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The Dunwich Horror


In the decaying hills of Dunwich, something monstrous stirs Wilbur Whateley is a strange child – of uncertain parentage, growing to abnormal size at abnormal speed. Shunned by the villagers of Dunwich, Wilbur and his grandfather set out on tending to their own plan. But the otherworldly can’t be kept tame forever. The Dunwich Horror is H. P. Lovecraft’s terrifying tale of strange beings, forbidden knowledge and the power of unseen forces – and what follows when the wrong things are allowed to take root. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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15,99 €

The Parasite


Arthur Conan Doyle’s tense, unsettlingly supernatural tale of obsession and control After Austin Gilroy’s fiancée is hypnotised, he finds himself drawn into the orbit of the woman responsible – Miss Penclosa. Soon, disturbances begin to unsettle him: actions he cannot account for, thoughts that seem to come from elsewhere. As Penclosa’s hold over Gilroy tightens, he discovers how little control he has over his own mind. Told through a series of journal entries, The Parasite follows a self-declared rational man drawn into a relationship he cannot escape - or fully understand. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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15,99 €

Tsubaki Stationery Store


THE BELOVED, HEARTWARMING JAPANESE BESTSELLER, PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH. NOMINATED FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARD . ADAPTED INTO A MAJOR TV SERIES . 440,000 COPIES SOLD IN JAPAN You always told me that writing is life itself. After many years abroad, Hatoko reluctantly returns to Kamakura to take over the stationery store left to her by her late grandmother. As the custodian of the store, she also inherits the profession of public scribe, a role Hatoko trained for as a child under the guidance of her strict grandmother. As the locals seek out Hatoko's help, she takes on all manner of requests: writing letters of greeting, condolence, farewell, love, and more on behalf of those who come to her. A local community forms around Hatoko and the store, and, when the secrets of her late grandmother begin to unravel, Hatoko learns that the role of the scribe requires much more than putting ink to paper. Set to the rhythm of the four seasons and the Japanese rituals and festivities that come with them, Tsubaki Stationery Store is a charming story about the importance of community and the reconciliatory power of the written word.
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19,99 €

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog


Dylan Thomas's vivid, affectionate portrait of youth - and the journey towards finding one's own artistic voice A boy grows up in a small Welsh town, moving through school, family life and first encounters with the wider world in moments of mischief and self-discovery. Along the way, a sensibility begins to take shape - playful, observant and alive to the strangeness of the everyday. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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15,99 €

Sally Bowles


Sally Bowles is the dazzling centrepiece of Goodbye to Berlin, distilling Isherwood's genius into the tale of one baudy, brilliant woman. 1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze, repression and excess, threatened by a rising tide of tyranny. There, a lonely young Brit working on a novel is charmed by an English runaway and aspiring star, the delightfully decadent Sally Bowles. The intimate, fleeting connection they share will stay with him long after. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.
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15,99 €

Tender Buttons


A magical portrait of the mundane and everyday, made otherworldly in Gertrude Stein's one-of-a-kind prose poetry. Objects. Food. And, Rooms. Together these three subjects make up Tender Buttons, Gerturde Stein's beautifully strange, everyday poetic observations about the world and home around her. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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15,99 €

Divné obrázky


Japonský bestseller, který se stal mezinárodní senzací a v němž vás série zdánlivě nevinných kreseb vtáhne do zneklidňující sítě nevyřešených záhad a rozvrácených myslí. Vydejte se s Divnými obrázky na průzkum makabrózního světa, kde i to nejobyčejnější získává děsivý význam. Vše stojí na devíti dětsky působících kresbách, z nichž každá ukrývá znepokojivou stopu. – Například kresba těhotné ženy na zdánlivě neškodném blogu nese mrazivé varování. Či dětský obrázek domova, jenž obsahuje temný tajný vzkaz. Anebo skica, kterou oběť vraždy načrtla v posledních okamžicích svého života a amatérského vyšetřovatele zavede do králičí nory. – Tajemný autor (nebo autorka?) Uketsu čtenáře vyzývá, aby z nich postupně složili jednotlivé záhady i celkový příběh, který je všechny propojuje.
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19,99 €

