Meet Holly Golightly – a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly is a style sensation wherever she goes. Her apartment rocks to Martini-soaked parties and

Third book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC\'s The Watch \'The work of a prolific humorist at his best\' Observer The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .

Based on period documents and photography, the book maps in detail the development of Czech non-university sciences from the 18th century when the Society of Unknown Scholars in the Austrian Lands was founded in Olomouc. The main attention is focused on the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and its most important precursors, whether the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, active in 1953–1992,

In the world of page-turning thrillers, Dan Brown holds a special place in the hearts of many of us. After his first book, Digital Fortress, almost passed me by, he wrote Angels and Demons, which was probably one of the half-dozen most exciting thrillers of last year. It is a pleasure to report that his new book lives up to his reputation as a writer whose research and talent make his stories exciting,

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain\'s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is

Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn\'t exist. She hadn\'t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she\'d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn\'t believe in hospitals. As she grew older, her father became more radical and her brother more violent. At sixteen,

How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction. He lived to give us this gripping description of his descent into mental anguish, and his eventual success in

\"The love child of John Green and Rainbow Rowell.\" (Teen Vogue). Straight people should have to come out too. And the more awkward it is, the better. Simon Spier is sixteen and trying to work out who he is - and what he\'s looking for. But when one of his emails to the very distracting Blue falls into the wrong hands, things get all kinds of complicated. Because, for Simon, falling for Blue is a

A captivating and lyrical journey into our ancestral past, through what and how we eat. Mo Wilde made a quiet but radical pledge: to live only off free, foraged food for an entire year. In a world disconnected from its roots, eating wild food is both culinary and healing, social and political. Ultimately, it is an act of love and community. Using her expert knowledge of botany and mycology, Mo follows

From Colm Toibin comes \"New Ways to Kill Your Mother\", a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families. In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm Toibin not only explores the often tense relationship between writers and their families but also conveys, with a rare tenderness and wit, the great joy of reading their work. Here is W.B. Yeats harshly responding

The unmissable first novel from bestselling and award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. \"If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.\" Miles Halter\'s whole life has been one big non-event, until he meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous, clever and undoubtedly screwed-up, Alaska draws Miles into her reckless world and irrevocably steals his heart. For Miles, nothing can ever be the

Agal’s desire to save his mother rushes him to the Dead Woods. However, he is yet to find the fate that awaits him during his unicorn hunt. Instead of the award for the hunt, he has to face the battle against the dark powers of the wood as well as the battle with his own inner demons. Agal blames himself more than once for the journey he decided to take. Facing his own death, the potter’s son grows

A Vámbéry-sorozat legújabb kötetében, az Oroszország és a Kelet c. könyvben Vámbéry, ahogy azt már tőle megszokhattunk most is pontos elemzést nyújt olvasója számára, ezúttal Oroszország és Ázsia viszonyát illetően a maga idejében. Írásából kiderül, hogy a nagy orientalista előre látta a nagy orosz kolonizációs terveket és az arra való felkészülést, valamint a brit és az orosz érdekek szükségszerű

In Tanger betrachtet eine Gruppe von jungen Leuten jeden Abend, wie die Lichter in Spanien angehen und träumt vom Exil. Bis wohin sind sie bereit zu gehen, welchen Preis sind sie bereit zu zahlen, um ihr Land verlassen zu können? Eine der Fragen, der dieser Roman von Tahar ben Jelloun nachgeht.

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material that will instantly appeal to students. \"The Pink Panther 2\" is based on the film of the same name, a follow up to the hugely successful \"Pink Panther\" film of 2006, starring comedy actor Steve Martin.

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material that will instantly appeal to students. \"The Mask of Zorro\" is based on the hugely successful movie of the same name and the character of Zorro will be immediately recognisable to teens of all nationalities.

June Newton, renowned under her photographic pseudonym Alice Springs, takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from her childhood in Australia, via work and travels with her husband, Helmut Newton, to life today in LA and Monaco. The photographs by and of Springs featured throughout the book—a wonderful contemporary mix of personal snapshots and professional portraits of creative figures including

No 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

Freud\'s religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. In Mass Psychology and Analysis of the \'I\' he explores the notion of \'mass-psychology\' - his findings would prove all too prophetic in the years that followed. Writings such as A Religious Experience and