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Dawne szlaki rzadko znikają, chyba że pochłonie je morze lub przykryje asfalt. Trwają pod postacią ledwo dostrzegalnych elementów krajobrazu, widocznych dla tych, którzy wiedzą, na co zwracać uwagę. Autor odkrywa zapomniany świat: trakty, drogi, szlaki handlowe i trasy, którymi podążali pielgrzymi. Pieszo i na rowerze, w upale i mrozie, przemierza południowo-wschodnią Anglię, północno-zachodnią Szkocję, Hiszpanię, Sichuan i Palestynę. Duchowym przewodnikiem w tej opowieści jest Edward Thomas, dwudziestowieczny pisarz i poeta. To prawdziwe „tour de force” jednego z najznakomitszych współczesnych brytyjskich pisarzy, łączące myśl filozoficzną z historią oraz bogatą wiedzą geograficzną. Macfarlane to mistrz brytyjskiej literatury podróżniczej, a jego proza urzeka urodą i innowacyjnym językiem. Jego teksty, pełne zmysłowych opisów, sprawiają, że żaden spacer nie wydaje się banalny. To misterna, fascynująca lektura, która przywołuje ducha miejsc zarówno znajomych, jak i nieznanych. Autor zręcznie łączy różnorodne dziedziny wiedzy, odkrywając zaskakujące okruchy informacji na każdym kroku. Jego pisarstwo jest niezwykle sugestywne i pięknie napisane, co czyni tę książkę wyjątkowym doświadczeniem literackim.

Książka wydana również pod tytułem "Dezinformator". Sam McCready to postać otoczona legendą w świecie brytyjskiego wywiadu. Przez siedem lat kierowania nim przeprowadził nie tylko wiele niebezpiecznych misji, ale i... narobił sobie wrogów „na górze”. Teraz oni właśnie mają uznać, czy wraz z końcem zimnej wojny Sam może jeszcze się przydać, czy też odesłać go na „zasłużoną emeryturę”.

Reissued to mark the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima, The AshGarden is a searing novel of three lives shattered by war, from a writer TheGlobe and Mail called "Canada’s next great novelist." • Winner of the Japan-Canada • A Globe100 Best Book of 2001 • Finalist for the 2003 IMPAC Award; the Amazon.com/Books in Canada FirstNovel Award; the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize; and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Caribbean and Canada Region)

In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice. Reissued as standalone books for the first time in many years, these are B. S. Johnson's most famous and critically acclaimed novels.

Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes's pupil and quickly hones her talent for deduction, disguises and danger. But when an elusive villain enters the picture, their partnership is put to a real test.

A powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town, from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author Aminatta Forna

"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love." PEOPLE Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life into an entirely different direction when a restless young man in a nylon jacket takes her hostage during the robbery--and soon the two are heading south into an unknown future, and a most unexpected fate....

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste.

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK 'Utterly engrossing' Guardian It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart and an iron will by Mrs Hill the housekeeper, is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a new footman, bearing secrets and the scent of the sea.

Exhilerating...irreverent, and extremely funny,"- "Ms," Seventeen and sure of nothing, Maria has left her parents' small-town grocery for university life in Dublin. An ad in the Student Union-"2 " FEMALE SYMBOL]" seek flatmate. No bigots."-leads Maria to a home with warm Ruth and wickedly funny Jael, students who are older and more fascinating than she'd expected. A poignant, funny, and sharply insightful coming-of-age story, Stir-fry is a lesbian novel that explores the conundrum of desire arising in the midst of friendship and probes feminist ideas of sisterhood and nonpossessiveness. Emma Donoghue is the author of the forthcoming "Slammerkin, Hood" "and Kissing the Witch" . Born in Dublin, she now lives in Ontario, Canada. "Stir-fry" was her first novel. Also Available by Emma Donoghue "Hood" TP 11.95, 1-55583-453-1 CUSA

For Neville "Bunt" Mullard and his mother, Betty, Hong Kong is part of Britain - one of the pleasanter parts; it is also cozy, monotonous, profitable, and homely. Now ninety-nine years of colonial rule are about to end, and the British government is about to hand over Hong Kong to China. Betty and Bunt can see China from their parlor, but they have never been there. They detest Chinese food. "The Chinese take-away, " as they call the Hand-over, does not particularly concern them. When Bunt first meets Mr. Hung, a well-spoken gentleman from the Chinese mainland, he pays him little heed. And when Mr. Hung offers the Mullards a handsome sum for their family business - a fifty-year-old textile factory, Imperial Stitching, that was cofounded by Bunt's late father - Bunt refuses him out of hand. Yet it soon grows clear that Mr. Hung is different from the Chinese the Mullards have lived alongside for years. For Mr. Hung will accept no refusals. Then a young woman from the Mullards' factory vanishes, one of many disappearances. But this one is different. Ah Fu has last been seen in the company of Mr. Hung. And so Bunt is forced for the first time in his forty-three years to make decisions that matter. He even begins, maybe, to discover love. Yet against all of Bunt's good, if half-formed, intentions are pitted the will of Mr. Hung and the looming threat of the ultimate betrayal.

'I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever' Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Nowa powieść autora fenomenalnego Życia Pi.Tym razem Yann Martel zabiera czytelnik�w w podr�ż po dwudziestowiecznej Portugalii i zakamarkach ludzkiej duszy.Lizbona rok 1904. Młody chłopak imieniem Tom�s znajduje stary dziennik.Mowa w nim o niezwykłym artefakcie, kt�ry ? o ile istnieje i o ile zostanie odnaleziony ? może odmienić bieg historii. Podr�żując jednym z pierwszych automobili, Tom�s wyrusza na poszukiwanie niezwykłego skarbu. Trzydzieści pięć lat p�źniej portugalski patolog, fan kryminał�w Agathy Christie, sam wplątuje się dziwną historię, a wydarzenia, w kt�rych centrum trafia, okazują się być konsekwencjami poszukiwań Tom�sa sprzed lat.

A successful career woman living in Sliver, a glittering Manhattan high-rise, discovers that someone is watching her every move. By the author of Rosemary's Baby. Reprint. Movie tie-in.

Drew Maclane was a star agent--until the day the killing had to stop. He withdrew and for six years lived the life of a hermit in a monastery. But someone has tracked him down, leaving a trail of corpses. Someone who knows all about him, who knows how to draw him back into that electrifying world where no one is as he seems, and where life's most horrifying and harrowing game is played....