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City v nádobách


Tři příběhy. Tři nádoby. Tři city, které se nedají udržet. City v nádobách jsou prózou o tom, co zůstane na dně, když se vyp?e vše ostatní. Bedřich hledá inspiraci ve sklenici piva a nachází jen paradox – miluje příliš na to, aby mohl psát, a píše příliš na to, aby mohl milovat. Pavlína pluje za archeologickým objevem na zapomenutý řecký ostrov a místo starověkého pokladu narazí na vlastní touhu, kterou nedokáže ani pojmenovat, ani zadržet. A Bedřichův dopis Pavlíně – psaný s přesýpacími hodinami na stole – je vyznáním, které ví, že přichází příliš brzy, a přesto musí být napsáno. Ondřej Chlubna propojuje tři hlasy, tři časové roviny a jeden společný motiv: city, které se nedají vylít, protože jsou až na samém dně – a právě tam jsou nejsilnější
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11,49 €

Passing


The classic 1920s story of a friendship torn apart, Passing is Nella Larsen's devastating masterpiece Irene Redfield is living a life of careful balance in Harlem when a chance encounter draws her back into the orbit of Clare Kendry, a childhood friend. Passing as white, Clare moves effortlessly through a world that Irene has chosen to reject. Their renewed intimacy is charged with fascination and envy. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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15,99 €

Pinball, 1973


A nostalgic, jazz-soaked love-letter to a youth spent in pursuit of simple pleasures, from the Japan's most celebrated contemporary storyteller, Haruki Murakami Haunted by memories of a doomed love affair, and living in something of a strange hiatus in Tokyo, Pinball, 1973's narrator finds himself dreaming of the days he used to wile away playing pinball in J's Bar. Until one day he embarks on a quest: to find the exact model of pinball machine he played years earlier - the infamous three-flipper Spaceship. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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15,99 €

Service


Danielle MacKinnon's nearly thirty and still hasn't got her life sorted. She's broke, hates her job as PA to the blithely privileged Jeannie, and now a break-up's left her with nowhere to live. It comes as a surprise when Jeannie suggests that Danielle stay at Westerley, the sprawling Yorkshire estate where she grew up. They need someone to look after the place anyway. Danielle enjoys the borrowed luxury at first, but the house is strange, uneasy. The sleep paralysis that started in London has followed her there. Then Jeannie arrives unannounced. Working for Jeannie, serving her, living in her house, the razor-thin boundaries between Danielle and her boss begin to dissolve. Soon their relationship slides into one that is older, stranger and harder to name. Something is happening at Westerley. Things where they shouldn't be. The shadow of a maid sweeping in the dawn light. But is the house really haunted? Or is Danielle?
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19,99 €

The Cat


Colette’s elegant, unsettling study of love turned hostile - and all because of a cat. A young marriage begins to sour, poisoned by rivalry and resentment. At its centre is a cat – adored by the husband, despised by the wife – whose presence exposes the quiet cruelty and emotional imbalance of the household. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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15,99 €

He Who Fights With Monsters: Outworlder


Survive an alternate universe and jump into the first installment of the witty and magic-fueled HE WHO FIGHTS WITH MONSTERS series-now with a bonus short story exclusive to this deluxe hardcover edition. "Exciting, hilarious, irreverent, and action-packed." -Matt Dinniman, New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Dungeon Crawler Carl For fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl, Cradle, Defiance of the Fall, The Primal Hunter, The Wandering Inn, The Dresden Files, Kaiju Preservation Society, and The Murderbot Diaries. It's not an easy career jump, going from retail assistant manager to interdimensional adventurer. Jason doesn't have much of a choice, though, when he wakes up naked confused in a world of mystery and magic. It wasn't prophecy that brought him here. He wasn't chosen. It was the wrong place, the wrong time and the very, very wrong guy. The wizard who summoned him by accident does not react well. In short order, Jason will have to fight monsters, face cultists, escape cannibals and find some pants, preferably not in that order. The good news? He has powers. The bad news? They're kind of evil. With no idea where he is or what he's doing, he's going to need friends, and fast, because in this world, power isn't just about magic and monsters. Jason will have to deal with politicians, noble houses and crime lords to survive. He'll need to master his powers, evil or not, hopefully without becoming the worst monster of all.
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23,99 €

