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Twenty-Twenty Vision


Christine Beckett is faced with some home truths when her best friend, suffering from dementia, decides after a lifetime to be honest with her; Olivia Fletcher has an epiphany at a vaccination centre about a man who has loved her for decades; Bernard Travers revisits an unlikely romantic interlude with the mother of his teenage pen pal that has sustained him for 40 years. Twenty-Twenty Vision is a collection of interlinked short stories about hindsight and late middle-age regret subtly framed within the first year of the pandemic. It’s also a portrait, an emotional map of the 1950s generation moving into the third age with a mixture of apprehension and regret. The characters make chastening discoveries – one finds after a lifetime that she’s a bullying victim, another draws up a curriculum vitae of her emotional life when there are no jobs left to apply for. The work focuses on a handful of characters – Christine, Olivia, Bernard, Freddie, Triona and Eva – as they revisit their past and grapple with late-life perspectives. The overarching narrative is connected by character and situation, and united in theme, to form a tapestry of late middle-age reckoning.
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The Great Wherever


THE DEAD ARE RELENTLESS GOSSIPS, OR AT LEAST THESE DEAD ARE... A year after her father's death, Aubrey learns she has inherited a share of a farm on the sun-streaked plains of Tennessee. Seeking a way to erase a mounting pile of debt, she travels South to meet a family she barely knows. Watching her arrival are four ghosts: Aubrey's ancestors, and the keepers of the farm's secrets. As Aubrey gets to know her living relatives, the story of the land unfolds - her great-grandfather who bought it, one of the first Black landowners in the community, the four children set to inherit it, their bitter rivalries, and a tragedy that echoes through the decades... With the sale of the farm looming, the ghosts face exile, and Aubrey must decide how much of her future she is willing to sacrifice to the claims of the past. Dazzling and expansive, The Great Wherever is a multigenerational portrait of the American South, exploring land and legacy, race and generational wealth, and the sharp fragments of the past - how they spark and shine against the surface of our ordinary lives.
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The Invisible Girl


Three supernatural tales of longing and loss from the grand-dame of Gothic fiction, Mary Shelly When a storm drives their boat towards the rocks, a group of sailors is saved by the light of a ruined tower. The locals speak of the Invisible Girl who haunts it – a lost, wandering soul. But the truth is more disturbing, and far more human, than any ghost story. Includes the stories: The Invisible Girl, The Mortal Immortal and The Mourner BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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Venus Smiles (and Other Vermillion Sands Stories)


Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims. Out over the towering Coral D, sky artists paint the sky with clouds. A musical statue is broken down, but finds new life in unwanted places. A mysterious new resident introduces a new way of making poetry - aided by machine. Drawing together some of the most mesmerising and mind-blowing stories from J.G. Ballard's Vermillion Sands art-infused universe, this short collection is a passport into the genius of science fiction's most visionary pioneer. Includes the stories: Cry Hope, Cry Fury!, The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral-D, Venus Smiles and Studio 5, The Stars BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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Young at the Time


From one of the great Chinese authors of the twentieth century, these newly translated stories illuminate the most intimate matters of the human heart Since childhood, Ruliang has sketched the same face in the margins of his books, tracing its lines without knowing why. Years later, he meets Cynthia – and recognises it at once. As their lives draw together and drift apart, what once seemed like fate begins to feel more uncertain. In these brief, evocative stories, Eileen Chang traces the pull of memory, love and chance. Includes the stories: Young at the Time, Blossoms Afloat, Flowers Adrift and Those Old Schoolmates They’re All Quite Classy Now BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies


A magical, mystical novella about the art and power of storytelling, this is Italo Calvino's miniature masterpiece. A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then in a tavern. Having mysteriously lost their powers of speech, they must tell their tales using only a deck of tarot cards. As their stories interlink and overlap, a fantastic, surreal and chaotic history of the human quest for meaning unfolds. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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The Dead


At a Christmas party, a revelation shatters a man's complacency forever At a winter gathering in Dublin, friends and family come together for an evening of music, conversation and ritual. As the night unfolds, small tensions surface, and a chance revelation alters one man's understanding of his life and his marriage. The Dead is James Joyce's masterful story of memory, loss and awakening. Quietly devastating, it captures an essential realisation of life that lingers long after the evening ends. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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České úlohy


