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Salman Rushdie Joseph Anton ENOn 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being 'against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran'. So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving…
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Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews ENKissing, Joseph, is but a prologue to a Play. Can I believe a young fellow of your Age and Complexion will be content with Kissing? Henry Fielding's first full-length novel, Joseph Andrews depicts the many colourful and often hilarious adventures of a comically chaste servant. After being sacked for spurning the lascivious Lady Booby, Joseph takes to the road, accompanied by his beloved Fanny Goodwill, a much-put…
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Anna Vovsová Josef und LiFreundschaft, Fremdsein und ein großes Abenteuer in Prag§§Aus dem Land der Geschichtenerzähler kommt ein Sommerroman über das Anderssein und den Zauber wahrer Freundschaft. Für Li ist es nicht leicht, in Prag Fuß zu fassen...
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Maia-Mari Sutnik, Josef Sudek Josef Sudek: The Legacy of a Deeper Vision ENDuring a legendary career that spanned almost six decades, Czech photographer Josef Sudek, the “poet of Prague,” developed a craftsmanship and technical virtuosity that was unparalleled among his contemporaries. Early in his career, though the prevailing art movements of the 1920s and ’30s included cubism, surrealism, and the Czech avant-garde, Sudek sought his own approach characterized by a striking mastery of…
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Timm Rautert Josef Sudek, Prague 1967 ENTimm Rautert met Josef Sudek for the first time on a study trip to Prague in the spring of 1967. The photography student and the seventy-one-year-old Sudek ― arguably the most important Czech landscape and still-life photographer of the twentieth century and a cult figure in his native country ― instantly took to each other, and Rautert began photographing the artist at his studio and home. He accompanied him on his…
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Robert Delpire, Josef Koudelka, Czeslaw Milosz Josef Koudelka: Exiles ENThis powerful document of the spiritual and physical state of exile now contains 10 new images by master of photography Josef Koudelka. The sense of mystery that fills these photographs mostly taken during Koudelka's years of wandering through Europe and the United States since leaving his native Czechoslovakia speaks of passion and reserve, of his rage to see. The brilliant accompanying essay by Robert Delpire…
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Charles Darwent Josef AlbersWhile Josef Albers’ Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages to the Square, a series of over 2,000 seemingly tightly controlled experiments ...
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Robert Beasley José MourinhoThe gripping biography of one of the most successful managers in the game, José Mourinho, giving a rare insight into Mourinho the man as well as Mourinho the manager, up through the full 2016-2017 season. The author has followed Mourinho’s career closely since his arrival on the English soccer scene in 2004. He has been the one person granted privileged access to the Special One’s inner sanctum, and found a man few…
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Robert Beasley José Mourinho ENThe gripping biography of one of the most successful managers in the game, José Mourinho, giving a rare insight into Mourinho the man as well as Mourinho the manager. This unique insider account of the private man and public manager begins at Old Trafford in 2004, when Mourinho put himself on the football map as his Porto team knocked Manchester United out of the Champions League. Since then, author Robert Beasley…
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Leander Kahney Jony Ive ENWith the death of Steve Jobs in 2011, Jony Ive has become the most important person at Apple. Some would argue he always was. Steve Jobs discovered Ive in 1997, when he found the scruffy British designer toiling away in a studio surrounded by hundreds of sketches and prototypes. Jobs instantly realised he had found a talent who could reverse Apple's decline, and become his 'spiritual partner'. Their collaboration…
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Leander Kahney Jony Ive ENIn 1997, Steve Jobs returned to Apple with the unenviable task of turning around the company he had founded. One night Jobs discovered a scruffy British designer toiling away in a studio at Apple and instantly realized he had found a talent who could reverse the company's long decline. That young designer was Jony Ive. Ive's collaboration with Jobs would produce some of the world's most iconic products, including…
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Alison Jones, Brenda Sufrin, Niamh Dunne Jones & Sufrin's EU Competition LawThe essential guide to EU competition law for students in one volume; extracts from key cases, academic works, and legislation are paired with incisive critique and commentary from an expert author team. In this fast-paced subject area, the authors...
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Meg Rosoff Jonathan Unleashed ENJonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him - only richer and more organised with a different sense of humour. On the plus side, his two flatmates are determined to fix his life - or possibly to destroy it altogether. It's difficult to be certain as they only speak dog. Poor Jonathan. He doesn't…
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Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange and Mr NorrellA beautiful new limited edition paperback of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list. The woman within the mirror drew nearer. For a moment she appeared directly behind it and they could see the elaborate embroidery and beading of her gown; then she mounted up upon the frame as a step. The surface of the mirror became softer, like a dense cloud or mist. Centuries…
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Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell ENAny book touted as the ‘adult Harry Potter’ runs the risk of attracting critical parries from swords of the double-edged variety. If this wasn’t enough, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell—the debut novel from Susanna Clarke—also invites comparisons with Jane Austen. Set in the early nineteenth-century, the action moves from genteel drawing rooms—albeit where a mischievous Faerie king sips tea with the wife of a very…
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Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell ENTwo magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me... The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. Proceeding to…
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Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull / Jonathan Livingston Racek ENDvojjazyčné vydání novely současného amerického spisovatele o racku Jonathanovi je podobenstvím o lidech-ptácích toužících po poznání a naplnění života, po lásce, svobodě a volnosti. Ani po téměř čtyřiceti letech od svého vzniku neztratila nic na síle a kráse. Tento příběh je napsán pro ty, kdo jdou za hlasem svého srdce a vytvářejí si svá vlastní pravidla... pro ty, které pokaždé potěší, když můžou udělat něco…
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Jon Burgerman Jon Burgerman's Burgerworld ENAn exciting new colouring book from Jon Burgerman taking you on a journey through a land of his doodle creations. Colour and scribble and have fun as you and your pens make friends with strange monsters and doodles on your journey to Burgerworld! Contains a list of mind-boggling creatures and objects to tick off as you find them on your travels, and a page of crazy stickers.
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Mazen Maarouf Jokes for the GunmenA brilliant collection of fictions in the vein of Roald Dahl, Etgar Keret and Amy Hempel. These are stories of what the world looks like from a child's pure but sometimes vengeful or muddled perspective. These are stories of life in a war zone, ...
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George R.R Martin Jokers Wild ENThe streets of New York have erupted in celebration of Wild Card Day - the annual event held every September 15th to remember the dead and cherish the living. It is a day for fireworks, street fairs and parades, for political rallies and memorial banquets, for drinking and fighting in the alleys. With each passing year, the festivities become larger and more fevered. And this year - 1986, the 40th anniversary -…
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Greg Capullo, Scott Snyder Joker Endgame ENThe tie-in to the best-selling Batman Vol. 7: Endgame is here with The Joker: Endgame! Gotham City has been overrun by craziness, and the power is out at Gotham Academy! There's a mob of Jokerized madmen in Gotham City, and they're determined to spread the virus into the world beyond... but they're gonna have to get past Batgirl first! What do Batman's villains do on the craziest night in Gotham City? The city is…
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Joker Death of the FamilyAfter having his face sliced off one year ago, The Joker makes hishorrifying return in this new epic that features Batman's entire network ofpartners in crimefighting, including Batgirl, Catwoman, Nightwing, Robin, theTeen Titans and more....
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