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Andy Larkham má zpoždění. Má jít na pohřeb svého oblíbeného učitele, který mu kdysi řekl: „Nikdo to nemá jednoduché.“ Andy už vůbec ne – kariéra se mu zasekla na mrtvém bodě, právě má hluboko do kapsy a jeho snoubenka se ho chystá pustit k vodě. Pohřeb má však nečekanou dohru a Andy si musí položit otázku – co všechno udělá, aby svůj život změnil? Nicholas Shakespeare nás vezme na pozoruhodnou cestu, na níž zavítáme do Turecka počátku dvacátého století i do současného Londýna a setkáme se s pokušením, které skýtá nečekané zbohatnutí, s tajemstvími rozvrácených rodin i s cenou, kterou člověk platí za to, že sám sebe nezradí. Je to příběh o lásce, promeškaných příležitostech i o tragédii zrady. Je to skutečný moderní román.

Bruce Chatwin's death in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end, since he burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book, In Patagonia.'A magnificent work of empathy and detection'Colin Thubron, Sunday Times'Utterly compelling'Philip Marsden, Mail on Sunday'A fascinating account of the man behind the myth'Ian Thomson, Guardian schovat popis

The Peruvian guerilla leader Ezequiel is responsible for tens of thousands of fiendishly cruel murders, yet he consistently eludes capture. But in Agustn Rejas he has an indefatigable pursuer. From secluded city streets to the paths of a mountain village the policeman persists, tracking and anticipating Ezequiel's every move. Rejas' only reprieve is his love for his daughter's beautiful dance teacher--until he begins to pick up unmistakable signals that her circles--and Ezequiel's--intersect. Based on the extraordinary manhunt for the leader of Peru's notorious guerilla organization, The Shining Path, The Dancer Upstairs is a story reminiscent of Graham Greene and John LeCarr--tense, intricate, and heartbreaking.

Déle než 51 let čekal Florentino Ariza na novou příležitost, aby mohl Fermině Dazové vyznat nekonečnou lásku, na chvíli, až její 80letý manžel, slovutný lékař, zemře. Tehdy přichází chvíle pro kdysi opuštěného milence. Než se oba staří lidé spolu vypraví po řece Magdaleně, aby nedotčeni zlobou světa vpluli do elysia své lásky, stáčí se autorův pohled do jejich minulosti plné všedních věcí i nepravděpodobné krásy. Geniální vypravěč sestupuje do nížin triviální literatury a líčí své postavy v rozmanitých podobách lásky, lásky romantické i domestikované, lásky „osamělých lovců“ i lásky manželské. Na sentimentální příběh z lidové četby navěšuje vlastní vzpomínky a sny... Doslov: Hedvika Vydrová

A young Englishman goes to Cold War Leipzig for a weekend with a group of student actors and, during his brief visit beyond the Iron Curtain, falls for an East German girl who is just beginning to be aware of the horrendous way her country is governed. Her misery touches him, her love excites him, but he is too frightened to help. He spends 19 years suppressing the strength of his feelings for the girl he knew only by her nickname 'Snowleg' - until one day, with Germany by now united, he decides to go back and look for her. But who is she now, how will his having once abandoned her have affected her life, and how will he find her? Snowleg is the story of more than one sundered love, of both broken dreams and damaged families. The central figure of the novel, who grows up as an Englishman, chooses to live in Berlin. He is a senior doctor; but his life is a startling mixture of romantic, of erratic, of dissolute behaviour. For long years he nurses the secret of Snowleg and his longing for a love he had the chance to grasp but failed to take.

Thomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high flyer, but an affair with a younger woman has dashed his dreams of ambassadorship. He arrives in Abyla with his wife suing for divorce, his passport stolen by a Gibraltarian ape and precious little enthusiasm for the task ahead. His one hope of redemption is a visit from his new love.

In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a cast of unlikely characters from Errol Flynn to the King of Iceland, a village full of Chatwins and, inevitably, a family of Shakespeares.

"Nicholas Shakespeare's collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening novella, 'Oddfellows', tells the little-known history of the only enemy attack on Australian soil during the Great War, when, in January 1915, the outback town of Broken Hill was rocked by horrifying events. From this dramatic First World War encounter, we are taken to the faded glamour of 1960s Bombay, to a Bolivian mining town in 1908 where civic folly is running amok, and to an Argentinian farm presided over by a former air stewardess and her husband. Across ocean and continents, these are stories of connection and disconnection, misunderstanding and missed opportunities, identity and displacement."

The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. He began investigating the rumours that she had escaped a prisoner-of-war camp and fought for the Resistance - and he finally unearthed the truth behind suspicions of disreputable love affairs and far darker secrets.

Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. Twelve years on, he must return to Australia to deal with his inheritance. But the timeless beauty of the land and his encounter with a young woman, whose own life has been marked by tragedy, persuade him to stay. They marry, and he finds himself drawn into the eccentric, often hilarious dynamics of island life. Longing for children, the couple open their home to a disquieting guest, a teenage castaway, whose presence on the farm begins to unravel their tenuously forged happiness, while at the same time offering the prospect of a much greater fulfilment. Secrets of the Sea is Nicholas Shakespeare's finest novel to date.