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Historické romány
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Novely, poviedky, antológie
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Humor a satira
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Fejtóny, rozhovory, reportáže
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Eseje, úvahy, štúdie
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Skutočné príbehy
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Erotická beletria
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Citáty, výroky, aforizmy, príslovia, porekadlá
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Dráma, divadelné hry, scenáre
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Beletria - ostatné
Detektívky, trilery, horory 
Sci-fi a fantasy 
Svetová beletria 
Romantická beletria 
Komiksy 
Historické romány 
Česká beletria 
Slovenská beletria 
Novely, poviedky, antológie 
Humor a satira 
Fejtóny, rozhovory, reportáže 
Eseje, úvahy, štúdie 
Skutočné príbehy 
Erotická beletria 
Citáty, výroky, aforizmy, príslovia, porekadlá 
Dráma, divadelné hry, scenáre 
Beletria - ostatné
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Šest vran, 4. vydání
Za peníze se dá koupit všechno! Nebo aspoň to platí v Ketterdamu, ve kterém se nikdo nevyzná lépe než Kaz Brekker, fenomenální podvodník a zloděj. A když se objeví neodolatelná zakázka? Je čas sehnat si pomocníky. Zloděj, trestanec, hazardní hráč, černá ovce rodiny, špionka a kráska-zabiják – šest nebezpečných psanců, kteří se pokusí dostat se do nejstřeženější pevnosti světa. Podaří se jim vyváznout se zdravou kůží?
Age of Magic
Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious mountain village. Eight film-makers arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain.Over the course of three days and two nights, the travellers will find themselves drawn into the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake. One by one, they will be disturbed, enlightened, and transformed, each in a different way.The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.
Salutation Road
* An Esquire Best Book of the Summer *‘Beautiful, thought-provoking and meaningful’ - Nussaibah Younis, Women''s Prize 2025 shortlisted author of Fundamentally''A bold, intriguing act of imagination'' - Aube Rey Lescure, Women''s Prize shortlisted author of River East, River West‘We may look the same, but I am not you . . . We share nothing but a reflection in the mirror’Twenty-three-year-old Sirad Ali is a woman adrift. Abandoned by her father in childhood, doing her best to support her mother and younger brother in their small flat in South London, she can’t help but wonder if this is the life she really wants.One morning, Sirad boards her bus to work and finds herself transported to an alternate timeline in present-day Mogadishu. Over the course of a single day, under the sweltering East African sun, Sirad must contend with a lost reality. There she encounters an almost unrecognizable version of her family and comes face to face with her double, Ubah – the woman she could have been, had her parents never fled to London during the Somali Civil War.Back home in Greenwich, Sirad must go on with life, consumed by all she now knows. But then Ubah mysteriously appears in London, and Sirad begins to understand that nothing will ever be the same again . . .Salutation Road by Salma Ibrahim is a beautifully told literary debut for fans of Nadifa Mohamed and Mohsin Hamid.
Some People
Unfortunately, some people are family...Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughter''s soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan Whitlock, playing nurse in her home while she recuperates. And yet her doctor insists on in-home supervision for seven days, and with her daughter, Kavya, studying in India, Nathan proves too much of a do-gooder to let Malti rehabilitate alone. They want nothing to do with one another. But over the course of the week, as Malti grapples with the shadows of her past and Nathan ponders the wreckage of his marriage, they learn that they are the two people who know Kavya best - and the ones who have hurt her so deeply that she''s left them both entirely.Rich with emotional depth, Some People paints a nuanced portrait of love, forgiveness and our timeless quest for understanding and acceptance.
Smrtelně raněný
Hledání ztraceného času v Neapoli, ve městě, které vás „smrtelně raní, nebo vás uspí, anebo obojí současně“.
Mladý absolvent práv Massimo De Luca se chystá odejít z rodného města, ve kterém vždy „vítězí Příroda nad Historií“. Zároveň by ale chtěl ještě jednou prožít „krásný den“, který je v jeho vzpomínce spjat se sluncem, s mořem a s věkem naděje, kdy na jeho život ještě nedopadl temný stín Velké promarněné šance. Smrtelně raněný, román, za nějž Raffaele La Capria získal v roce 1961 významnou Cenu Strega, je dnes už klasickým dílem moderní italské literatury. A přestože se čtenáři zpočátku trochu vzpírá – vrhá ho do víru vnitřních monologů, unáší ho v proudu vědomí, pohupuje jím jako ve vlnách mezi několika letními dny od závěru druhé světové války až do jedné neděle roku 1954, kdy se Massimo se svým městem loučí –, zároveň ho uhrane svou sugestivní atmosférou stesku i radosti, bezstarostnosti i úzkosti, energie i ochromení, vitality i prázdnoty.
