Shardlake goes to war.It\'s Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII\'s invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel.Meanwhile, Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Asked to investigate claims of \'monstrous wrongs\' committed against his young ward, Hugh Curteys, by Sir Nicholas

Textiles owe their development to religion, commerce, exchange and travel, and their vibrant and creative preservation to tenacious regionalism. Artists and designers from India, Mali, Madagascar, Morocco, Burkina Faso and Nigeria have reinvigorated art a

Women have been pioneering photographers since the earliest days of the art form. This expertly curated set of three volumes in the renowned Photofile series brings together 190 women photographers from all over the world, working in all styles and genres. From the imaginative experiments of the 19th century to the thriving art movements of the 20th century and on to the digital world of the 21st century,

When the immoral libertine Monsieur de Franval marries and fathers a daughter, he decides to inculcate in her a sense of absolute freedom, an unconventional education that involves the two becoming secret lovers. But Franval\'s virtuous, God-fearing wife becomes suspicious and confronts him, setting off a tragic chain of events.

A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation. The advent of the French Revolution confirmed the worst fears of the rulers of Europe. They saw their states as storm-tossed vessels

In India, at the birth of the last century, an infant is brought howling into the world, his remarkable paleness marking him out from his brown-skinned fellows. Revered at first, he is later cast out form his wealthy home when his true parentage is reveal

\'It is impossible to explain why Yevgeny chose Liza Annenskaya, as it is always impossible to explain why a man chooses this and not that woman.\' This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy\'s creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Stories

Elijah Baley has faced Departmental hostility since his return to Earth from the planet Solaria, where he solved the first murder to be committed in 200 years. Against his will, a hyperwave drama was made of the case, thanks to Delmarre, the murder suspect whom he proved innocent.

When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero\'s doorstep prophesizing a plague of rabies in their Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Maria, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive. Sierva Maria appears completely unscathed - but as rumours of the plague spread, the Marquis and his wife wonder at her

With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful

Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank\'s mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital, and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre

What happens when an Englishman, an American and a Frenchwoman drive across the USA in a Mini.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená o bálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.

1984. Skotnyi dvor

Von Kleinstadthelden, der Liebe und anderen Neurosen. Joe hat es geschafft. Nicht nur der spießigen Provinz den Rücken zu kehren, nein, er hat einen Bestseller geschrieben - ein bitterböses Buch über seine Vergangenheit. Mit sehr vielen beabsichtigten

Sam is 27 and needs to get a job. Keith, who claims to be a second cousin of his (absent) father, offers him one. On Keith\'s card it says he does `distribution and delivery\', which seems to consist of `a lot of driving around, getting out of the car for a few minutes and then getting back in\', Sam tells his mother. And so the days go by, Keith driving to a trading estate, ducking into a portakabin,

It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. \'Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you\'re a dead man!\' he says. The mutiny on the Bounty happened in

Jean Giono was born in 1895 in Manosque, Provence, and lived there most of his life. He supported his family working as a bank clerk for eighteen years before his first two novels were published, thanks to the generosity of André Gide, to critical acclaim. He went on to write thirty novels, including The Horseman on the Roof, and numerous essays and stories. In 1953, the year in which he wrote The

Mike doesn\'t get why people think he\'s boring. Sure, he doesn\'t have many friends. (OK, zero friends.) And everyone laughs at him when he reads his essays out loud in class. And he\'s never invited to parties. But one day Tschick, the odd new boy at school, shows up at Mike\'s house out of the blue. He dares him to go on a road trip with him. No parents, no map, no destination. Will they get hopelessly

Saturday, November 23rd, 2013. It was just another day in America; an unremarkable Saturday on which ten children and teens were killed by gunfire. The youngest was nine; the oldest was nineteen. White, Black and Latino, they fell in suburbs, hamlets and ghettos. None made the national news. There was no outrage about their passing. It was just another day in the death of America, where on a daily

o one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man\'s; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied. Yet across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans