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Amadoka
Hrdina románu zázračně přežije zranění, avšak s následkem ztráty paměti: neví, jak se jmenuje, odkud pochází, nepamatuje si ani zlomek ze svého předchozího života. Opatruje jej žena a spolu se dotknou nejhlubších vrstev vzpomínek, spojí rozptýlené kousky podvědomí a odkryjí společnou historii. Název Amadoka označuje největší jezero v Evropě, které se nacházelo na území dnešní Ukrajiny. Zmiňuje se o něm už Herodotos a po několik století jej starověcí a středověcí kartografové zaznačovali do map. Až do okamžiku, kdy jezero zmizelo beze stopy. A to jsou další poschodí této knížky. Jak ale mizí jezera, světy, kultury a co po nich zůstává?
Ostrovanka
Napínavý příběh z Fríských ostrovů.
Ani slunce, Severní moře a nekonečné pláže ostrovů ve východním Frísku nemohou zabránit vlivu kriminality na tento ještě donedávna nedotknutý ráj, který si mezinárodní drogové bandy z čistě geografických důvodů snaží vzájemně zabrat před nosem. Do tohoto nemilosrdného boje jsou pozvolna vtaženi i náhodní návštěvníci sedmi ostrovů, kteří mají vlastně oči jen pro druhé pohlaví, hudbu a nezávaznou zábavu…
Já, která nikdy nepoznala muže
Vězeňská cela hluboko pod zemí. Pod neustálým dozorem mlčenlivých strážných zde tráví celý život 39 žen a jedna bezejmenná dívka. Žádná z žen neví, proč se ocitla právě zde a čím si zasloužila svůj osud, jaké byly jejich zločiny… pokud se vůbec něčím provinily. Dozorci s vězeňkyněmi nikdy nepromluví ani slovo. Bezejmenná je jediné dítě, které v tomto zpustošeném světě zůstalo naživu, z nějakého neznámého nebo snad zapomenutého důvodu. Nemá jméno, minulost ani vzpomínky na svět venku před katastrofou. Žije v kleci pod zemí, kde je zakázaná intimita. Neví, co jsou knihy, jaké city a emoce mohou lidé prožívat. Roky v podzemním vězení ubíhají, jako by čas vůbec neexistoval. Plyne v neúprosné jednotvárnosti a dny od nocí dělí umělé světlo žárovek. Jednoho dne se chodbami rozezní alarm. Strážní zmizí a dveře zůstanou otevřené. Všechno se rázem změní… a přitom se nezmění nic. Bezejmenná mladá žena, která nikdy nepoznala muže, se vydává na cestu světem bez minulosti i budoucnosti. Objevovat kousek po kousku místo, kde nikdy nebyla, a čelit té největší a nejnebezpečnější neznámé: svobodě člověka.
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Köszi, apu!
Juliane nem szereti a meglepetéseket, rendezett életet él férjével és hétéves kisfiával. Az apja, Jean ellenben mindig is bohém volt, és mindent imádott, ami spontán és váratlan. Így az sem rázza meg, amikor egy napon leég a háza, és neki ideiglenesen a lányához kell költöznie.
Az együttélés rendkívül kimerítőnek bizonyul Juliane számára, mert apja mindig is mágnesként vonzotta a káoszt, de most mintha rosszabb lenne, mint valaha. Jean harcol a szomszéddal, bömbölteti a zenét, trambulint vesz, a kertben akar lakni egy indián tipiben, a Teleshopnál szórja a pénzét, és folyton elveszít meg elfelejt dolgokat...
Juliane először azt hiszi, hogy apja furcsa hangulata és polgárpukkasztó viselkedése a kora számlájára írható, de hamarosan be kell látnia, hogy ennél többről van szó, és hogy az idő, amit most kényszerűségből egy fedél alatt töltenek, a legszebb ajándék mindkettőjüknek, amit a sors adhatott.
Kitűnően megírt, egyszerre komoly és vicces könyv Franciaország legolvasottabb regényírójától.
Utas és holdvilág
"A szerelem mindvégig megőriz egy pillanatot, azt a pillanatot, amikor született; és akit szeretnek, sosem öregszik meg, szerelmese szemében mindig tizenhét éves marad, és kócos haját, könnyű nyári ruháját ugyanaz a barátságos szél borzolja egy életen át, ami akkor fújt, abban a végzetes pillanatban."
A világ- és a magyar irodalom feledhetetlen remekműveit tartalmazó Alexandra klasszikusok-sorozat exkluzív minőségű kiadványai méltó díszei bármely könyvespolcnak.
Trik
Spisovatelka M. žijící v evropském exilu se vydává do sousední země na literární festival. Rychlík, který ji tam má dovézt, je však kvůli stávce zrušen, a tak nasedne do loudavého osobního vlaku s tím, že přes hranici ji do cíle odveze objednaný taxík. Ten však před nádražím nestojí a dál už se hlavní hrdinka v neznámém přímořském městě jen ztrácí a uniká, a to i z vlastního života. Pomáhají jí v tom nevšední rekvizity: krásný blondýn, kočující cirkus, černý sarkofág, motorová pila či tarotové karty. Příběh se odehrává v létě roku 2023: válka Ruska proti Ukrajině je v plném proudu.
Novela Trik básnířky a prozaičky Mariji Stěpanovové je jednou z prvních literárních výpovědí o nové, páté vlně ruské emigrace. O té její části, která cítí zodpovědnost za zlo páchané režimem své domoviny a která jako by se nacházela ve stavu nekončícího pádu.
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Mrs Dalloway
Celebrate the 100th birthday of a groundbreaking novel with this very special hardback based on the first edition published by the Hogarth Press. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. 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.
The text of this centenary edition of Mrs Dalloway is based on the original Hogarth Press edition, published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf on 14 May 1925. The dust jacket features the original cover created by Virginia Woolf ’s sister, Vanessa Bell, for the Hogarth Press. Beneath the cover ‘deep rust’ boards printed in gilt take inspiration from the finish of the first trade edition.
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Gliff
O brave new world, that has such people in't.
Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house.
What does it mean?
It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation who’ll sort out our increasingly toxic world.
What would that actually be like?
In a state turned hostile, a world of insiders and outsiders, what things of the past can sustain them and what shape can resistance take?
And what’s a horse got to do with any of this?
Gliff is a novel about how we make meaning and how we are made meaningless. With a nod to the traditions of dystopian fiction, a glance at the Kafkaesque, and a new take on the notion of classic, it's a moving and electrifying read, a vital and prescient tale of the versatility and variety deep-rooted in language, in nature and in human nature.
To the Lighthouse
Celebrate a captivating novel with this special edition featuring the original cover created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, and the original text first published by The Hogarth Press.
There were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
The Ramseys have always spent their holidays at their summer house on Skye - holidays filled with noise, joy and the stuff of family life that might go on forever. But as time passes, bringing with it war and death, the summer home stands empty until one day the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse.
To the Lighthouse was published in 1927 and was more commercially successful than any of Woolf's previous novels. Woolf herself thought it 'easily the best of my books'. The book printed three times in its first year and went on to become one of Woolf's best-loved works.
The text of this edition of To the Lighthouse is based on the original Hogarth Press edition, published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf on 5 May 1927. The dust jacket features the original cover created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, for the Hogarth Press. Beneath the cover 'bright blue' boards printed in gilt take inspiration from the finish of the first trade edition.
A Room of Ones Own
Celebrate a vital work of feminism with this special edition featuring the original cover created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, and the original text first published by The Hogarth Press.
Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Witty, urbane and vital to this day, A Room of One's Own is a persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. It weaves together memoir, imaginative speculation and political vision to create one of the most important works of feminism of the twentieth century.
The book sprang from two lectures that Woolf delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1928. The first printing of the book the following year was as a limited edition, a joint publication between The Fountain Press of New York and the Hogarth Press. Two months later it was released to the general trade and has been an essential work ever since.
The text of this edition of A Room of One's Own is based on the original Hogarth Press edition, published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in October 1929. The dust jacket features the original cover created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, for the Hogarth Press. Beneath the cover 'cinnamon' boards printed in gilt take inspiration from the finish of the first trade edition.
Parallel Lines
A brother and sister lost and found, in a novel that seizes your heart and enthrals your mind, from the author of the Patrick Melrose series.
‘We set off in opposite directions and walked around the world until we met, and I’m very pleased we have…’
It is summer. Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him with a fragile hold on reality and a hunger to connect with the mother who abandoned him. His therapist, Martin, also faces challenges, including his adopted daughter Olivia’s tenuous relationship with her biological mother. Olivia, meanwhile, is producing a radio series on natural disasters, which itself seems to be running parallel to the events unfolding in her personal life.
Over a year, their fates collide in outrageous and poignant ways, revealing their destinies in a new light. Parallel Lines is a novel about connection, family, love, and the cascading consequences of our choices.
Prima Facie
Tessa Ensler is a brilliant barrister who's forged her career in criminal defence through sheer determination. Since her days at Cambridge, she’s carefully disguised her working class roots in a male-dominated world where who you know is just as important as what you know. Driven by her belief in the right to a fair trial and a taste for victory, there’s nothing Tessa loves more than the thrill of getting her clients acquitted.
