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August Brill, 72, is recovering from a car accident. He tries to push back thoughts of things he would rather forget - his wifes death and the murder of his granddaughters boyfriend - by telling himself stories. He imagines a parallel world in...

Bohaterem książki jest Pat McNab, seryjny...

So, what do you do Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter... But now hes thirty-five years old and hes still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving...

When a colleague extends his summer vacation, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is forced to stay in Vig ta and endure the August heat. Montalbanos long-suffering girlfriend, Livia, joins him with a friendhusband and young son in towto keep her company...

A Far Country, Daniel Masons long-awaited second novel, is set in an unnamed part of South America, where 14-year-old Isabel leaves her drought-stricken rural home for an urban slum. She arrives in the settlements, expecting to be reunited with...

Prisoners is a remarkable book: spare, impassioned, energetic, and unstinting in its candour about both the darkness and the hope buried within the animosities of the Middle...

Jim Crace is a writer of great gifts. He is the poet of detail, the laureate of the mineral, the bacterial and the gaseous. The people in his books are often the subjects of these forces, their lives and struggles the background to an unending...

When We Were...

Queen Mum is the story of married mum Ally and her relationship with the family next door, in particular the beautiful Juno, who seems to glide through life with effortless grace. But when Juno takes part in the reality-tv show Queen Mum,...

A stunning novel about how the most banal of lives can be touched by grace in the most unexpected ways Johan has bargained with Death for years: when he was a boy, he prayed that Death take his father, not his mother; when he was a man, Death...

Literature and politics are inextricably intertwined and unified by moral purpose in this powerful collection of pieces (a couple not previously published in English or at all) by iconic critic and novelist Sontag (Regarding the Pain of Others),...

From the bestselling author of The Hours and Specimen Days comes a generous, masterfully crafted novel with all the power of a Greek tragedy. The epic tale of an American family, Flesh and Blood follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it...