Ta kategoria dedykowana jest współczesnym czytelniczkom literatury kobiecej. Bardzo szeroki wybór romansów, kryminałów, powieści obyczajowe, poruszająca literatura kobieca, erotyki, harlequiny polskich i zagranicznych autorów. Każda lubiąca czytać kobieta znajdzie coś szczególnego dla siebie.
Polecamy literaturę Sergiusza Piaseckiego, Stanisława Srokowskiego, Diany Palmer czy w końcu Blanki Lipińskiej.
Porywający dark romance pełen zwrotów akcji i skrajnych emocjiDalsze losy bohaterów Korony kłamstwElle jest w niebezpieczeństwie. Porwana przez Grega nie wie, co ją czeka. W jego oczach widzi tylko opętanie i szaleństwo, które zaczynają ją coraz bardziej przerażać. Musi pogodzić się z myślą, że nikt jej już nie odnajdzie. Ani David, ani ojciec. Ani nawet Penn.Penn nie może znieść myśli, że Elle nie chce go znać. Zapętlił się w sieci kłamstw i oddałby teraz wszystko, żeby tylko móc powiedzieć jej prawdę. Musi odnaleźć dziewczynę za wszelką cenę. Tylko czy prawda wystarczy, aby móc odbudować jej zaufanie? I czy w ogóle jest szansa, że jeszcze ją zobaczy?""
It’s the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, each flight mission introduces him to thousands of people determined to kill him.
But the enemy above is not Yossarian’s problem – it is his own army intent on keeping him airborne, and the maddening ‘Catch-22’ that allows for no possibility of escape.
The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Regarded by many as her greatest work, The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf's response to the loss of her brother Thoby, who died when he was twenty-six.
The Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf series has been curated by Jeanette Winterson, and the texts used are based on the original Hogarth Press editions published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the world afresh.
The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendrix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.
Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski inhabited.
From prostitutes to classical music, Bukowski ingeniously mixes high and low culture in his 'tales of ordinary madness'. These are angry yet tender, humorous and haunting portrayals of life in the underbelly of Los Angeles.
As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.
The Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf series has been curated by Jeanette Winterson and Margaret Reynolds, and the texts used are based on the original Hogarth Press editions published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column "Notes of A Dirty Old Man" for the underground newspaper Open City. Perennially drunk, broke and in search of a woman, Bukowski takes on the guise of a wise fool as he ventures through America's seedy lowlife. Peopled by Kerouac, Burroughs and other much less salubrious characters, his exploits provoke humour and despair, whilst highlighting the inherent beauty and futility of life.
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. But as time passes, bringing with it war and death, the summer home stands empty until one day, many years later, the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse.
Discover the dark and decadent novella that inspired Cabaret.
Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of the Nazis: a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer, a gay couple, Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely self-indulgent Sally Bowles.
'Brilliant sketches of a society in decay' George Orwell
'Isherwood is a master of the emotionally cathartic moment, funny and perspicacious' Evening Standard
On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century.
In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience.
With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a dramatic deterioration in his genital health, a string of increasingly demanding extra-marital affairs. The last thing he needs is a messy murder to solve. Still it will mean plenty of overtime, a chance to stitch up some colleagues and finally clinch the promotion he craves. But as Bruce spirals through the lower reaches of degradation and evil, he encounters opposition - in the form of truth and ethical conscience - from the most unexpected quarter of all: his anus. In Bruce Robertson, Welsh has created one of the most corrupt, misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction , and has written a dark, disturbing and very funny novel about sleaze, power, and the abuse of everything. At last, a novel that lives up to its name.
Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.'
From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife, these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism of existence in Joyce's native Dublin to life.
Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in London. She is wearing silk stockings, has money in her pocket and cannot remember her name. Orwell leads us through a landscape of unemployment, poverty and hunger, where Dorothy's faith is challenged by a social reality that changes her life.
Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition.
'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .'
Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the crème de la crème, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games and extracurricular activities they will never forget. But the price they pay is their undivided loyalty . . .
