Here is the complete history of the word still considered one of the most vulgar and offensive in the English language, from its debut in 15th-century England to the present day. Every sense of every word containing...
Meet the Plamglotis who, born without feet, swallows its hands to walk on looking for food. Unfortunately, when it finds food it can`t eat because its mouth is already full. The Underblenge has a snerbulent splench...
Gentle Axe (St. Petersburg Mystery)
An atmospheric mystery set in St Petersburg in the winter of 1867 sees detective Porfiry Petrovich taking his first murder case since Dostoevsky`s "Crime and Punishment". When two frozen bodies are found in a park, he...
As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who...
Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he...
A novel by the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality.
Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change...
Last Englishman: Double Life of Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what Rowling is today: author of a series of children`s books which shaped the imagination of a generation. Rooted in the heyday of the British Empire, "Swallows and...
Originally published in 1954, William Golding`s "Lord of the Flies" is one of the most disturbing and celebrated novels of modern times. A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of...
Precious stones pass through the hands of many people, hands that leave no apparent trace. But traces are there all the same - impressions, like the atoms of hydrogen drawn to the surface of a diamond. This story...
It is a perfect spring day in Istanbul. Kemal, a wealthy heir, is about to become engaged to the aristocratic Sibel, when he encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl. He falls in love and find his established world of...
