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Život po francouzsku
Vypravěč románu je obyčejný Francouz: Paul Blick vyrůstal jakoby ve stínu svého zemřelého bratra, po bouřlivácké éře 60. let se dobře oženil a usadil, začal pracovat jako novinář. Teď má na krku padesátku a jako kdekdo polyká prášky na uklidnění. Žije sám, žena ho zruinovala, děti se mu vzdálily. Autor podává osobité svědectví o francouzské společnosti, politice, rodině i sexualitě. Tato tragikomická generační výpověď se stala ve Francii bestsellerem - autor za dílo obdržel cenu Femina.
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Na světě žijeme každý jinak
S vypravěčem Paulem a jeho blízkými nahlédneme do odlišných prostředí a míst světa. Francie, Dánsko, Kanada, kostel, rezidenční komplex, hráčské doupě nebo vězení – všude rezonuje kvas doby, zasahující do osudů každého z nich. Paulův otec – dánský pastor, matka – podnikavá krasavice, napůl Indiánka a pilotka, spoluvězeň Patrik – rabiátský Hells Angel… Takové nevšední postavy tvoří důvěrný svět hrdiny, který s nimi zažije okamžiky štěstí i pády, dramata i bezpráví, aniž ho přitom opustí jemný ironický humor. Strhující, dějově i emotivně bohatý a inteligentní román ukazuje svět a lidi, jací jsou: nikdo a nic není jen černé nebo bílé. A právě tahle rozmanitost je tím, co poutá člověka k životu a čtenáře k této knize. Za román Na světě žijeme každý jinak autor roku 2019 získal Goncourtovu cenu.
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The Family Gift
'Honest, funny, clever, it sparkles with witty, wry observations on modern life. I loved it' Marian KeyesThe greatest gift of all... Freya Abalone's life looks perfect from the outside: big family, dream career and a gorgeous new home.
But she can't stop thinking that something is missing, that maybe she's not good enough... And now Freya's happy, blended family is about to be turned upside-down. For years Freya has raised her husband's daughter as her own, but now her glamorous, party-loving birth mother, Elisa, has crashed back into their lives.
If there's one thing that Freya's sure of, it's that her family is the greatest gift of all - and when life gives you lemons, you throw them right back!
The Illustrated Child
A picture paints a thousand lies...'Evocative and enchanting - a future classic' Veronica Henry, bestselling author'An extraordinary debut... beautiful, dark, haunting' Edward Carey'A bewitching read' Woman & HomeNOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER!Romilly lives in a ramshackle house with her eccentric artist father and her cat, Monty. She knows little about her past - but she knows that she is loved.When her father finds fame with a series of children's books starring her as the main character, everything changes: exotic foods appear on the table, her father appears on TV, and strangers appear at their door, convinced the books contain a treasure hunt leading to a glittering prize.But as time passes, Romilly's father becomes increasingly suspicious of everything around him, until, before her eyes, he begins to disappear altogether.In her increasingly isolated world, Romilly turns to the secrets her father has hidden in his illustrated books, realising that there is something far darker and more devastating locked within the pages...The truth.The Illustrated Child is the unforgettable, beguiling debut from Polly Crosby.Praise for The Illustrated Child:'Evocative and enchanting - a future classic and a star in the making' Veronica Henry, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Beach Hut'An extraordinary debut...
beautiful, dark, haunting and unforgettable. I loved it' Edward Carey, author of Little'A bewitching read' Woman & Home'Written in fine, delicate prose, this treasure of a debut takes up the palette of emotions and paints with all the colours. Beautiful' Nydia Hetherington, author of A Girl Made of Air'A beautifully written tale that evokes dreams and imagination' Daily Record'Exquisitely written, stunning, totally unique.