Poválečná Neapol, která se v rukou stavebních spekulantů a zkorumpovaných politiků marně pokouší stát moderním velkoměstem, okolní letoviska a ostrovy, jež jsou dějištěm sladkého života smetánky z celého světa, kluby a bary, kde zlatá mládež řeší zásadní otázku, zda je lepší šampaňské značky Veuve Cliquot, či Pommery, věčné neapolské mládí, které zdegeneruje v senilní stáří, aniž prošlo katarzí dospělosti a zodpovědnosti, Massimovy návraty, jež jsou jen opakující se honbou za přeludem, za časem, který už může nalézt jedině ve snu. Opojný koktejl La Capriova textu ovlivnil řadu významných umělců, jedním z jeho velkých obdivovatelů je režisér Paolo Sorrentino, který svému krajanovi a jeho tvorbě vzdává hold skoro v každém svém filmu.
Book of Lost Hours
A sweeping, cinematic historical fantasy about memory and community for fans of The Ministry of Time, The Midnight Library and The Book Thief._________________''If you loved The Ministry of Time, you''ll adore this!'' SUN ON SUNDAY''Cold-war spy thriller, soaring fantasy and heart-rending romance. Captivating'' IRISH INDEPENDENT''A love story that defies the boundaries of time, memory and reality'' Patti Callahan Henry_________________Nuremberg, 1938. Lisavet Levy''s watchmaker father saves her from the Nazis by pushing her through a mysterious doorway. There, she discovers the Time Space - a vast, magical library where the memories of everyone who has ever lived are stored in books. Her father promises to follow, but he never comes.Trapped in the library, she encounters timekeepers, who decide whose memories survive and whose are destroyed.Lisavet tries to save as many memories as she can, but when she falls in love with a timekeeper, the whole course of history could be at stake...___________________Readers are loving The Book of Lost Hours''Truly such an incredible book''''It soars because of the characters''''Hard to put down''''Clever, beautiful, genre-bending''''A fabulous debut''
The Midnight Shift
Love is the most despicable excuse.On the lonely outskirts of Seoul, reports come in of a series of suicides at a hospital. The strange and bloodless nature of the elderly victims is dismissed by most, but not Detective Suyeon. As Suyeon begins her investigation, a mysterious woman named Violette appears at the crime scene and gives Suyeon the answer: a vampire did it. The two women begin the hunt for an ancient, supernatural culprit which, in turn, reveals a landscape of modern isolation in a dark, nocturnal Seoul. But as the investigation unfurls, past and present romance and loneliness intertwine it becomes increasingly clear that they, too, are being hunted.Sometimes the monsters we seek are less frightening than being alone. The Midnight Shift is a gripping mystery, overflowing with commentary about societal isolation and loneliness, the sharp knife of grief, and the effects of marginalization, perfect for readers of Cursed Bunny; Woman, Eating; and A Certain Hunger.
North and South
A beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's most famous novel
'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'
Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move from the country to an industrial northern town, she develops a passionate sense of social justice, and a turbulent relationship with mill-owner John Thornton. North and South depicts a young woman discovering herself, in a nuanced portrayal of what divides people, and what brings them together.
This is a stunning new Clothbound Classics edition of Gaskell's famous novel, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Murray Hall
New York, 1901. Murray Hall is dead.
A powerful politician, gambler and celebrated man about town, Hall seemed to have lived an extraordinary life. But when news of his death breaks, the papers reveal a secret he kept buried for decades, one that shocks the city and captures the world's attention.
As an ambitious young journalist races to uncover the truth, Hall's life emerges as a masterclass in reinvention, ambition and survival. From Scotland to New York's political elite, this is the story of a man who rose high by staying silent, concealing a queer past that history was determined to erase.
Inspired by a true story of one Scot's rise to prominence, Murray Hall finally brings all the puzzle pieces together to discover the secret of this extraordinary, ordinary man, which shocked New York, America and the world.
Homo Criminalis
Crime doesn't just pay, it tells. What we choose to ban, penalise or prosecute says something about us; and how far the mobsters and mafias are still able to ply their trades says something about us, too.
Homo Criminalis tells a thrilling tale of the world's changing values, the rise of the state and the emergence of modern society, through the evolution of the underworld and its crimes. From Chinese banditry and eighteenth-century English tea smuggling to today's cocaine submarines and the high-tech crimes of tomorrow, this book aims to shows just how far society has changed - and how crime has changed with us.
Often considered marginal or an aberration, we'll see how the power structures and power struggles of the criminal world have actually worked to drive progress, forming the necessary dark underbelly of humanity's evolution.
The Bells of Nagasaki
‘A book that everyone should read’ The Times
A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki – and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.
On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them.
Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once the city’s university hospital, Takashi bundles together a tattered group of survivors. Doctors, nurses, students, each with their own losses, their own fears for the future: they work tirelessly at the impossible task of aiding the countless wounded and easing the deaths of those they cannot save. They remain determined to heal their fallen city, to find solace and hope among the rubble, even as a strange and growing sickness begins to claim them.
Eyewitness to one of the most fatal events in human history, this is Takashi’s record, written from his sickbed – a chilling historical document, and undeniable evidence of the capacity for human kindness.
Published now in the UK to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM RICHARD LLOYD PARRY
The Eleventh Hour
Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities
If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.
‘Salman Rushdie is a genius’ A.M. Homes
Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy during national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight's Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English university college, an undead academic asks a lonely student to avenge his former tormentor.
These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home – India, England and America – and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life.
Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
The Memory Police
On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . .
Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those who remember live in fear of the Memory Police.
To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river, or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed.
When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?
Newes of Witches
From the bestselling author of Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month The Specimens comes a new historic novel set during the Scottish witch trials filled with confessions and betrayal.Rural Scotland, 1629. Amidst the bogs and corn fields, children are going missing, and others seem to have fallen under a malevolent spell. When a young serving girl is imprisoned on suspicion of witchcraft, it falls on healer and midwife Catrona to uncover the truth behind the matter.However, investigation only raises more questions, and soon a violent truth comes to light which threatens to upend local life. As tensions in the community reach a fever pitch, allegiances shift, lives unravel, and Catrona struggles to save the life of an innocent girl. But in a village gripped by fear and paranoia, this may demand the greatest sacrifice of all.
Šepot kolibříka
Po tragické smrti rodičů Alexandra přijde o domov i o pocit bezpečí. Ve snaze postavit se znovu na nohy pracuje po nocích v supermarketu, kde pozná Dalibora – staršího muže, který jí nabídne útěchu, jistotu a možnost na chvíli zapomenout. Jenže bezpečný přístav, který u něj nalezla, se postupně začne rozpadat. Alex se propadá do vztahu plného manipulace, alkoholu a násilí, ze kterého není snadné uniknout. Když zjistí, že je těhotná, rozhodne se alespoň tentokrát bojovat za každou cenu. Někdy ale stačí jediný okamžik, aby se celý život obrátil naruby. Kolik bolesti člověk vydrží, než přestane věřit, že si zaslouží něco lepšího? A jak dlouho zvládne kolibřík tlouct křídly, než vyčerpáním spadne k zemi?
Krásné zelené oči, 3. vydání
Hance Kaudersové, patnáctileté plaché zrzce se zelenýma očima, nikdo v polním nevěstinci neřekne jinak než Kůstka. Jako jediná z celé rodiny přežila vyhlazovací tábor Auschwitz-Birkenau a nyní se snaží za každou cenu zůstat na živu. Výrazný, napínavý příběh vypovídá o bezbřehé lidské krutosti, jak fyzické, tak duchovní.
Tento román vyšel poprvé v roce 2000 v USA a ve Velké Británii, kde byl velice kladně hodnocen kritikou i čtenáři. Pro české vydání autor knihu zrevidoval a doplnil o pasáže, které v zahraničí publikované dílo neobsahovalo. Roku 2003 byl román navržen na Pulitzerovu cenu.
Comic Destiny
Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.In The Comic Destiny, Ben Okri brings together poetry and story in a fascinating new form, the ‘stoku’, which offers a key to the true spirit of our times. Refined over many years, these stokus are deceptively simple. They are to be slowly savoured: a new kind of music is being played. They point towards a deeper truth, a more transcendent way of looking at our existence.Each tale is a tiny epic, a delicate world in itself. They flow easily, but burn slowly. When strung together they form a necklace of enigmas, and offer unusual glimpses of freedom.
