale čitateľský úspech bol obrovský. Dve vydania sa veľmi rýchlo rozpredali. V roku 1873 vyšlo tretie, podstatne prepracované vydanie, ktoré sa vydáva a vychádza v prekladoch dodnes.
Ide o klasický veľkoromán zo života ruskej spoločnosti v prvých desaťročiach 19. storočia. Popri množstve realisticky zobrazených postáv zasadených do historických udalostí plnohodnotne zobrazuje postavy generála Kutuzova a Napoleona. Nájdeme tu opis napoleonských rusko-francúzskych vojen prebiehajúcich v rokoch 1805 – 1812 (v románe je detailne opísaná bitka pri Slavkove 1805, ale aj bitka pri Borodine a francúzske obsadenie Moskvy). Hlavnými hrdinami románu sú dvaja šľachtici Andrej Bolkonský a Pierre Bezuchov, ako aj členovia rodiny Rostovovcov. Pierre Bezuchov je nositeľom Tolstého myšlienok a často veľmi výstižne hodnotí politicko-spoločenské dianie okolo seba, ako aj významné historické postavy.
Román bol niekoľkokrát úspešne sfilmovaný. V edícii Svetová klasika ODEON vychádza v druhom dvojzväzkovom vydaní.
Z ruského originálu Vojna i mir (Chudožestvenaja literatura, Moskva 1972) preložila Ružena Dvořáková-Žiaranová.
Eliete - Normálny život
Eliete má po štyridsiatke a žije zdanlivo usporiadaný život – má rodinu, prácu, dom, ale nie je spokojná. Keď jej dni začnú skĺzať do úmornej rutiny, hľadá iskru, ktorá by ju znovu prebudila. Vytvorí si profil na online zoznamke, nehľadá však románik, ale samu seba. Čaká ju flirt, neistota aj otázky, aké si doteraz nekládla. Čo na to jej dcéry, manžel a babka?
Dulce Maria Cardoso píše s jemnou iróniou a neobyčajným pochopením pre veci ukryté pod povrchom „normálnosti“. Jej román je zrkadlom modernej osamelosti, majstrovsky zachytáva rozklad intímnych vzťahov v ére sociálnych sietí a zároveň skúma, čo ostáva z autenticity, keď sa život premení na sled rolí. Eliete – Normálny život nie je len portrét ženy, ale aj spoločnosti, ktorá sa naučila predstierať spokojnosť.
Portrét obyčajnej ženy, ktorá umára v nude a ľahostajnosti svojej rodiny – akási dnešná Madame Bovaryová, odhodlaná zmeniť svoj život a objavovať nové možnosti v ére Tinderu.
Expresso
Živly 4: Vzduch
Štvrtý, posledný diel Boynovho románového cyklu Živly. Rozprávačom je Aaron, s ktorého mladšou verziou sme sa stretli v treťom diele s názvom Oheň, kde vystupoval ako Freyin kolega a zároveň jej obeť. Teraz má vyše štyridsať rokov a letí so svojím štrnásťročným synom cez polovicu zemegule zo Sydney do Dublinu, aby sa stretli so ženou, ktorá ich nečaká. Aaron sa ocitá na životnej križovatke; od tejto cesty závisí, či sa so synom zblížia, alebo sa ešte väčšmi odcudzia.
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Fundamentally
A wildly funny and razor-sharp exploration of love, family, religion and the decisions we make in pursuit of belonging.
'By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?'
Nadia is an academic who's been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She decides to make a getaway, accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women, Nadia becomes mired in the opaque world of international aid, surrounded by bumbling colleagues.
Sara is a precocious and sweary East Londoner who joined ISIS at just fifteen.
Nadia is struck by how similar they are: both feisty and opinionated, from a Muslim background, with a shared love of Dairy Milk and rude pick-up lines. A powerful friendship forms between the two women, until a secret confession from Sara threatens everything Nadia has been working for.
The Book of George
We all know a George. He's the kind of guy who's brimming with potential but incapable of following through; he doesn't know if he's in love with his girlfriend, but he certainly likes having her around; he's distant from - but still reliant on - his mother; he swears he'll finish his novel one day.
