The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions). 'A wonderful noir thriller and tremendous rediscovery' - William Boyd, Main, Paperback - Emeric Pressburger

Nothing is more inviting to disclose your secrets than to be told by others of their own ... London, June 1965. Karl Braun arrives as a lodger in P...

The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ... 'An exhilarating experience ... As their journey into the interio...

Muscular yet gentle, vegetarian, and excellent at housework, Larry the frogman is a revelation: and their passionate affair goes beyond their wilde...

Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt: Durrell's epic modern classic, introduced by William B...

'It was a wrong number that started it . As Art Spiegelman explains in his new introduction, David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik 'created a strange...

This forgotten novel by the Pulitzer-winning poet is a miniature wonder, chronicling one woman's coming-of-age in 1940s Chicago. What, what, am I t...

A selection of Shakespeare's poems and dramatic speeches, along with the author's accompanying essay. It intends to show how Shakespeare's language...

As the two men's association hurtles towards tragedy, Robert is forced to confront whether actual events are the only things that give a story life...

From Edgar Award-winning Chris Pavone, author of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller The Expats, comes a riveting time-bomb of a thrille...

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. In 1798 he published the Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge, settling shortly after...

he asked people to record themselves and used a range of techniques, from asking them to tell him something important to choosing an arbitrary ques...

When a young writer dies before completing his first novel, his teacher, Jake, (himself a failed novelist) helps himself to its plot. The resulting...

She doesn't remember. He won't let her forget. When Claudia Castro wakes up in her dorm room on the first day of spring break, she knows immediatel...

But then one drunken night everything changes. Her memory hazy, Claudia cuts herself off from her family, seeking solace in a new friendship, but w...

Reducere. "Lucidly written and illustrated." -- The Glass EngraverIf you've ever admired the exquisite beauty and craftsmanship of Steuben, Tiffany, Orrefors...

Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger and a New York Times Notable Book, 2012They said Pastor Chamblis was a good man. They said he could...

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 ...

Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning vision of prehistory on the cusp of a new age, from the radical Nobel Laureate and author...

The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author'He wanted to know who she was, and wh...

Oliver is eighteen and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country...

Reducere. It's 1969, and, having just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James Bond--British special agent 007--is summoned to headquarters to receive an u...

Both are single parents living in wealthy suburbia, independent, highly competent and seemingly settled in their lives.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuth...

William Golding's final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Her ambiguous attitude to the god and her beli...

Lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the second novel in the Booker Prize-winning Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.Publisher: Fa...

One man's vision of erecting a magnificent cathedral spire heralds apocalypse in this epic tale of obsession by the radical Nobel Laureate and auth...

The epic imaginative enterprise [is] as formidable a feat as the year-long odyssey it charts.' Sunday Times'Golding writes the past as present [wit...

Introduced by Annie Proulx. lose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by th...

Meet the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece in this transporting tale of the classical world by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of th...

With wit, colour and clarity, What A Wonderful World quickly and painlessly brings us up to speed on how the world of the 21st century works.

A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author...

Weathering lightning strikes of memory, he must now reconstruct his fate - piece by terrible piece. 'Wizardry of the first order.' Observer'Terrify...

Golding seduces us, transfixes, bewitches and confounds us.' Nicola Barker'The most powerful, and strangest, of all Golding's novels, and one of th...

'What the doctor ordered . . . What he doesn't realise is that encountering an illness and understanding it are two quite different things . . . An...

Phone calls from a woman claiming to be the 'real' Aubrey. Aubrey's just a character Gerry made up in a book, years ago. Can Gerry see past the eve...

Bernard Leach (1887-1979) is generally reckoned to be the 'father of British studio pottery. In this title, he communicates his deeply-held convict...