Freyja
'A thrilling mystery under a cold Icelandic sun. This beauty is an absolute page-turner.' - Satu Rämö, author of The Clues in the Fjord'An Icelandic tale, a haunting mystery, and a paean to the messy bonds of family.' - Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women'A spectacularly eerie crime novel . . . had me turning pages late into the night!' - Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites__________________________________________________________Years ago, a child went missing. Now it might happen again.Unnur is a single mother to her beloved daughter, Lilja, and lives a deliberately quiet life in Reykjavík, working at a bakery under a fake name and trying to forget the last summer of her childhood. But when her ex-husband returns to Iceland with his new girlfriend, Unnur's carefully crafted reality begins to fray.Because years ago, Unnur's childhood best friend, Freyja, disappeared and maybe this new woman had something to do with it. Maybe she might do the same thing to Unnur's daughter.Faced with the risk of losing her daughter, Unnur must look to her past and remember what happened all those years ago. Where did Freyja go? And what did Unnur do?Steeped in Icelandic folklore and myth, Freyja is at once a gripping story of a child's disappearance, a testament to the power of a mother's love, and an enthralling tale of redemption and forgiveness from a gifted new voice.__________________________________________________________ 'An eerie novel that will keep you up late into the night.' - Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child'Mythic and atmospheric . . . A twisty, compelling read.' - Janelle Brown, author of What Kind of Paradise'A haunting, hypnotic novel . . .' - Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman'A dark, glittering jewel of a debut.' - Crystal Hana Kim, author of The Stone Home'There's plenty of terror-and even more love-in these pages.' - Gin Phillips, author of Ruby Falls'Original, stunning, and unforgettable.' - Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Counting Backwards'Freyja will chill you to the bone. . .' - Melissa Larsen, author of The Lost House
(Mostly) Human Resources
''Creepy cryptids, a compelling slow burn romance, and corporate humour blend together perfectly in this excitingly unique debut... (Mostly) Human Resources is a must read'' Mallory Marlowe, USA Today bestselling author of Love and Other Conspiracies''Viall’s debut is a tongue-in-cheek delight, pulling from multiple genres to create a tale that is both unsettling and cosy... Five creepy stars!'' Brigitte Knightley, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your EnemyAmongst mountains as old as time, the jackalopes and ghouls are the least of your worries…At Entity — the organisation responsible for managing the world’s monsters — Alexys is perfectly happy honouring her late father’s legacy from behind a desk, far from anything with teeth. But when she heads into the Appalachian Mountains for a routine review with her newly assigned Warden, Elliot, she finds… nothing. Elliot has vanished. And after his reports of sightings of a never-recorded creature, Alexys can’t ignore the danger he might be in. Against all her instincts, she pushes deeper into the mountains to find him.Nic, Entity’s ambitious (and irritatingly charismatic) Director of Research & Cataloguing, refuses to let the chance to investigate an undocumented monster pass him by. And if joining the search means annoying his favourite work-nemesis, he’s already lacing his boots.But as Alexys and Nic descend into the ancient Appalachians, they begin to learn why some monsters stay unrecorded… and why no one should wander these mountains after dark.***Readers LOVE (Mostly) Human Resources: ‘With high stakes, creepy cryptids, a cute romance and a bespectacled love interest, (Mostly) Human Resources is an exceptionally fun read’ - NetGalley reviewer, 5*It’s like a treasure trove of monsters, mayhem and mystery. A sort of lovechild of Scooby Doo, Mallory Marlowe/Jo Segura, Ali Hazelwood and The Office - NetGalley reviewer, 5*I LOVED it! Alexys and Nic as the new Scully and Mulder? YES. Plus creepy Appalachian cryptids, a missing person, and a terrifying monster in the woods?! - NetGalley reviewer, 5*I’m not exaggerating when I say (Mostly) Human Resources is AWESOME. Easily one of my favourite reads of the year - NetGalley reviewer, 5*A missing persons case, romantic tension and super creepy scary critters of the Appalachian mountains tied this story up into a gorgeous cosy horror bow - NetGalley reviewer, 5****The first instalment of a new cosy and creepy series following the employees of Entity, where not every monster stays in the shadows – and survival is never guaranteed.
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 Karika, Dominik Dán, Róbert Bryndza, Kristína Tormová, Urbaníková Evita, Táňa Keleová Vasilková a Stephen King.