Sure, you might find him disappointing. But no one is more disappointed in George than George himself.
As funny as it is astute and as singular as it is universal, The Book of George is a deft, unexpectedly moving never-coming-of-age tale and a portrait of one man, but also countless others.
Dandelion is Dead
Seven months after Dandelion's death, Poppy resurrects her sister's phone and finds a message from a man on a dating app. Jake.
Dandelion delighted in bad behaviour. She pushed Poppy to be daring. So, on what would have been her 40th birthday, Poppy decides to do something her sister would love, and - for one night only - she goes on a date as Dandelion.
Only when Poppy meets Jake, they have unexpected chemistry. Thrillingly hot, confusing chemistry. They become tangled in deceit while discovering something shockingly real. What happens when you fall in love with a lie?
As a precarious dare spirals somewhere altogether more unexpected, Dandelion is Dead becomes a love story, a ballad of sisterhood and an ode to bad behaviour.
Good People
Zorah Sharaf's friends know her as witty, confident, obsessed with Paris; Zorah Sharaf's family know her as their beloved daughter and sister; Zorah Sharaf's community know her as a selfish girl intent on dragging her father's name through the mud. So who is Zorah Sharaf?
EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED . . .
The Sharaf family is the picture of success. They arrived in America as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighbourhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father's eye.
But when Zorah dies in an unthinkable tragedy, everyone is left reeling and the family is thrust into the court of public opinion. There is talk that behind closed doors the Sharafs' happy household was anything but, and soon the veneer of the model immigrant family starts to crumble.
Those who knew her best - and those who never met her - all have an opinion on who Zorah really was, and what really happened to her . . .
A kaleidoscopic, urgent narrative, told through the chorus of voices surrounding the Sharafs, Good People is a riveting, provocative and unforgettable story of community, family and identity.
Wuthering Heights
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before.
What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrenders to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff’s bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal are visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.
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Divoké labutě, 3. vydání
Žádný div, že nesmírně poutavá autobiografická kniha čínské autorky, žijící od roku 1978 ve Velké Británii, se po vydání v její nové vlasti a v USA ihned stala bestsellerem – v díle se totiž velmi zdařile snoubí skvělé, věcné vylíčení historie Číny 20. století, plné neuvěřitelných zvratů, se střízlivě a skromně popsanou, avšak pohnutou osobní historií žen tří generací autorčiny rodiny. Příběh začíná vyprávěním osudu babičky, narozené v roce 1909, nejkrásnější dívky na malém městě, kterou její otec „provdal" jako konkubínu za starého generála, aby zvýšil svoji prestiž a domohl se bohatství; pokračuje líčením života matky, která se stala komunistickou funkcionářkou, a vrcholí autorkou, narozenou roku 1952, jež podobně jako ostatní členové rodiny prošla všemi hrůzami a krutostmi tzv. kulturní revoluce, posléze studovala na univerzitě angličtinu, získala britské stipendium a stala se první Číňankou s univerzitním titulem PhD. Nyní je úspěšnou autorkou několika bestsellerových titulů.
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Monique Escapes
I freed myself from your father, I thought this would be a new life for me and now it's starting all over, everything's starting all over again.
The blazing new book from once-in-a-generation writer Édouard Louis, as he helps his mother escape from an abusive partner
SELECTED AS A BOOK TO READ FOR 2026 BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN
One evening, during a writers' residency in Athens, Édouard receives a tearful phone call from his mother, Monique. She tells him that the man she lives with in Paris is abusive, inflicting upon her the same drunken behaviour as Édouard's father, repeating the same cycles of violence, shame and humiliation she fled from before.
Step by step, they plan her escape, celebrating each small victory of Monique's new beginning. But how do you rebuild your life when you've never truly known freedom?
Monique Escapes is an intimate and gripping portrait of a mother fighting for her self-determination, and of the son who becomes her ally. It is a story of reinvention, the price of liberty and the remaking of the relationship between a mother and a son who, despite the weight of their shared history, manage to find each other again.
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