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Autocorrect


Imagine a world in which you could take back the stupid thing you just said, unspill the coffee, avoid the accident, roll life back thirty seconds and do it over again - this time the right way. In Etgar Keret's universe, all things are possible. A man can take a yoga class that genuinely transforms his life. A son has the chance to redo a fateful exchange with his father. An alien can offer a guided tour of the destroyed earth. And an angry squirrel can wreck a wedding. Ranging from sci-fi scenarios to fictional thought-experiments and short vignettes, the stories here all deliver the irreverence, surprises, existential unease, hope and humanity we have come to expect from Etgar Keret - one of the most original and entertaining storytellers at work today.
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15,99 €

Exhibition


The must-read art world novel of the summer: a story of love, ego and destruction, and the dark relationship between authenticity and celebrity, artist and muse. London. 1990s. Amid the heady rebellion of Young British Artists, Rabble Stone, a photographer, meets the artist, a painter, after renting a room in her Brixton home. Soon Rabble is in thrall to this new world: to the run-down glamour of the Victorian house; to the exhilarating and debauched gallery openings, and to those in the artist's orbit, beautiful and lost. Above all, she is drawn to her new friend's work; raw, unfiltered self-portraits of startling intimacy, which Rabble captures in her uncompromising photographs. But as Rabble's longing tips into obsession, her pursuit of the artist - her fame, her wealth, her life - threatens to consume her... "Sharp, vivid, compelling: a love letter to the last identifiable scene in British Art that captures the energy, grit and luxury and hunger of 90s London" - Lizzy Stewart, author of Alison and Wreck
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19,99 €

So, I Met This Guy . . .


From the author of the bestselling phenomenon Confessions of a Forty-something F##k Up comes the perfect, sun-kissed holiday read full of wit, wisdom and women who have had ENOUGH. So, I Met This Guy . . . Isn't that how every love story starts? But how will it end . . . Maggie thinks she's finally found 'the one', only to discover he's stolen her life-savings, along with her heart, home and self-esteem. With nothing left to lose, she teams up with Flick - a young reporter hungry for her big break - and together they chase the fraudster across Europe. But when their adventure takes an unexpected turn, secrets are revealed and an unlikely friendship begins to blossom. And they realise it's not about finding the guy; it's about finding themselves.
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15,99 €

Cursed Daughters


SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO AWARD 2026Readers are falling hard for Cursed Daughters... 'ABSOLUTELY RIVETING!!''Will hook you from start to finish... I read in two days!''Oh my gosh this book is so good!'''I cannot express how much I adored this book - like truly, madly, deeply adored it'Your daughters are cursed. They will pursue men, but the men will be like water in their palms. Your granddaughters will love in vain. Your daughters, your daughter's daughters, and all the women to come will suffer for man's sake... Eniiyi has heard about the family curse her whole life. She's never believed in it. She's also heard, her whole life, that she is the reincarnation of her dead aunt, Monife. Same eyes, same left hand, same scar in the same place. She's never believed in that, either. Then she falls in love with a handsome local boy, and Monife begins to appear to Eniiyi: in her dreams, on the beach, in the mirror, pulling her, it seems, towards the same terrible fate. Can Eniiyi live her life on her own terms, or is history - and the curse - repeating itself?'Funny and fearless, soaked in secrets, spirit, heartbreak, and love... Impossible to put down' Abi Daré'A rich and absorbing tale of destiny versus self-determinism... I lost myself within its gorgeous pages' Jennie Godfrey
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15,99 €

Trouble Was


'I've read no better novel in years' Samantha Harvey'Evocative, resonant, and quite simply, brilliant' Claire Fuller'Disturbing and heartbreaking in equal measure' Hari KunzruA powerfully evocative and tenderly realised debut novel about family secrets, the power of imagination - and coming of age in the dying dreams of the 1970s1976. Nine-year-old Frank Dart dreams of his absent dad, away at sea; while making sure his mum’s got all the cigarettes she needs for the long drive in their battered Citroën down to their new home in North Devon. Here in Aunt Perry’s house, Frank and his little sister Odette must make sense of their cousins’ hostility – while their mum seems to drift further and further away. The house is haunted by secrets, past and present; and as spring turns to a suffocatingly hot summer, the past threatens to boil over and scald everything in its wake. Trouble Was is a raw and tender story of growing up too soon, betrayal and resilience, love and survival – and a dazzling exploration of toxic family politics, buried secrets and the power of the imagination.
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22,99 €