Spisovatel a filozof Ladislav Klíma byl v roce 1895 jako šestnáctiletý kvůli protidynastickému výroku ve školní úloze vyloučen nejen z domažlického gymnázia, ale ze všech rakouských škol. Mnozí to považovali za neštěstí, on sám za osvobození. Po 130 letech byl objeven inkriminovaný sešit jeho slohových prací, za něž byl opakovaně kárán a trestán. Jejich první vydání provází životopisná esej, která rekonstruuje Klímova školní léta a objasňuje některé širší souvislosti. Kniha obsahuje i protokol o vyloučení a nově nalezený protokol z vyšetřování, tedy záznam rozhovoru-výslechu probíhajícího mezi ředitelem školy a žákem. K vydání připravil a úvodní studii a ediční komentář napsal Matěj Klíma.
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21,99 €

Missing in Soho


These are the last words of stabbed private investigator Sylvester Green – before he is whisked away by ambulance from Soho’s Lady’s Bar. Lady’s Bar’s glamorous owner, drag queen Misty Divine, hears in his words both a warning and a puzzle. Perhaps that’s why she’s less than candid with the police. Because Misty has Sylvester’s notebook, which hints that she’s connected to the case he wanted to solve – the disappearance of Jeremy Edmunds. But who is Jeremy? And will whoever hurt Sylvester come for Misty next? With danger at her heels, Misty is determined to follow Sylvester’s clues and help bring Jeremy home. But the deeper she digs, the more she realises that the link between her and whatever Jeremy was caught up in threatens to destroy everything she holds dear – including her beloved Lady’s Bar. Can Misty find Jeremy, save Lady’s Bar, and solve the case? Or will the next disappearing act be her own…
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The Anatomy of Magic


Where falling in love could be the last mistake you ever make. In the city of Valveron, an elite academy seeks to control all magic. But in the darker districts, every kind of power is for sale. If you can pay the price. Nina Veyr has a dangerous secret-illegal magical abilities she cannot explain. If the city's enforcers found her, she would be executed... or worse. For years, Nina has stayed in the shadows, picking pockets and smuggling enchanted relics to get by. Then she steals from the wrong man. Max Antonin is the most powerful crime boss in the city. Cold, deadly, and breathtakingly attractive, Max has his sights set on Nina, and nothing will stand in his way. But when Nina is framed for a shocking murder, Max offers to help her find the true killers. She knows she can't trust him-that deals with a devil always come at a cost. But there's no way she can survive on her own. As they follow a trail of bodies into the city's underworld, Nina feels a dangerous attraction pulling her ever closer to him. Can she trust her life and her heart to Valveron's most ruthless criminal? The Anatomy of Magic is a thrilling fantasy romance full of searing chemistry and razor-sharp banter. It's perfect for fans of Callie Hart, Carissa Broadbent and Elise Kova.
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17,99 €

The Family Friend


'Claire Douglas is a class act - she never, ever disappoints' LISA JEWELL When Imogen inherits a country house near Bath, she thinks it's a mistake. She last saw its owner, reclusive artist Dorothea Roe, sixteen years ago, during a tragic summer which she's never forgotten. But a chance discovery in the study leads Imogen to believe Dorothea left her a secret message. And when rumours begin to swirl that Dorothea was murdered, she suspects that the house might not be the life-changing gift she thought. Who would want to kill Dorothea? Could it be tangled up in Imogen's own dark family history? And what if Imogen is now the one in danger?
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White Rabbits/Down Below


Playful, sharp and fantatsical: a new selection of writing by Leonora Carrington, the last great Surrealist In 1940, Leonora Carrington - a twenty-two-year-old British-born Surrealist artist - was persuaded to flee France and the advancing German army for Spain. Already suffering from a psychotic break occasioned by the arrest of her lover by the Nazi authorities, she was soon confined to a mental institution, where she was subjected to sadistic treatment under the guise of medical care. In her memoir, Down Below, she describes her experiences with an anthropologist's precision and an artist's sense of the fantastic. This volume also includes a selection of Carrington's best stories from across her lifetime, functioning as companion pieces to her surrealist-inflected non-fiction. They include 'The Debutante', in which a young woman, wishing to avoid a ball in her honour, swaps places with a hyena; 'White Rabbits', which sees a friendly neighbour come by to ask for spare decomposing meat; and 'My Flannel Knickers', in which a woman has sainthood forced upon her.
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You Won’t Get Free of It


Real-life stories of mothers and daughters - of what we inherit, what we bury and what we, finally, find the courage to say - by the award-winning New Yorker staff writer. 'She is simply brilliant' Anne Enright 'A beautiful, thoughtful and probing writer' Daisy Johnson You Won't Get Free of It tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other and for themselves. Aviv explores the complexity of this relationship in seven essays, six originally published in the New Yorker and reconceived for this intimate, revelatory book. Aviv writes about one mother searching for her vanished daughter; another who sacrifices herself for her daughters by working as a nanny for other people's children. In the final story, a daughter's traumatic experience is erased by her family, only to be recast by her mother, the writer Alice Munro, in stories celebrated around the world. You Won't Get Free of It is an astonishing exploration of the competing dynamics of knowing and unknowing, recognition and refusal, that shape our most foundational relationship.
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Stachanovec in Space 3


