Książka w języku angielskim. Dziesięcioletni Abdullah zrobi wszystko dla swojej młodszej siostry. W życiu pośród biedy i problemów, bez matki która mogłaby się nimi zająć, Pari jest jedyną osobą która przynosi szczęscie Abdullahowi. Dla niej, wymieni on jedyną parę swoich butów, aby dać jej pióro do jej kolekcji skarbów. Kiedy ich ojciec wyrusza z Pari przez pustynię do Kabulu w poszukiwaniu pracy, Abdullah jest zdeterminowany aby nie zostać od niej oddzielonym. Ani brat, ani siostra, nie wiedzą co ta podróż im przyniesie.

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik, a Czech always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and Sam are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment. It's a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you have less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends' losses. And it's that very evening, at exactly 11:30, as Treslove, walking home, hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country, that he is attacked. And after this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. The Finkler Question is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.

Książka w jęz. angielskim. Oparta na faktach, powieść o losach jednej z siedmiu oficjalnych żon cesarza Chin Xianfenga. Choć współcześni uważają ją za despotkę, autorka przedstawiała ją jako pełną wdzięku i uczuć kobietę, głęboko kochającą kraj i męża, ale nie umiejącą odnaleźć się w świecie coraz bardziej ulegającym wpływom obcych kultur. Powieść czyta się bardzo dobrze.

Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter magic! When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he's the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord's curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Leaving his unsympathetic aunt and uncle for Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, Harry stumbles upon a sinister adventure when he finds a three-headed dog guarding a room on the third floor. Then he hears of a missing stone with astonishing powers which could be valuable, dangerous, or both.

Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.