The Phoenix Pencil Company


‘Absorbing’ GUARDIAN ‘Magical’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ‘Suspenseful’ MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘Wildly inventive’ LIZ MOORE A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK In this dazzling debut novel, a young reclusive coder unearths the story of a lost Shanghai pencil company and a legacy of magic, espionage and family secrets that will alter the path of her life forever. Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer coding for a program that seeks to connect strangers online. A self-confessed recluse, she’s more comfortable navigating digital worlds than real-life friendships. The closest people in her life are her beloved grandparents who raised her. Her grandmother Yun rarely speaks about her past. Now, in her nineties, her memory is fading and with it, the answers to Monica’s questions about their family’s history – about her grandmother’s long-lost cousin, Meng, and the years they spent working together at a mysterious pencil company back in Shanghai. With the help of Louise, a young archivist, Monica decides to track down Meng and reconnect the cousins before it is too late. Her search unearths a legacy of magic, espionage and secrets that will alter the path of Monica’s life forever. ‘An intimate story of familial love and connection throughout the generations … you'll be gripped’ INDEPENDENT ‘A suspenseful family epic fueled by love and espionage’ MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘A reminder of how family ties shape us’ WOMAN & HOME ‘Allison King is a talent to watch’ LIZ MOORE, author of The God of the Woods ‘A beautiful ode to the warmth of family connection’ RAY NAYLER, author of The Mountain in the Sea ‘A stunning debut … had me smiling through my tears’ FONDA LEE, author of The Green Bone Saga
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13,49 €

Voyagers


With the imaginative soul and propulsive storytelling of Station Eleven and The Ministry of Time, Voyagers is a profoundly human, thrillingly original and brilliantly ambitious literary debut about friendship at the end of the world. If the world was about to end, who would you want by your side? When the Signal – a mysterious transmission pulsing from the edge of the solar system – arrives, the world changes overnight. Planes are grounded, satellites fail, humanity holds its breath. And Alex realises there’s no one he’d rather be with at the potential apocalypse than Ana. Because when they were six years old, Ana and Alex were abducted by aliens. Or at least, that’s what they told the rescuers who found them after their 36 hours missing in Palm Springs, and the story they stuck to as they became minor child stars. Now, as the Signal grows louder and the world devolves into chaos, the two race to meet each other for one final reckoning. VOYAGERS is a novel about friendship and family, celebrity and conspiracy, memory and mystery. It explores what it means to live by one story before, at last, having the courage to tell a different one. 'In Voyagers, Meg Charlton explores the connections between memory, storytelling, and truth. Against the backdrop of a global crisis, her characters contend with the lasting pain and confusion of a personal crisis. This novel grapples with the possibility of extraterrestrial life, but even more so with the possibility of friendship that is generous and forgiving. A delightful and moving debut' Helen Phillips, author of Hum and The Need 'Voyagers is a tender sweeping epic about the quest for the self. Meg Charlton asks, in elegant and compelling prose: 'Can we escape the terrible events of our past or make of them what we will? And what happens to intimacy when we share a past but remember it differently?'. At its heart, Voyagers is a story about storytelling – how it tears us apart and might bring us back together again' Taymour Soomro, author of Other Names for Love
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22,99 €

Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt


For fans of Fredrik Backman, Virginia Evans and Lisa Ridzén, an astonishing, deeply moving novel about finding beauty in the brevity of life, as narrated by the one who knows it best: Death. 'This book will change your life' Joanna Cannon'One of the most moving books I've read in a long while' Graeme Simsion'The ending left me speechless' Matthew QuickTravis lives an unassuming life with his cat in a small English town. Travis also happens to be the cosmic force of Death, visiting people in their final days and hours of life, before shepherding them into whatever happens next. He listens to their stories, doesn't judge, and never tries to change anyone's fate... until he meets a young, single midwife called Dalia and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter, Layla. As he gets closer to this small, seemingly unremarkable family, Travis begins to learn what it is that makes life so worth living, and so what it is that is irrevocably lost in death. Full of compassion and deep magic, Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt might be a novel about Death, but it's also about the joy of being alive - appreciating each day we have, from the people around us to the strange wonder of our spinning world. From the five-star reader reviews:'This book has changed me''Completely took my breath away''Absolutely blew me away''It touched me deeply''I want to stand on the rooftops and shout: you MUST read this'
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22,99 €