Ve třetím dílu plném dobrodružství naši hrdinové po střetu s brazilskou lodí, které má tragické následky, konečně dorazí na planetu Delta Pavoniss IV. Hned po vstupu na oběžnou dráhu je zasáhne tajemný paprsek, a přinutí je tak k nouzovému přistání. Podaří se Luďkovi, Momo, Filipě a Akiovi vyváznout z toho bez úhony a vrátit se domů? Poslední část trilogie o Luďku Stachanovském je příběhem o přátelství a obětavosti, plným napětí, akce a emocí, prodchnutým nostalgií i nadějí na lepší budoucnost.
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Trujkunt 9: Tramwaj na Sachsenberg


Tramwaj Cafe je kavárna v polském Těšíně a zároveň místo, kde se sbíhají všechny nitky související s dalším brutálním zločinem, který musí vyřešit Roman Saran, major ostravské kriminálky, a jeho tým. Jak spolu souvisí hlava mrtvé dívky nalezená před několika měsíci na ostravském nábřeží a zmizelý fotograf pornografických aktů Josef Bielica? Proč fotografova manželka žádá o pomoc Romanova nejbližšího kamaráda Marka Hotu, ale o policii nechce ani slyšet? Má to něco společného se šuškandou, že Bielica se zapletl s ruskojazyčnou mafií? Roman Saran si tentokrát musí poradit nejen se zločinci a netrpělivými nadřízenými, ale i s pubertální dcerou, a tím pádem definitivně vyřešit svůj vztah s pražskou policistkou Ninou.
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Láska, děti a peníze aneb Labutě z pařížský


Volné pokračování seberozvojových bestsellerů Labutě na nádraží nepatří a Labutě jdou na draka. Lze číst i samostatně. Kniha vám čtivou a zábavnou formou umožní překódovat vaše vzorce v oblasti vztahů, peněz a rodičovství. Překročit velké životní limity, stejně jako hrdinům knihy. Příběh knihy mimo jiné obsahuje také téma sešívaných rodin i bezdětných párů. Ženám pomáhá více pochopit muže a mužům ženy. Láska, děti a peníze aneb Labutě z Pařížský je transformačním nástrojem, přinášejícím možnost změny životního postoje nejen ve vztazích. • Seberozvojový román, který s lehkostí umožní překódovat vaše životní vzorce, ať už jste žena nebo muž. • Přináší pochopení, přijetí, uvolnění se ve vztahu k sobě i druhým. • Kniha ukazuje, jak vědomě tvořit svůj život i své vztahy. • Záměrem knihy je rozpustit některé omezující programy ve vztazích na straně mužů i žen
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As I Dream of You


Falling in love is supposed to hurt. That’s what Franny and Sam, two cynical teens raised on tales of heartbreak and loss, have come to understand. But when they fall for each other, they find the reality of love is something else entirely - it’s electrifying, effortless, all-encompassing, and easy. Theirs is a love that can conquer anything… maybe even death. After a shocking accident ends the couple’s life together before it can really begin, Sam finds himself drowning in thoughts of Franny. He simply can’t imagine a world without her in it. And soon, he doesn’t have to. In a series of vivid lucid dreams that blur the line between reality and fantasy, the two find each other again and vow to never separate. But as time goes on, cracks begin to form in their perfect world, and unsettling truths become harder and harder to ignore. This heartrending yet life-affirming romance from Disney’s Jennifer Lee is paired with breathtaking, career-best art from LeUyen Pham. The result is a sublime YA graphic novel that’s poised to become a classic.
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The Fatal Eggs


What begins as a miracle of science soon turns into a nightmare... After a plague wipes out all of Russia’s chickens, eyes fall on zoologist Periskov and his strange discovery that promises to revive their population. But quickly, the state’s attempt to control nature spirals rapidly out of control, and soon all of Moscow is under siege by creatures they hadn’t bargained for. The Fatal Eggs is Mikhail Bulgakov’s savage, darkly comic tale of progress gone wrong. Blending satire with science fiction, it captures the dangers of unchecked power – and the absurdity of believing that catastrophe can be neatly managed. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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The Old Man and the Sea


Hemingway's enduring story of resilience and solitude: One of the most powerful tales of courage and endurance ever written An ageing fisherman sets out alone into the Gulf Stream, determined to prove that his strength and skill have not left him. When he hooks a great marlin, he begins a struggle that will test his pride and his place in the world. Simple, powerful and deeply moving, The Old Man and the Sea captures what it means to persist - even in the face of inevitable loss. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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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