Ten Thousand Things (Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction), Paperback - John Spurling

Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2015), The Ten Thousand Things takes us on a journey across fated meetings, grand battles ...

Taking inspiration from the incomparably beautiful and intense poetry of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Spurling - a lifelong classicis...

Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. A doctor looks back on the patient whose dark secret changed his understanding of wha...

Reducere. Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether ...

A supervolcanic explosion in 1815 led to the extraordinary 'Year Without Summer' in 1816 - a massive climate disruption causing famine, poverty, re...

* Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2003. * A powerful, startling novel set in America's Deep South in the early 19th century - a story of fre...

"Originally published in Great Britain by Viking, March 2019"--Title page verso.

Through the prisms of memory and art, award-winning author John Spurling reimagines the tumultuous period of the Glorious Revolution and brings to ...

10-year-old Marsha is in turmoil following the collapse of her parents' marriage, and the brutal murder of a local boy. When the shy bachelor from ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)Author(s): Shamsie Kamila ShamsieNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 214 x 135 x 27Cover typ...

Reducere. In Wild, Cheryl Strayed writes of The Ten Thousand Things "Each of Dermo t's sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off l...

For readers of Wilbur Smith, Jeffrey Archer and Bryce Courtenay, as fast-paced adventure story and the winner of the best unpublished manuscript ca...

An atmospheric debut novel set in 1970s Leeds and Sheffield when attacks on women punctuated the newsPublisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Sally J...

A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the bestselling author of An American Marriage

Reducere. Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, a devastating story of displacement, war, and the unlikely glimmer of hope in the dark

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Damon GalgutNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 23Cover type: Paperback / sof...

From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures a...

This exhibition catalogue on one of the art world's leading ceramicists will appeal to both fans of his minimalist ceramics as well as fans of his ...

This breathtakingly beautiful debut is a love letter to the written word and the power of stories to open doors to other worlds

Publisher: Little, BrownAuthor(s): Craig RussellPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 32Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Kamila ShamsieNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 224 x 34Cover type: Hardba...

A 115-year-old man lays on his deathbed as the 2016 US election results arrive, and revisits his life in this moving story of love, fatherhood, and...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The special hardback edition of David Purdie's inspired reworking of Sir Walter Scott's classic historical novel. Archaic syntax and extraneous det...

Reducere. It is the time of the Scottish Jacobite uprising of 1745 which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart, known a...

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, Amity and Prosperity is a powerful and beautifully-written story of the energy boom's impact on a small town in ...

Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Craig RussellNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 37Cover type: Paperbac...

Modern London and an uncanny presence living in the rivers and canals come together in the first new novel in seven years from one of SF's best-rev...

A wrenching, gripping, unforgettable debut crime novel for fans of Susie Steiner and Tana French.

Now longlisted for the International Booker Prize, a cabinet of curiosities exploring notions of loss and disappearance by one of Europe's finest a...

A stunning new voice in British literary fiction, for fans of Sara Baume and Sally Rooney.

'For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make ...

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as many other awards, Andrea Levy's SMALL ISLAND is a delicately wrought and profoundly moving nove...

A heart-wrenchingly moving first novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his...

The first novel truly to capture the story of Ireland during the BSE crisis, shown through the small, deeply intimate stories of four people caught...

Reducere. Sir Walter Scott was the first English-language author in literary history to have international success during his actual lifetime. His works were...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Jenny OffillNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 199 x 137 x 19Cover type: Paperbac...

Each day calls us to tend life beyond ourselves. Dancing with the Ten Thousand Things helps you answer that call and become a more powerful healing...