Godstorm


LOVE READING SCIFI/FANTASY BOOK OF THE MONTH A Female Gladiator's Vow. A Stolen Child. A Storm to End Empires In an oil-fuelled Roman Empire which never fell, Arrow - a gladiatrix turned governess - must rescue Livy, the child she never meant to love, a girl who could tear down the world. When Livy is abducted during a devastating Godstorm, Arrow must unleash years of the gladiator training she'd sworn to forget in order to save her. Defying her owner, a heartless Consul, Arrow turns to her ex-lover and the illegal druid underworld in a desperate attempt to rescue the girl she has tried not to think of as her own. Her search will take her across Londinium, a city of petrol-powered chariots, to the pagan Old Town, and eventually the edge of the known world: the Amazon, where destiny and destruction intertwine. Facing battle and betrayal Arrow must choose: reclaim her past as a killer-or risk everything for the child who might call her 'mother.' She is the Sword.
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17,99 €

Valentine Grey


From the author of BETWEEN THE STOPS and TOKSVIG'S ALMANAC'Teasing out untold stories of the battlefield . . . follows the footsteps of the likes of Sarah Waters and Pat Barker' Independent London, 1897. A young girl, Valentine Grey, arrives in England. She's been brought up in the remote and sunny climes of India and finds being forced into corsets and skirts in damp and cold country insufferable. The only bright spot: her exciting cousin, Reggie. Reggie, and his lover Frank seek out the adventure the clandestine bars and streets of London offer and are happy to include Valentine in their secret, showing her theatre, gardens - even teaching her how to ride a bicycle. And then comes the Boer War and Reggie's father volunteers him; the empire must be defended. But it won't be Reggie who dons the Volunteer Regiment's garb. Valentine takes her chance, puts on her cousin's uniform, leaving Reggie behind and heads off to war. And for a long while it's glorious and liberating for both of the cousins, but war is not glorious and in Victorian London homosexuality is not liberating . . .
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14,99 €

Such a Good Couple


SIX FRIENDS. THREE COUPLES. ONE HOLIDAY THAT WILL RUIN EVERYTHING . . . 'Exactly what I crave from popular fiction' MARIAN KEYES'Utterly gripping, glamorous, and emotionally devastating' LOUISE O'NEILL'Riveting' IRISH TIMESMAGGIE'S LIFE HAS NEVER LOOKED BETTER. She has a superstar husband, a Hollywood mansion and a stylist on call. No one, not even Fionn, knows how much she's struggling. ANNIE'S TRYING TO GET PREGNANT. So she's ignoring the fact that her relationship with Conor is crumbling. If they break up, how will she ever become a mothe? LARA THOUGHT OLLIE WAS HAPPY. Though the chaos of parenting means she and her husband are rarely in the same room. Then she spots a text on his phone that might blow their life up. A sun-soaked holiday brings the six friends together, each hoping to escape their problems. But soon champagne, secrets and harsh truths are spilled. When the first 'it's over' sends shockwaves through the group, will the other couples survive the fallout?'Thoughtful, daring, funny, sad and perfectly balanced' SUNDAY INDEPENDENTWhat people are saying about Sophie's books:'Sharp, funny ... with characters you'll fall in love with' BETH O'LEARY'Astutely observed, whip-smart and very, very funny' SARAH BREEN'A modern, witty, razor-sharp page-turner' EMER MCLYSAGHT
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13,49 €

Open Pen Anthology: Volume Two


The Open Pen Anthology Volume Two is a collection of short stories from the last five years of Open Pen Magazine, as well as new fiction from each of the contributing authors. In keeping with the format of Volume One, Open Pen favourites have been invied to contribute microfiction pieces that serve as page breaks. Open Pen''s short fiction has been called edgy, brave, and hilarious. Paul Ewen said we are more like a shot of absinthe than a boring pint of lager, and our output has kept its tongue firmly in its cheek for over a decade, debuting many literary talents that have gone on to publish celebrated and popular titles.
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17,99 €

