Third book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC\'s The Watch \'The work of a prolific humorist at his best\' Observer The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor\' Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind\'s ability to make a better, truly communal society, the anarchist writings of Peter Kropotkin have influenced radicals the world over, from nineteenth-century workers to today\'s activists. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great

Akárcsak száz évvel ezelőtt, az iszlám világ, amely képzeletünkben a vakító fényben ragyogó roppant sivatagok, mecsetek és paloták színkavalkádját, a bazárok illatfelhőjét idézi - ma is képes elcsábítani a nyugatról érkezett utazókat. Akik ide látoga tnak, ma is megigézve hallgatják a koránolvasók vagy az imára hívó müezzin kántálását, és elbűvölik őket Az ezeregy éjszaka meséinek csodálatos történetei.

En planque sous les fentres de l\'appartement du neveu d\'un député, place de la Contrescarpe, Kehlweiler avise soudain une drôle de chose sur la grille d\'un arbre. Un petit déchet blanchâtre au milieu d\'excréments canins. Pas de doute, c\'est un os. Et mme un os humain... Naturellement, lorsque Kehlweiler apporte sa trouvaille au commissariat du 5e arrondissement, les flics lui rient au nez. Mais

Elio believes he has left behind his first love - but as an affair with an older man intensifies, his thoughts turn to the past and to Oliver. Oliver, a college professor, husband and father, is preparing to leave New York. The imminent trip stirs up longing and regret, awakening an old desire and propelling him towards a decision that could change everything. In Call Me By Your Name, we fell in love

Set in the pulse-pounding world of I Am Number Four, this fast-paced action-packed thriller follows the gifted students of The Human Garde Academy. When teenagers around the globe develop new superpowers - new Legacies, the Garde create an Academy where they can develop their gifts safely and a group of friends dubbed \'Fugitive Six\' banded together to ensure the Academy\'s continued safety. But a

Introduction by Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denial July 15, 1942, Wednesday Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o\'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I\'m separated from the world. Renia is a young girl who dreams of becoming a poet. But Renia is Jewish, she lives in Poland and the year is

The sequel to Jonas Jonasson\'s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they\'re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the

A little book with a big heart! \"I read this beautifully imagined and moving novella in one sitting, utterly wowed, wanting to share it with everyone I know.\" --Lisa Genova, bestselling author of Still Alice From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She\'s Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man\'s

The Ridiculous Precieuses * The School for Husbands * The School for Wives * The Critique of the School for Wives * The Versailles Impromptu * Tartuffe * Don Juan This memorable collection gathers the plays of the great social satirist and playwright Moliere, representing the many facets of his genius and offering a superb introduction to the comic inventiveness, richness of prose, and insight that

El Lazarillo de Tormes es una novela anónima del siglo XVI que narra la vida de Lázaro de Tormes desde su infancia hasta la edad adulta. Es una novela de autoformación; pero también es una descripción irónica, cómica y dura a la vez de la sociedad de la Espańa del siglo XVI. Con este libro se crea un género literario en Espańa: la novela picaresca. Temas: Aventura, Sociedad En esta publicación vas

Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is a tribute to three-michelin star restaurant, Osteria Francescana and the twenty-five year career of its chef, Massimo Bottura.

A captivating and lyrical journey into our ancestral past, through what and how we eat. Mo Wilde made a quiet but radical pledge: to live only off free, foraged food for an entire year. In a world disconnected from its roots, eating wild food is both culinary and healing, social and political. Ultimately, it is an act of love and community. Using her expert knowledge of botany and mycology, Mo follows

You Don\'t Know Us Negroes is the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world\'s most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Spanning more than three decades and penned during the backdrop of the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, Montgomery bus boycott, desegregation of the military, and school integration, Hurston\'s writing articulates the beauty and authenticity of Black

\'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?\' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past...A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro\'s beautiful and

Az Európa-szerte népszerű orosz írónő nem tesz mást A mi Urunk népében, csak mesél és mesél a végtelenségig, megunhatatlanul. Mindenről és mindenkiről van egy jó története: legyen szó önbizalom híján álló vagy bármit eltűrő nőkről, az apaság rejtelmeiről, őrangyalokról. Különösen érzékeny a csodákra, a kivételes eseményekre, ám ezeket is - például egy némának hitt gyerek szavait, az állatoknak tartott

He was the most beautiful man in Olympus. And if I wasn\'t careful, he was going to be my death. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Psyche and Eros that\'s as sinful as it is sweet.* In the ultra-modern city of Olympus, there\'s always a price to pay. Psyche Dimitriou knew she\'d have to face Aphrodite\'s jealous rage eventually, but she never expected her literal heart to be at stake...or for

Violet has always been in the shadow of her mesmerising, controlling brother Will - by turns delightful and terrifying. Now that Will has learned a shocking secret about his own past, things seem to be getting worse. Violet retreats further into her fantasy world built around the fairy characters created by her favourite author, Casper Dream. The arrival of Jasmine, a new girl at school who immediately