Viktor Janiš Books

The Sandman is a series of award-winning graphic novels. It blends modern myth and dark fantasy, in which historical drama, contemporary fiction and legend are interwoven.

'This collection is [like] the Beatles' "White Album": massive in size and scope, with individually brilliant pieces presented together because the only context they need is how good they are' MARLON JAMES A captivating collection of fiction from one of the world's most beloved writers, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author, Marlon James. With a writer as prolific as Neil Gaiman, where do you begin? Or how do you know what to try next? Spanning his career to date, this collection of ambitious, groundbreaking and endlessly imaginative fiction will be your guide. Curated within this book are nearly fifty of Gaiman's short stories and novellas, interposed with excerpts from his five novels for adults - Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. It is both an entryway to his oeuvre and a literary trove Gaiman fans old and new will return to time and again. Start where it suits you. There aren't any rules. NEIL GAIMAN. WITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.

The first volume of Asimov's saga, which won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series. The ostensible task of Foundation, a group of savants established by Seldon on the remote planet Terminus, is to compile the "Encyclopedia Galactica", a complete account of human knowledge.

This stunning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all too human failings. The concept of the super hero is dissected and inverted as strangely realistic characters are stalked by an unknown assassin.

Michel Faber je bytostný prozaik, básním se věnoval jen okrajově a sám vtipkoval, že tímhle tempem bude mít dost materiálu na první sbírku někdy ve svých devadesáti letech. Pak ale po dvaceti letech manželství Faberova žena Eva onemocněla nevyléčitelnou rakovinou kostní dřeně (mnohočetným myelomem, abychom byli přesní) a Faber se vrátil ke své původní profesi, totiž ošetřovatelství. A právě v pokoji londýnské nemocnice, kde Eva strávila poslední měsíce svého života, vznikly první básně z předkládaného cyklu (je jich nakonec něco přes 70, na cca 140 tiskových stranách.) Tematicky se básně omezují na průběh nemoci, Evinu smrt a Faberův žal. Je to poezie nekompromisně upřímná, emocionálně intenzivní, místy protkaná šibeničním humorem. Drtivá většina básní je psaná volným veršem a rýmovaná sporadicky, což je paradoxně její výhoda: je mnohem přístupnější, než poezie obvykle bývá, a účinek je bezprostřednější. V těchto básních, jež ocenily i takové těžké literární váhy jako Ian McEwan, přišel Michel Faber na něco obecně sdělného: co to znamená najít životní lásku a pak ji takhle krutým způsobem ztratit. Dal hlas lidem, kteří o rakovině kvůli přetrvávajícímu tabu neumí mluvit, nemocným, kteří si své pocity nechávají pro sebe.

Continuing the hardcover collection of master comics writer Alan Moore’s award-winning run on The Saga of The Swamp Thing, this fourth volume brings Swamp Thing’s quest for self-discovery with the mystic John Constantine to its shattering conclusion. A harbinger of doom has been released with the sole charge of waking an evil beyond comprehension, and Swamp Thing, John Constantine, Deadman, The Phantom Stranger, Etrigan the Demon, The Spectre and other masters of the occult must unite against the dark forces that threaten to eradicate Heaven’s light.

Mýty všech zemí, spojte se! Od té doby, co Nepřítel vyhnal Mýty z jejich původní vlasti, žijí ty nehumanoidní z nich na Farmě na severu státu New York, skrytí před všetečnými zraky lidí. Nyní ovšem po mnoha stech letech izolace doutná na Farmě revoluce. Rozdmýchává ji štvavá rétorika Zlatovlásky a třech malých prasátek. A když Sněhurka a její sestra Růženka náhodou odhalí jejich plán osvobodit původní vlast, jsou komisaři na Farmě připraveni umlčet je... a to jakýmikoli prostředky! V této knize najdete další pět sešitů jedné z nejúspěšnějších a nejoriginálnějších komiksových řad současnosti a zjistíte, že i pohádkové bytosti jsou postavy z masa a krve... případně dřeva a barvy.

The Doll's House is the second trade paperback collection of the comic book series The Sandman, published by DC Comics. It collects issues #9-16. It is written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Chris Bachalo, Michael Zulli and Steve Parkhouse, coloured by Robbie Busch and lettered by Todd Klein. Dream picks up the pieces of his kingdom and existence in the wake of his imprisonment for most of the 20th century, and attempts to track down several nightmares who fled his realm during his imprisonment.

