Moscow, during the collapse of the Soviet system: In a hospital, young people awaiting heart operations and possible death, live just for today with mischief-making and even love affairs, under the stringent gaze of the old matron, Baba Nastya. Here one of the patients, a young Turkmen, meets a Greek Comsomol boy, a Russian Stalinist with a 'robotic' heart, and the lovely but tragic Mary. To whom does the future belong - to the soulless robots or the poetical souls?

Just when the situation on planet Earth is becoming unbearable, a mysterious man shows up to save the day. According to Time Bender our planet is the most precious jewel of the cosmos, because it carries the DNA of just about every species in the universe. That’s why our forefathers called it the Living Library and many galactic wars have been fought over her. As time is short and the stakes are high a pact of friends is formed to save the Living Library from the grips of evil. Time Bender ...

With a beautiful and understanding wife, two healthy, promising children, a spacious apartment and a partnership in Pym and Bingley, Henry Preston Standish has nothing to be desired. Or has he? He decides to dispel the routine and make a cruise to Hawaii...

Overboard is a masterpiece, on a par par with Tolstoy's 'Death of Ivan Ilyich' and Bunin's 'Gentleman of San Francisco'.

By the author of The Handmaid's TaleNow a major NETFLIX seriesSometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks.

Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery. 'Brilliant... Atwood's prose is searching.

So intimate it seems to be wri...

Her last completed novel, marrying witty social realism to a 'Cinderella' love story, Jane Austen's "Persuasion" is edited with an introduction by Gillian Beer in "Penguin Classics". Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and still single, seems destined for spinsterhood. In her youth, she broke off an engagement to penniless Captain Wentworth at the insistence of her friend Lady Russell, acquiescing to the demands of her class at the expense of her happiness. But when Wentworth returns from the Napoleoni...

Mary wants to know what love is. After having been in a marriage without passion, she tries to get love from men who have nothing to offer her. Then she meets Richard. He tells her about his view on life and then everything changes. She talks to Richard once a month, to discuss matters as the circle of captivity, nonduality, concepts and how ‘to Richard’. Gradually, she realises that everything has changed and that she herself has also changed. In her search for love she is often desperat...