The Dark Room - Rachel
Rachel Seiffert’s absorbing, internationally acclaimed debut explores the modern German psyche through the experiences of three ordinary people. At the onset of World War II, a young photographer’s assistant is kept out of the war due to a physical disability, and instead spends his time capturing
The Acid House - Irvine Welsh
The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab
Underground. The Tokyo Gas
The true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national disaster. In spite of the perpetrators' intensions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thounsands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. The novelist Haruki Murakami
Through the Window: Seventeen
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers: a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him throughout his illustrious career. In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special
Selected Poems - Wystan Hugh
Zbiór wierszy W. H. Audena zebranych przez Edwarda Mendelsona.
Farewell Espana: The World of
In 1492, on the eve of Columbus's voyage, the last professing Jews in Spain were driven from the lands where they had known tolerance during seven centuries of Islamic rule. Those Sephardim who remained could not only do so as New Christians. Those who left became the seed of Jewish civilizations
The Game - A.S. Byatt
Cassandra, an Oxford don, and Julia, a best-selling novelist, are sisters who share disturbing memories of a bizarre childhood game - and of Simon, who loved them both. The memories re-surface when they see Simon on a television programme, and their relationship is played out to a fatal finish.
Black Boy - Richard Wright
At four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home; at five his father deserted his family; by six Richard was - temporarily - an alcoholic. Moved from home to home, he had had, by the age of twelve, only one year's formal education. It was in saloons, railroad yards and streets that he
The House on Mango Street -
The House on Mango Street is a coming-of-age novel by Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros, published in 1984. It deals with a young Latina girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago with Chicanos and Puerto Ricans. Esperanza is determined to "say goodbye" to her impoverished Latino