The conclusion to a masterful graphic novel trilogy that follows Berlin's citizens as Nazism rises The third and final act of Jason Lutes’s historical fiction about the Weimar Republic begins with Hitler arriving in Berlin. With the National Socialist party now controlling Parliament, the citizenry becomes even more divided. Lutes steps back from the larger political upheaval, using the intertwining lives of a small group of Germans to zero in on the rise of fascism and how swiftly it can replace democracy. The idle rich, the naïve bourgeoisie, and the struggling lower classes: all seek meaning in the warring political factions dividing their nation. He especially focuses on the Brauns—a working-class family torn apart by a political system that doesn’t care about them. Lovers couple and uncouple; families and friends share rituals and laughter; most of Berlin’s citizens go about their day with little sense of the larger threat to their existence. Meanwhile, the journalist Kurt Severing and the artist Marthe Muller watch in horror as their society begins a dizzying descent into extremism. Lutes’ Berlin Book Three: City of Light is one of the most anticipated graphic novels of 2018, and the long-awaited conclusion to his beloved trilogy.

Kouzelný příběh o jednom (obyčejném) dni dvou lidí v Turecku - zahraničního botanika, studujícího tamní floru a místního učitele, který si přivydělává sběrem kovových plechovek od nápojů.

A tour de force of powerful storytelling and intense characterization, "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" is the tale of a tortured man's effort to save a city spiraling into chaos. An aging, time-worn Batman struggles with the acceptance of a new Robin while facing the latest generation of vicious, hyper-violent criminals. Old foes like the Joker and Two-Face add to the maddening mayhem which Batman must face and somehow conquer. Even Batman's relationship with his friend and ally Superman takes a fresh and inventive turn that would have been unthinkable outside of Frank Miller's richly imagined vision of the Dark Knight's future. This tenth anniversary edition features 28 pages of sketches, art, text material and an introduction by the author.

Království tvé, kniha první (Původně vyšlo v květnu a červnu 1996) V blízké budoucnosti jsou superhrdinové všudypřítomní, jen hrdinství je vzácné. Liga spravedlnosti, která po desítky let bránila Zemi, se stáhla a nahradila ji nová generace bojovníků se zločinem, jejichž krutá spravedlnost lidstvo děsí. Osud planety visí na vlásku, a tak musí Superman, Batman a Wonder Woman vyjít z ústraní a naposledy se postavit za pravdu a spravedlnost. More Fun Comics #52 (Původně vyšlo v únoru 1940) Když detektiva Jima Corrigana zavraždí gangsteři, je mu odepřen vstup do království nebeského a vrátí se pomstít zločincům jako Spectre, bytost nadaná mnoha schopnostmi.

Death incarnate, as defined by master storyteller Neil Gaiman (THE SANDMAN), is a genuinely likeable young girl with a fondness for ankhs who truly cares about people. It's small wonder then that when a rising star of the music world wrestles with revealing her true sexual orientation just as her lover is lured into the realm of Death that Death herself should make an appearance. A practical, honest, and intelligent story that illuminates "the miracle of death."

'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which...' Halas & Bachelor studio's classic and controversial 1954 animation of Animal Farm, George Orwell's chilling fable of idealism betrayed, was the first ever British animated feature film. This landmark illustrated edition of Orwell's novel was first published alongside it, and features the original line drawings by the film's animators, Joy Batchelor and John Halas.

New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist The instant New York Times bestselling novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known. For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.

Following the huge success of From Hell, Knockabout presents a stunning volume comprising a new story by Alan Moore, Snakes and Ladders, based on a performance given on Red Lion Square in Holborn. The other story, originally a performance piece by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins, was adapted as a comic by Eddie Campbell. It is a shamanism of childhood, a journey from the present to the past, back into the womb and beyond. The last part of this volume is an extensive interview of Alan Moore he gave Eddie Campbell for his self-published magazine, Egomania.