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a brilliantly comic novel featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in all literature.
'Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards' John Updike
A poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.
'Luck is a feast which doesn't stay in one place'
Richard Cantrell is an American colonel living in Venice just after the Second World War. The fighting has left him scarred and embittered, a middle-aged man with a heart condition. It seems that only the love of Renata, a nineteen-year-old countess can save him. But Cantrell is living in the shadow of war, every move he makes dictated by old battle instincts, and it is possible that for him the longed-for peace may have come too late.
'The most important author since Shakespeare' New York Times
Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they've made, the people they once were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. Funny, poignant and vividly contemporary, NW is as brimming with vitality as the city itself.
Stanowię kryjówkę dla słów. Panoszą się we mnie od zawsze. Są nieposłuszne i krnąbrne. Przeganiają się nawzajem i kłócą między sobą o to, które z nich jest ważniejsze. Rządzi nimi chaos, nie ja… Zdarza się jednak, że zanęcą mnie swoimi barwami i dają się ujarzmić. Na moment. I wtedy, układają się w zdania, których jestem pewna tak samo jak tego, że dreptanie bosymi stopami po trawie nie należy do przyjemności.
Dzięki zaufaniu Redaktor Naczelnej, nieporadnie zaczynałam na BuwLOG, czyli blogu Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Warszawie. A potem Ania BB wyczarowała dla mnie osobistego bloga Heart and Feathers, który pomógł mi dostrzec cud rozłożonych skrzydeł… Za tym wszystkim stanęły osoby, które nie zamykały oczu na widok wymyślonych historyjek...
Zapraszam do lektury moich opowiadań, bo ufam, że niepokorna cząstka mnie, którą do nich wkładam spodoba się Wam choć odrobinkę.
W Marine Harvest na małej, odosobnionej wyspie Varaldsoy, zagubionej gdzieś pośród fiordu Hardanger, miało swój początek pewne przedsięwzięcie. To właśnie tam wuj wraz ze swoim bratankiem postanowili wypróbować nowy sposób hodowli ryb morskich - hodowlę zbiornikową. Kiedy w 1962 r. rozpoczynali swój biznes, nie mieli więcej niż kilka domowej roboty drewnianych pojemników z aluminiowym dnem i głębokiej wiary w powodzenie.
Historia mężczyzn nie jest typowa dla raportów finansowych, jej rozwój nie opiera się na analizach i inwestycjach korporacyjnych. To opowieść o odwadze i zdeterminowaniu w drodze do sukcesu pomimo przeciwności losu.
Mnich z mokki to prawdziwa historia Amerykanina jemeńskiego pochodzenia, wychowanego w San Francisco, który marzy o wskrzeszeniu pradawnej sztuki uprawy jemeńskiej kawy, lecz wojna domowa powoduje, że zostaje uwięziony w Sanie. Mokhtar Alkhanshali ma dwadzieścia cztery lata i pracuje jako portier, gdy przedmiotem jego fascynacji staje się historia kawy i fakt, że centralne miejsce zajmuje w niej Jemen. Wyjeżdża z San Francisco i wyrusza w podróż do ojczyzny przodków, żeby odwiedzić plantacje na urwistych zboczach wysoko w górach Jemenu. Zbiera próbki kawy, organizuje plantatorów i jest bliski odniesienia sukcesu, gdy kraj ogarnia wojna domowa. Na ziemię spadają saudyjskie bomby, amerykańska ambasada zostaje zamknięta, a Mokhtar musi znaleźć sposób na wydostanie się z Jemenu, nie dysponując niczym poza nadzieją. Mnich z Mokki opowiada o odważnym młodym wizjonerze, który podąża za prawdziwie amerykańskim marzeniem. „Emocjonująca opowieść o życiu pełnym odwagi i pasji”. Enterteinment Weekly „Zapierająca dech”. The Guardian „Nieskończenie interesująca”. San Francisco Chronicle „Wciągająca”. Los Angeles Times
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