Everyone needs to read this' Jessica Ryn, author of The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside'A magical tale, beautifully written, evocative and mysterious, and stitched through with a dark thread that I wasn't expecting. What a wonderful book' Anita Frank, author of The Lost Ones'Weaves a magical spell in which dark-edged fantasy collides with everyday life' Publishers Weekly
Siddhartha
Told in a simple mythical style, the story of Siddhartha is an inspirational classic by Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is translated from German by Hilda Rosner with an introduction by John Peacock.
Siddhartha, the son of a wealthy Brahmin, is unable to find peace within his own religion and community so sets off on his travels through India in search of enlightenment. First he spends time with a group of ascetics called Samanas. For a while he embraces their doctrine and rejects all worldly goods. When he hears about a man called Gotama the Buddha he leaves the Samanas. However Buddhist teaching disappoints him and he realizes that self-discovery must come from his own experiences. He rejects the spiritual life, takes a lover and becomes a rich merchant. But after some years, dissatisfied with materialism, he takes off again in search of the spiritual peace he longs for.
Lacná kniha Native Son (-25%)
WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY GARY YOUNGE'[Native Son] possesses an artistry, penetration of thought, and sheer emotional power that places it into the front rank of American fiction' Ralph Ellison'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' James BaldwinReckless, angry and adrift, Bigger Thomas has grown up trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. But a job with the affluent Dalton family provides the setting for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs. Hunted by citizen and police alike, and baited by prejudiced officials, Bigger finds himself the cause celebre in an ever-narrowing endgame.
First published in 1940, Native Son shocked readers with its candid depiction of violence and confrontation of racial stereotypes. It went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America.
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Lacná kniha Posledný sľub (-10%)
Aj z popola najväčšej tragédie môže vykvitnúť nádej a láska.
Tara Richardsová bola ešte len dievčaťom, keď zmizla jej matka Violet. Po mnohých rokoch dostane list od právnikov z Londýna a jeho obsah jej prevráti život naruby. Niekto jej zanechal kľúčik od bezpečnostnej schránky. V nej nájde predmet, ktorý zmení všetko, čomu dovtedy verila, a vzbudí v nej nádej. Odchádza do Španielska, aby našla odpovede na otázky, ktoré ju prenasledovali takmer štyridsať rokov.
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Christmas Shopaholic
Celebrate Christmas with the ultimate Shopaholic! A Sunday Times bestseller.
Longlisted for the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2020
The brilliant laugh-out-loud festive novel from the Number One bestselling author.
Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It's always the same - Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, Mum pretending she made the Christmas pudding, and the next-door neighbours coming round for sherry in their terrible festive jumpers.
And now it's even easier with online bargain-shopping sites - if you spend enough you even get free delivery. Sorted!
But this year looks set to be different.
Unable to resist the draw of craft beer and smashed avocado, Becky's parents are moving to ultra-trendy Shoreditch and have asked Becky if she'll host Christmas this year. What could possibly go wrong?
With sister Jess demanding a vegan turkey, husband Luke determined that he just wants aftershave again, and little Minnie insisting on a very specific picnic hamper - surely Becky can manage all this, as well as the surprise appearance of an old boyfriend and his pushy new girlfriend, whose motives are far from clear . .
Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War.
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born in Hampstead, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, serving in the Middle East and in Yugoslavia. In 1942 he published Put Out More Flags and then in 1945 Brideshead Revisited. Men at Arms (1952) was the first volume of 'The Sword of Honour' trilogy, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the other volumes, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender, followed in 1955 and 1961.
If you enjoyed Brideshead Revisited, you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies, also available in Penguin Classics.
