Obecná beletrie, Strana 3

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteenyear-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of her country...

The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife...

Four strong women. All working in a family business. But what happens when they begin to want different things? And what about the men – and the children – in their lives?...

Elizabeth Turner, aged just 25, stands in the position she has dreamed of - inheriting the family business, Deravenels. Over 800 years old, the company is a bastion of male...

It is 1945 and the war is finally over. For sisters Sophie and Maria, though, the upheaval is just beginning. For they have no choice but to leave their beloved home on the Isle...

Black Swan Green inverts the telescopic vision of Cloud Atlas to track a single year in what is, for 13-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire...

Jay Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscape of his childhood, to which he longs to return. A bottle of home-brewed wine left to him by a long-vanished...

"Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But...

A rich and wonderful selection of short stories. A TV chef who specialises in outrageous cakes tempts a monk who bakes bread for his brothers; a surprise visitor invites mayhem...

At the tender age of eighteen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years her elder she exchanges her Bangladeshi village for a block...

What happens when shyness prevents an adolescent love affair from developing? And what happens when, 11 years later, destiny brings the lovers together again? Pilar is now an...

Desperate to escape her loveless life on a Somerset farm, Deborah Morgan follows sheep farmer Patrick Prover, a veteran from Gallipoli, to Australia in 1922. At first Deborah...