A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous.

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

'Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality' Ian McEwan

'A quirky, original, and baroque stylist' Margaret Atwood

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to b...

Todas las mañanas Emily ve a un señor mayor comiendo solo en un cafetín.

Esto le da tristeza, por lo que un día decide entrar y hablar con él.

El señor pronto empieza a compartir sus mejores recuerdos con Emily.

Y ella llega a entender que estar solo no siempre significa sentirse solo.

Una historia emotiva y conmovedora sobre una hermosa amistad,

que demuestra que el amor sobrevive incluso hasta después de la muerte.

Para niños de 5 años en adelante.

Una historia de violencia, amor, desarraigo y esperanza

Viena, 1938. Samuel Adler es un niño judío de seis años cuyo padre desaparece durante la Noche de los Cristales Rotos, en la que su familia lo pierde todo. Su madre, desesperada, le consigue una plaza en un tren que le llevará desde la Austria nazi hasta Inglaterra. Samuel emprende una nueva etapa con su fiel violín y con el peso de la soledad y la incertidumbre, que lo acompañarán siempre en su dilatada vida.

Arizona, 2019. Ocho ...

What if moments of great difficulty are, in fact, opportunities for growth and self-discovery? What if they can serve as stepping stones to greater things in life?

Modern life doesn't always go our way. Loss, rejection, uncertainty and loneliness are unavoidable parts of the human experience -- but there is solace to be found.

In When Things Don't Go Your Way, Zen Buddhist teacher Haemin Sunim provides simple but powerful wisdom for navigating life's challenges. Through his trademark combinat...

TWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Barry writes bout unconditional love better than anyone I have ever read. Ever.' MELISSA HARRISON

'Amazing. . . For page after page, I found myself thinking, how does he do that?' DAVID NICHOLLS

'His work reminds us how much we need these rare gifts of the natural storyteller.' TESSA HADLEY

'Nobody writes like, nobody takes risks like, nobody pushes the language, and the heart, and the two together, quite like Sebastian Barry does.' ALI SMITH

'Full ...

The debut novel from one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists: a virtuoso, metaphysical thriller and a modern day retelling of The Heart of Darkness..

When reporter Quentin Jones investigates a shadowy military programme during the desert war, he discovers cutting edge technology that simulates reality during interrogation, As the shadowy labyrinth of governmental corruption unfurls and tightens around him, unnerving links to his protégé Bruce keep emerging, who disappeared into the...

Foute mannen en (erg) naieve vrouwen, een bekende gevaarlijke combinatie. Criminélen en goedgelovige meisjes... Agénten met losse handjes en te lieve meisjes... Elvin Post speelt met zulke personages een spannend en grappig spel in 'Geluk voor twee'. De altijd fortuinlijke drugskoerier Lars, aka Lucky, komt op een zeer verrassende manier in contact met een paar gedweeë vrouwen die toch hun mannetje staan als het erop aankomt.

A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian

In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.

Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for...

THE JAPANESE BESTSELLER

A PERFECT READ FOR CAT-LOVERS

Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives ...

We meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a holiday island shows a young boy not to stand in nature's way; a family is perplexed by their cat's devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father; a woman curses how her cat constantly v...