Autor Tracy Chevalierová
Benátky, rok 1486. V ostrovných sklárňach na Murane horia pece vo dne i v noci a tajomstvo výroby benátskeho skla sa dedí ako najvzácnejšie rodinné bohatstvo. Orsola Rosso vyrastá v sklárskej rodine, no od detstva jej vštepujú, že ženy do tohto sveta…
`A stunning story' Guardian `Vivid and engrossing' Financial Times I don't remember there ever being a time when I weren't out upon beach. Mam used to say the window was open when I was born, and the first thing I saw when they held me up was the sea.…
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FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING 'A triumph… a brilliant idea carried out with confidence and brio and a deep love of an extraordinary city. The ingenuity of the time-skipping is beyond admiration' PHILIP PULLMAN 'Spellbinding….…
Remarkable Creatures is an inspiring novel of how one woman's gift transcends class and social prejudice to lead to some of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century. Above all, it is a revealing portrait of the intricate and resilient…
Violet is 38. The First World War took everything from her. Her brother, her fiance - and her future. She is now considered a 'surplus woman'. But Violet is also fiercely independent and determined. Escaping her suffocating mother, she moves to Winchester…
`I loved it. So compelling and warm and subtle, and very moving' Bridget Collins, author of The Binding `Deeply touching ... careful, beautiful' Louisa Young, author of My Dear I Wanted To Tell You It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are…
An international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence.
From the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular…
Londýn 1792.Ve vzduchu je cítit nervozita ze stále krvavější francouzské revoluce. Tehdy přichází do hlučného a nemilosrdného velkoměsta z vesničky Dorsetshire rodina Kellawayových. Mezi Jemenem, jejich nejmladším synem a londýnskou uličnicí Maggie vzniká…
Po Macbethovi od Jo Nesbeho vychází v shakespearovské edici tentokrát Othello. Sám proti bílým. Získá spojence, než naposledy zazvoní? Amerika 70. let. Ghanský chlapec Osei je zkrátka outsider. Stěží na tom cokoli změní jeho přátelské způsoby, odhodlání,…