The Last Place You Look


From the author of The Beach Party comes a glamorous and gripping summer thriller, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and Lucy Clarke's The Hike. 'A treat of a thriller, where dangerous marital games play out in an impeccably evoked safari setting' Louise Candlish, bestselling author of Our House'Totally unpredictable . . . the perfect summer read' Claire Douglas, bestselling author of The Family FriendLEO THOUGHT HE KNEW HIS WIFE. UNTIL SHE DISAPPEARED. Leo Kennedy has it all: money, looks, the perfect marriage and luxury homes in the UK and South Africa. But when his wife Addison goes missing, his immaculate life detonates. 48 hours later, Leo arrives at their safari lodge to retrace her steps. Only there's no sign of Addison. Instead, Leo is met with a scene of blood and chaos, and on the wall a missing poster, with his face, his name and his details. His wife may be missing, but someone wants Leo gone too . . . PRAISE FOR THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK ‘Secrets, lies and betrayal turn deadly in this page-turning summer thriller’ T.M. Logan, bestselling author of The Weekend 'A one-sitting read with incredible pace, a wondrously clever plot and a perfect ending' Andrea Mara, bestselling author of All Her Fault'Beautifully written and packed with nerve-shredding suspense' Fiona Cummins, bestselling author of All of Us Are Broken 'Utterly gripping . . . the perfect atmospheric summer thriller' Ellery Lloyd, bestselling author of The Club‘Move over Harlan Coban, Nikki Smith is coming for your crown' Jo Callaghan, bestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye
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13,49 €

Head Over Heels (Deluxe Edition)


"Karla's books hook me every time. She's a mastermind of romance." ?Brittainy Cherry, USA Today bestselling author ***Deluxe edition features a sprayed edge and bonus epilogue! There’s only one course of action when your dad wants you to marry a clammy-handed wimp to make one of his board members happy?you get yourself stuck in an elevator with a hot stranger and have the steamiest make-out session of your life. Years of etiquette lessons went out the window thanks to Cameron Wilder, who managed to unleash my hidden bad girl with naught but his talented mouth and deliciously rough hands. Afterwards, he went back to his small-town life, and I marched home to inform my dad there would be no business-centric nuptials. As punishment, he shipped me off to Sisters, Oregon and demanded I turn a healthy profit on a not-so-healthy property. You see where I’m going with this?the buttoned-up city girl stuck in a small town hires a local builder to help her…and he’s the hot stranger from the elevator. Turns out, I have a weakness for the broad-shouldered nice guy who’s not so nice behind closed doors. Keeping things professional gets harder the longer I’m in town, until the only lesson I have left to learn is how to keep both our hearts from getting broken. Head Over Heels features an opposites attract romance with rugged small-town charm and heartwarming family shenanigans. Welcome to the Wilder family!
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22,99 €

Long Wave


A hypnotic and haunting story of longing and survival, losing yourself and finding your family'Daisy Johnson's best novel... a multi-generational story of secrets, obsessions, and love' Jeff VanderMeer'Astonishingly beautiful' Kaliane BradleyClose to the shore is the island: uninhabited, wild, with only a storm-beaten lighthouse for shelter. Ori was found there as a small child with a handful of stones, no memories and no mother. When she has a baby of her own, the job of motherhood feels immense and sleepless nights begin to shatter her grip on reality. Her head fills with the sound of stones knocking against each other and the mystery of her past begins to unravel, opening up a path to the mother she lost, and the mother she could become. Years earlier, on a sweltering summer day, ten-year-old Ruth sees a woman and her baby walk into the river and disappear. But she is the only witness, and the water yields no trace. Ruth’s mother, Edith, locks her daughter away – first to restrain these wild imaginings, and later, when she falls pregnant, to hide the shame. Ruth longs to escape and dreams of the nearby island, where she and her baby can finally be free. 'A novel of startling force' C Pam Zhang'An unflinchingly observed treatise on the maelstrom of motherhood. Masterful' Kiran Millwood Hargrave'A fierce and magical writer' Liz Berry'At once devastating and heartening' Helen Phillips
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25,49 €

Slowly Dying Cause


A gripping Inspector Lynley mystery from the No. 1 international bestselling author. The Lynley TV series is available on iPlayer now.Amid the beauty of Cornwall’s coastline, the death of a local man shatters the peace with its violence . . .The body of Michael Lobb is discovered in his family’s tin and pewter workshop, and as Detective Inspector Beatrice Hannaford investigates, it emerges that Lobb was the only remaining obstacle preventing the purchase of local land by a mining company.The complexity of the case only increases as Lobb’s family life, rife with mistrust and deception, comes to light. The tangled web of intrigue soon draws in Bea’s colleagues, Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers, who must search for a killer in a community that has very little trust in outsiders . . .Praise of Elizabeth George:‘An essential writer of popular fiction today’ – Washington Post‘A superstar of the crime-fiction world’ – Seattle Times‘She writes extremely well, plots brilliantly and reaches an emotional level deeper than most’ – The Times‘She''s a designer of fastidious mosaics that never fail to intrigue’ – The Guardian‘Elizabeth George delivers another intelligent, intricate mystery’ – New York Times‘Presses all the buttons to make us hoover her stuff up’ – Daily Telegraph‘It feels like meeting old friends and that you''re almost solving the crime together’ – Belfast Telegraph‘Rich with descriptive detail and emotional nuance. Several alternating plot threads unspool at length, all of which weave tightly together with pleasing inevitability’ – Wall Street Journal
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13,49 €

A Haunting at Venus Bay


A home. A disappearance. And a mystery that spans a century…When Cass leaves London with a fractured heart, she plans to settle in Australia, specifically in the beautiful area of Victoria coastline where she spent so many happy holidays. Yet when she arrives, her house is not quite what she''d envisaged - doing a place up is one challenge, living with things that go bump in the night is quite another.Years earlier, Minna and her mother have escaped war torn Europe to join the fairgrounds. There, Minna meets Albert, a man clearly who wants a wife who will also be a full-time worker on the farm near Venus Bay. Albert has no interest in Minna, nor tolerance of her desire to become a writer. When he, and then Minna, both disappear, the mystery of what has happened to them stays buried, seemingly for ever…It will take Cass, and the discovery of a hidden book, to unravel the secrets of a childhood and a marriage, and a story that will also help her live again.Two women, decades apart, and a house that brings them together.Readers love A Haunting at Venus Bay:''A thoroughly intriguing, haunting and mysterious tale'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''The writing wove magical pictures . . . an exceptional story'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''An addictive and atmospheric dual timeline story'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''Compelling backstories of loss and haunting (literally and figuratively)'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''Well written and thought provoking'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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17,99 €

I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (I Survived Graphic Novel #14)


A vividly rendered graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis''s bestselling I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Peter Wartman.A day no one will ever forget... Danny Crane and his mom moved from New York City to Pearl City, Hawaii two months ago. Every day since, Danny has been making a plan to get back to NYC. He''s not afraid of the crime or dark alleys there. And he’s not afraid to stow away on the next ship out of Pearl Harbor.But that morning, the skies fill with fighter planes. Bombs pound the harbor. Bullets rain down on the beaches. Danny is shocked -- and, for the first time, truly afraid. He’s a tough city kid. But can Danny survive the day that will live in infamy?Lauren Tarshis''s New York Times bestselling I Survived series comes to vivid life in this pulse-pounding graphic novel edition. Perfect for readers who prefer the graphic novel format, or for existing fans of the I Survived chapter book series, these graphic novels combine historical facts with high-action storytelling that''s sure to keep readers turning the pages. Includes a nonfiction section at the back with facts and photos about the real-life event.
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13,49 €

A Particularly Nasty Case


When a toxic hospital consultant dies of a heart attack, fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play. Nobody else does though, including some quite crucial players like the police and the coroner. So when another senior doctor dies in similar circumstances, he's determined to prove there's more to these deaths than meets the eye.But following time off for his mental health, Eitan's friends and colleagues begin to question his judgement as his chaotic investigation and equally chaotic life spiral simultaneously out of control. Is he making a career-ending mistake, or could there genuinely be a killer stalking the wards?A deathly funny mix of mystery, murder and medicine, A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE is the brilliantly original debut novel from Adam Kay, BAFTA-winning author of multi-million global bestseller THIS IS GOING TO HURT.PRAISE FOR ADAM KAY'Richly comic. Kay's writing is a constant pleasure' Daily Express'Spectacularly brilliant' Cathy Rentzenbrink'Piercingly funny' Tanya Gold, Daily Telegraph'One of Britain's funniest writers' Grace Dent'Extraordinary' Observer
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17,99 €

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