1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man\'s Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget -

On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd\'s cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night...In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of shepherds

Cathy and Chris, haunted by the tragedies and sins of the past, return at last to Foxworth Hall, where they were hidden long ago. Despite every endeavour, they find that they are prisoners of a past they cannot escape and the past comes back to prey upon them once more.

Packing a punch from the very first page. You will love The Smiling Man\' Jane Harper, author of The Dry From the bestselling author of Sirens, Detective Aidan Waits is on the hunt to find the identity of The Smiling Man. Disconnected from his history and careless of his future, Detective Aidan Waits has resigned himself to the night shift. An endless cycle of meaningless emergency calls and lonely

Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard\'s lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself. Houses and rooms; cellars and attics; drawers, chests and wardrobes; nests and shells;

Commissioned by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, these tales of dangerous women by the most stellar names in fiction are available for the first time in three-volume paperback. George R.R. Martin is the bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO\'s hit series GAME OF THRONES. This third volume features an original short story by Joe Abercrombie. \'Some Desperado\' centres

Energetic and cosmopolitan, the Batrakani family fate is entwined with that of their adopted land, Egypt, as it is caught in the upheavals of the 20th century. Georges Bey Batrakani is the patriarch of this family of Greek Catholic, French-speaking Syrians, living in a Muslim Cairo run by the British. He is driven by the need to achieve the wealth necessary for the luxury he craves. His chosen method

This phrase book has been compiled by experts to meet the general needs of tourists and business travellers. Arranged under headings such as hotels, driving and so forth, the selection of words and phrases is supported by a 1800-line mini-dictionary. There is also an extensive menu guide listing approximately 600 dishes or methods of cooking and presentation. Typical replies to questions you may ask

The one who knows the secrets is the one who holds the power. The richest of New York\'s rich gather at The Pierre\'s Cotillion Room to raise money for those less fortunate. The mayor is present, along with Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald of the elite NYPD Red task force providing security. The night is shattered as a fatal blast rocks the room, stirring up horrifying memories of 9/11. Is

A radical look at Jane Austen as you\'ve never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain\'s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time. Jane Austen loved the theatre. She learned much of her art from a long tradition of English comic drama and took joyous participation

Stunning three-volume slipcased set containing the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien’s life and works ever published, including synopses of all his writings, and a Tolkien gazetteer, who’s who and chronology. The three volumes contained in this slipcase, written by two of the foremost experts on J.R.R. Tolkien, comprise the definitive handbook to one of the most popular authors of the

Neodolatelná celobarevná publikace obsahuje inspirující soubor 150 nejzajímavějších kuchyní. Představuje nejrozmanitější současné trendy s důrazem na používané materiály, osvětlení, barvy, ale i zařízení jako stoly, zdi, podlahy apod. Text v angličtině.

This title is winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is

Voil un coin de campagne o l\'on a de drôles de façons... La foire aux vieux, par exemple. Curieuse institution ! On sait bien aussi que tous les enfants peuvent voler comme des oiseaux ds qu\'ils étendent leurs bras - mais est-ce une raison suffisante pour les enfermer derrire des murs de plus en plus hauts, de plus en plus clos ? Le psychiatre Jacquemort se le demande puis ne se le demande plus,

A Boston, de nos jours. Des jeunes femmes sont retrouvées a leur domicile, apres avoir été torturées et tuées. Meme modus operandi que ceux d\'un serial killer qui avait sévi en Géorgie trois ans auparavant. Mais pour la brillante Jane Rizzoli et son équipier Thomas Moore, inspecteurs de la brigade criminelle, cette nouvelle enquete s\'annonce plus déroutante que Jamais: le tueur en question a trouvé

This series of Readers containing original, unsimplified stories written by famous classic and modern writers, now features four new titles. All the collections come with substantial support material for each story, including a short summary, a description of major themes, pre-reading vocabulary activities, post-reading language and comprehension exercises, a literary analysis section and essay questions.

The people of Tep\'s Town are desperate. Monstrous invaders have emerged from the desert, and people are being slaughtered. Danger on the roads means no trade. No trade means that Tep\'s Town itself will die. The fire god Yangin-Atep has retreated into myth, leaving the town\'s residents unprotected for the first time in its history ? and they now face an army of fearsome birds with blades for wings,

Best known as the creator of the world\'s most famous equation, E=mc2, Albert Einstein\'s theories of relativity challenged centuries of received wisdom dating back to Newton. Without his groundbreaking work in relativity and quantum physics, our knowledge of the cosmos might lag decades behind where it is today. But Einstein was not only an extraordinary scientific thinker. He was a humanitarian who

Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learners own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Anglický text.