Жанр "Книги"

The average adult spends about a third of his or her waking time alone.

Yet research suggests we aren't very good at using,...

It is the hottest August in living memory.

A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. From the moment he invites her...

'Isn't the life of any person made up out of the telling of two tales, after all? The whole world makes more sense if you...

'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral....

A strange craft falls from the stars and crashes into the jungle near an isolated West African community. Inside, the locals...

The January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's 'The January Man'. Month by month,...

This is not a parenting manual. This is real life.

The Unmumsy Mum writes candidly about motherhood like it really is: the...

What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world?

It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a...

There's no such thing as a happy ending , is there …?

Sunita - perfect housewife - is married to Akash, but is her marriage...

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections,...

You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful...

In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human...

All Marnie wants is somewhere to call home. Mourning lost years spent in a marriage that has finally come to an end, she needs a...

This novel from the Sunday Times bestselling Trisha Ashley will more than satisfy romantic comedy fans. And it also contains...

Alice Rose is a foundling, discovered on the Yorkshire moors above Haworth as a baby. Adopted but then later rejected again by a...

The witty, weird and wonderful abound in this early romantic comedy by Sunday Times bestselling author Trisha Ashley.

Tina...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man of over forty is in possession of a major defect . . .

Cassandra...

Sappho Jones stopped counting birthdays when she reached thirty but, even with her hazy grip on mathematics, she realises that...

Snap Decisions Can Be Dangerous...

On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their...

They wanted the same things. Death - and an audience.

Eve Singer makes her living from death. As a TV crime reporter, she'll...

Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the...

Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people.

It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by...

Young Mary Newton, born into a large Irish family in a small Watford semi, was always getting into trouble. When she wasn’t...

From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, - soon to be a major movie...

Farouk's country has been torn apart by war.

Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe.

John's past torments him as he...

An old man looks into the fearful eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn...

At Christmas, Anything Can Happen...

Thea's parents decide to host a big family Christmas in a house by the sea... even...

Beijing, 2008, the Olympics are coming, but as taxi driver Wang circles the city’s congested streets, he feels barely alive. His...

The brand new laugh-out-loud Daisy adventure for readers of 6-9, from bestselling author of the Oi Frog series, Kes Gray.

Here...

A poignant book about new horizons and saying goodbye from best-loved creators: John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury

Miles is a...