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices


Two literary giants take to the road on a comic journey - both chaotic, and completely unforgettable Tired of the grind of work, two apprentices set out on a walking tour with no fixed plan, determined to do as little as possible. As they drift from town to town, they encounter curious characters, regale strange stories and witness moments of quiet absurdity that disrupt their idleness. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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15,99 €

The Master of Go


Luminous, suspenseful and serene, The Master of Go is a compelling portrait, quietly devastating of two men – and a whole society – facing defeat. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, the strategy game Go is an expression of the Japanese spirit. But when a revered Master is challenged by a younger, more modern upcomer, their match, waged over several months and layered in ceremony, pits imperial Japan against the twentieth century. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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Things: A Story of the Sixties


Georges Perec’s cool, exacting portrait of a couple torn apart by consumer desire A young couple build their lives around the objects they long to own. From furniture to clothes to carefully imagined interiors, their desires shape their sense of who they are – and who they might become. Yet satisfaction always seems just out of reach.. Precise and quietly ironic, Things explores the promises of material life – and the emptiness that can follow. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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15,99 €

The Third Man


Graham Greene’s iconic thriller – a shocking tale of espionage and deceit, told from amongst the smouldering ruins of war-torn Europe. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in post-war Vienna to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates... BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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We Were Forbidden


A startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, from the author of I Who Have Never Known Men In the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest, forbidden from ever leaving its strange depths. As part of her rigid schooling, a teenage girl is barred from questioning the dogma she is taught to believe. Locked in a loveless marriage, a young woman satisfies her husband's desires, twice-weekly, as directed - until she begins to pursue her own. Includes the stories: The Ardennes Forest, The Outcast and The Broom Cupboard BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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15,99 €

Significant Moments


This miniature array of perfect stories by the legendary Margaret Atwood flash before us the joys and despairs of mothers good and bad, evoking laughter, compassion and recognition in us all. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.
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15,99 €

Beletria je často nazývaná aj krásnou, alebo umeleckou literatúrou. Toto označenie pochádza z francúzskeho názvu belles lettres (krásna literatúra)Výrazom beletria sa súhrnne označujú umelecké prozaické diela. K najznámejším beletristickým žánrom patrí poviedka, novela, román, črta či umelecká reportáž.

Romány, poviedky a novely ponúkajú pútavé príbehy s výraznými postavami a atmosférou. Divadelné hry zase slúžia ako materiál pre divadelné predstavenia a prinášajú konverzácie, dramatické situácie a komediálne alebo tragické prvky.

Beletria je neoddeliteľnou súčasťou literatúry, ktorá obohacuje naše vnímanie sveta a poskytuje nám príležitosť prežívať rôznorodé príbehy a vstúpiť do rôznych svetov. Bez ohľadu na to, či preferujete dobrodružstvo, romantiku alebo reflexiu, beletria vám umožní objaviť nové myšlienky, inšpirácie a zábavu.

Hľadáte knižných hrdinov, ktorí vás zavedú do sveta romantiky, histórie, sci-fi či fantasy? Prinášame vám ten najlepší výber skutočných príbehov, románov, detektívok, noviel a poviedok. K úspešným autorom beletrie patria Jozef KarikaDominik Dán, Róbert Bryndza, Kristína Tormová, Urbaníková EvitaTáňa Keleová Vasilková a Stephen King