Lelked szélfútta madártoll
Képzeljünk el egy 20 év körüli ifjút a világ tetején (Tibetben), napközben dalai lámaként, istenkirályi trónján ezerszobás királyi palotájában (Potala), éjjel pedig az ivók, fogadók, bordélyok törzsvendégeként, aki saját költeményeit énekli az éjszaka lányainak. Az ifjú népszerű, istenként tisztelt uralkodó, s ugyancsak népszerű szerető, ünnepelt költő. Az emberek úgy érzik, az ő nyelvükön, az ő életükről szólnak a versei. Hamarosan országszerte ismerik és éneklik a dalait, Lhászában, a fővárosban pedig együtt mulatnak a költővel. A szerelmi élményeiről olykor nyersen, profán őszinteséggel valló ifjúról nem is sejtik, hogy ő maga a dalai láma. Sorrendben a hatodik, Tibetben minden földi és égi hatalom egyszemélyes birtokosa, a könyörületesség bodhiszattvájának háromszáz évvel ezelőtti földi megtestesülése. Az ő verseit olvashatjuk ebben a kötetben, amely az ázsiai irodalom olyan alapművének számít, mint Európában Shakespeare vagy Goethe alkotásai.
Help Yourself
Sittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, envy and disappointment, gender and celebrity.
Suburban friends fall out after a racist encounter at a birthday party is caught on video and posted on Facebook; an illustrious Manhattan film crew are victims of their own snobbery when they underestimate a pre-school teacher from the Mid-West; and a group of young writers fight about love and narrative style as they compete for a prestigious bursary.
Connecting each of these three stories is Sittenfeld's truthful yet merciless eye. Full of tenderness and compassion, this dazzling collection celebrates our humanity in all its pettiness and glory.
A STYLIST Best Books for Autumn title
Featured in the Sunday Times Guide to Culture
Native Son
WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY GARY YOUNGE'[Native Son] possesses an artistry, penetration of thought, and sheer emotional power that places it into the front rank of American fiction' Ralph Ellison'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' James BaldwinReckless, angry and adrift, Bigger Thomas has grown up trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. But a job with the affluent Dalton family provides the setting for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs. Hunted by citizen and police alike, and baited by prejudiced officials, Bigger finds himself the cause celebre in an ever-narrowing endgame.
First published in 1940, Native Son shocked readers with its candid depiction of violence and confrontation of racial stereotypes. It went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America.
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The End of the Day
The second novel from Booker-longlisted Bill Clegg
Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns with a profoundly moving, emotionally resonant second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of family and friendship. The End of the Day is an exploration of class and power, the corrosive force of secrets, the heartbeat of longing, and the redemption found in forgiveness.
A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in forty-nine years.
A man arrives at a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hotel to introduce his estranged father to his newborn daughter and finds him collapsed on the floor of the lobby.
A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past.
These seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century-old secrets begin to surface.
Deeply observed and beautifully written in Bill Clegg's signature 'eloquent, elegant voice' (Entertainment Weekly), the novel is a feat of storytelling, capturing sixty years within the framework of one fateful day.
The Age of Anxiety
The Age of Anxiety is a great rock novel, but that is one of the less important things about it. The narrator is a brilliant creation - cultured, witty and unreliable. The novel captures the craziness of the music business and displays Pete Townshend's sly sense of humour and sharp ear for dialogue.
First conceived as an opera, The Age of Anxiety deals with mythic and operatic themes including a maze, divine madness and long-lost children. Hallucinations and soundscapes haunt this novel, which on one level is an extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity.
In Five Years
Dannie Kohan has held true to her meticulously crafted 5-year plan since she understood the concept. On the day that she nails the most important interview of her career and gets engaged to the perfect man, she's well on her way to fulfilling her life goals.
But that night Dannie falls asleep and dreams of a night five years in the future where she's engaged to another man. It was just a dream, she tells herself when she wakes, but it felt so real.
Determined to ignore the odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind. That is, until five years later, when Dannie turns down a street and there, standing on the corner, is the man from her dream...
Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day, this heart-breaking story of love, loss and life will have you questioning everything you thought you knew about destiny.
A Single Thread
FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING'Bittersweet ... dazzling' Guardian'Deeply pleasurable ... the ending made me cry' The Times'Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity' Penelope LivelyViolet is 38.The First World War took everything from her.