It seems like Tessa has it made when she is approached for a new job and nominated for the most prestigious award in her field. But when a date with a charismatic colleague goes horribly wrong, Tessa finds that the rules she’s always played by might not protect her, forcing her to question everything she's ever believed in . . .
The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women
A celebration of the sharpest, wittiest, most beloved Jane Austen characters and their timeless retorts
Why use plain words to scold those nearest to you when fancier insults are available? With The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women, you can clap back at irritating strangers, tiresome guests, bad dates and micromanaging bosses with top-notch snipes from the ultimate literary genius.
Just as effective today as they were two hundred years ago, hold your head high as you deliver the following:
When they won't stop talking: 'Let us have the luxury of silence.'
When you colleague asks you to 'circle back': 'I detest jargon of every kind…'
When they post filtered selfies: 'Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.'
Air
From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son.
Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. For Aaron Umber, it’s an opportunity to connect with his 14-year-old son as they travel halfway across the world to meet a woman who isn’t expecting them.
Unsettled by his past, and anxious for his future, Aaron is at a crossroads in life. The damage inflicted upon him during his youth has made him the man he is, but now threatens to widen the growing fissures between him and his only child. This trip could bind them closer together, or tear them further apart.
In this penetrating examination of action and consequence, fault and attribution, acceptance and resolution, John Boyne gives us a redemptive story of a father and a son on a moving journey to mend their troubled lives.
The Names
The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?
In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to name the infant after him. But when the registrar asks what she'd like to call the child, Cora hesitates...
Spanning thirty-five years, what follows are three alternate and alternating versions of Cora's and her young son's lives, shaped by her choice of name. In richly layered prose, The Names explores the painful ripple effects of domestic abuse, the messy ties of family, and the possibilities of autonomy and healing.
With exceptional sensitivity and depth, Knapp draws us into the story of one family, told through a prism of what-ifs, causing us to consider the "one . . . precious life" we are given. The book’s brilliantly imaginative structure, propulsive storytelling, and emotional, gut-wrenching power are certain to make The Names a modern classic.
The Most Secret Memory of Men
Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. It has an immediate hold over him. No one knows what happened to the author, T.C. Elimane, who was accused of plagiarism, his reputation destroyed by the critics.
Obsessed with discovering the truth about Elimane's disappearance, Faye weaves past and present, countries and continents, following the author's labyrinthine trail from Senegal to Argentina and France and confronting the great tragedies of history.
Will he get to the truth at the centre of the maze?
A gripping literary quest novel and a masterpiece of perpetual reinvention, The Most Secret Memory of Men confronts the impact of colonialism and neo-colonialism, the holocaust in Europe, dictatorships in South America and the Caribbean, genocide in Africa, and collaboration and resistance everywhere. Above all, it is a love song to literature and its timeless power.
Mermaids, Sirens and Selkies
Legends about sea people – part human, part fish – have been told across the world since ancient times. Now the best of these stories are brought together in one entrancing volume.
Early maps carried illustrations of mermaids alongside monsters, signalling both the allure and the danger of uncharted seas. The far-reaching historical and cultural significance of mermaids and their kin is reflected in the myriad stories about them.
Odysseus at sea must resist the sirens’ song. There are sea serpents from North America and selkies from Scotland. And from shores across the globe, humble fishermen and princes alike fall in love with mermaids in stories from Germany to Japan by way of Denmark with the famous story of The Little Mermaid.
Mermaids, Sirens and Selkies: Myths and Legends is part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.
For more myths from Jean Menzies, Fairies, Elves and Sprites is also available.
The Griffin Sisters Greatest Hits
Fame comes at a price…
The Griffin Sisters had the world at their feet, catapulted to stardom in the early 00’s before they become one of rock music’s greatest mysteries:
Zoe, effortlessly gorgeous, who loved the fans and the fame, dancing under the lights while her sister’s voice rang out across stadiums.
Cassie, never comfortable with the crowds or the attention, but with the voice of a generation, rich, haunting, touched with heartbreak.
It’s two decades since The Griffin Sisters broke up. Zoe’s a wife and mother, living in suburbia, occasionally recognised by a nostalgic fan. No one knows where Cassie is. The sisters haven’t spoken in years.
Now, despite her mum’s warnings, Zoe’s teenage daughter, Cherry, is determined to break into the music business and to discover the truth about what happened to the band all those years ago.
But as secrets emerge, Cassie and Zoe must face the consequences of their choices: the ones they made and the ones the music industry made for them. Can they forgive each other – and themselves? And will the Griffin Sisters ever make music again?
From the Number 1 bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a glittering novel set in the world of pop music about sisters, motherhood and the dreams we chase.
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