Her brother, her fiance - and her future. She is now considered a 'surplus woman'.But Violet is also fiercely independent and determined. Escaping her suffocating mother, she moves to Winchester to start a new life -a change that will require courage, resilience and acts of quiet rebellion.
And when whispers of another world war surface, she must live with a secret that could change everything...
Láska a přátelství
Láska a přátelství, novela v dopisech, bývá občas zaměňována s obdobným dílem Jane Austenové: s Lady Susan. Přispívá k tomu nejen stejná literární forma, ale také film Láska a přátelství, který navzdory názvu vychází právě z Lady Susan. "Naše" kniha, tedy Láska a přátelství, je však samostatným dílkem světoznámé autorky, pozoruhodným už tím, že je psala mezi jedenáctým a čtrnáctým rokem svého věku. Snad právě díky mládí, které bývá bezohledné, se v něm vysmála mnohým klišé romantické literatury: jmenujme jen "scény plné omdlévání", "nečekaná zjevení dosud neznámých příbuzných", "vznešené city versus přízemní realita" či "povinný odpor proti rodičovskému despotismu".
Nad tím vším se vznáší nepřekonatelná ironie Jane Austenové, její břitký humor - ale také city, vášeň a láska, byť podané tak, že občas nevíme, zda se smát, či plakat. Smích je každopádně na místě, vždyť autorka psala tyto fiktivní dopisy pro pobavení rodinného kruhu; i tak ale budete líčení krásné, nesnázemi stíhané Laury číst se zatajeným dechem a neubráníte se obdivu vůči vypravěčským schopnostem mladinké Jane, která se později stala jednou z nejoblíbenějších a nejuznávanějších spisovatelek všech dob.
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A kentaur
Nemzeti Könyvdíj, 1964
A Kentaur egy görög, mitikus történet újramondása modern környezetben. Updike a Nyúl-sorozat első könyvét követően és A Farmot megelőzően írta, az USA-ban eredetileg 1963-ban jelent meg.
Kheirón egy bölcs, nemes lelkű kentaur volt, aki fájdalmas sebet kapott, mégsem volt képes meghalni és lemondott a halhatatlanságáról Prométheusz javára.
Updike huszadik századi változatában az Olymposzból egy kisvárosi középiskola lesz, Kheirónból George Caldwell középiskolai tanár, Prométheusz pedig nem más, mint Caldwell tizenöt éves fia, Peter.
Kheirón agóniáját Caldwell életének utolsó három napja örökíti meg, amelyről az amerikai Nemzeti Könyvdíj zsűrije azt írta:
"...merész beszámoló egy apa-fiú konfliktusról, amelynek során az apa rengeteg mindent nem képes kifejezésre juttatni, fia viszont annál inkább."
Kutyaélet
"Állatorvost sose harapj meg, még akkor se, ha hideg lázmérővel támad hátulról. Jót akar."
Egyszer volt, hol nem volt, élt Provence-ban egy angol író, aki örökbe fogadott egy ismeretlen eredetű és kétséges vadászösztönökkel megáldott kutyát. Peter Mayle a Fiú nevet adta négylábú kedvencének, és Kutyaélet címmel megírta a nagyzási hóborttal és heveny üldözési mániával megáldott fajtatiszta állat naplóját. A csupa szellem és humor írás tulajdonképpen elmélkedés ember és kutya kapcsolatáról, megspékelve az emberi miben létről szóló újszerű megfigyelésekkel, mindezt új nézőpontból: körülbelül térdmagasságból. Megtudhatjuk, hogy a kétlábúak iránti vonzalom alapja a rendszeres élelmiszer-ellátás, a tyúkok szeretete pedig azon az egyszerű tényen múlik, hogy remekül egyesítik magukban a sportot és a táplálékot. A nagy bölcselőktől vett idézetek közé gyakorlatias kutyaügyek és vidám történetek keverednek, amelyekből egy felejthetetlen kutyaszemélyiség rajzolódik ki.
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