„My všichni máme svoje malé spouště… věci, které na nás čekají v temných chodbách našich životů,“ píše Neil Gaiman v úvodu Předběžného varování, pozoruhodného kompendia pětadvaceti povídek a básní, ve kterých zkoumá transformativní moc imaginace. V povídce "Dobrodružný příběh" – jistým způsobem spřízněné s knihou Oceán na konci uličky – se Gaiman zamýšlí nad smrtí a jak si lidé berou svoje příběhy s sebou, když umírají. „Kalendář příběhů“ je sestaven z minipovídek o měsících v roce – příběh pirátky a březnových větrů, iglú postaveného z knih a pohlednice ke Dni matek, která způsobí poruchu ve vesmíru. V povídce „Případ smrti a medu“ nabízí Gaiman možnost podívat se na legendárního detektiva Sherlocka Holmese trochu jinak. Ve sbírce najdete také „Bezčasí“, velice zvláštní příběh napsáný v roce 2013 pro oblíbený seriál Pán času, stejně jako dosud nepublikovaný příběh ze světa Amerických bohů „Černý pes“ o tom, co se stalo, když se Stín cestou zpátky do Ameriky zastavil v jedné vesnické hospodě. Gaiman, kreativní spisovatel s nenapodobitelným tvůrčím géniem, nás pomocí své literární alchymie přenáší hluboko do neprobádané země, kde se fantastické stává skutečným a každodenní jasně žhne. Předběžné varování, plné divů a hrůz, překvapení a pobavení, je pokladnice literárních požitků, které zaměstnají mysl, sevřou u srdce a zatřesou s duší.

For a decade Alice Sheldon produced an extraordinary body of work under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr, until her identity was exposed in 1977. HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER presents the finest of these stories and contains the NEBULA AWARD-winning LOVE IS THE PLAN THE PLAN IS DEATH; HUGO AWARD-winning novella THE GIRL WHO WAS PLUGGED IN; HOUSTON, HOUSTON, DO YOU READ? - winner of both the HUGO and NEBULA - and of course the story for which she is best known: THE WOMEN MEN DON'T SEE. This is a true masterwork - an overview of one of SF's true greats at the very height of her powers.

Winner of the 2013 Hugo award for Best Graphic Story! When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From New York Times bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina) and critically acclaimed artist Fiona Staples (Mystery Society, North 40), Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. Fantasy and science fiction are wed like never before in this sexy, subversive drama for adults. This specially priced volume collects the first six issues of the smash-hit series The Onion A.V. Club calls "the emotional epic Hollywood wishes it could make." Voted one of the top graphic novels of the year by the NYT, IGN, the Examiner, and SF Weekly. Voted Best Comic of the year by MTV Geek and Best New Series by Paradox Comics. Voted a finalist in the GoodReads Best GN of 2012 contest. Named one of Time Magazine's top 10 graphic novels for 2013

A collection of eight comics that introduce the series' lead character, the Sandman, Lord of Dreams.

In November of 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: to abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. The mission, ordered by Hitler himself and planned by Heinrich Himmler, is led by ace agent Kurt Steiner and aided on the ground by IRA gunman Liam Devlin. As the deadly duo executes Hitler’s harrowing plot, only the quiet town of Studley Constable stands in their way. Its residents are the lone souls aware of the impending Nazi plan, and they must become the most unlikely of heroes as the fate of the war hangs in the balance.

Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for centuries. When war is declared and the outside world intrudes, the twin scourges of religion and nationalism lead to forced marches and massacres, and the peaceful fabric of life is destroyed. Birds Without Wings is a novel about the personal and political costs of war, and about love- between men and women; between friends; between those who are driven to be enemies; and between Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim the Goatherd, who has courted her since infancy. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, it is an enchanting masterpiece. 'A mesmerising patchwork of horror, humour and humanity' Independent

So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she...?

Jimmy Corrigan - the creation of artist Chris Ware - is a boy with the face of a disappointed old man. This graphic novel tells the poignant story of a shy character and his relationship with his absent father. The book collects Ware's comic strips in hardback format, with a fold-out jacket.

How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time? Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, is redefining the way we think about news, politics and the digital future. Here, their founder - a high-school dropout on a kitchen laptop - tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering, galvanising citizen journalists across the globe to expose war crimes and pick apart disinformation, using just their computers. From the downing of Malaysia Flight 17 over the Ukraine to the sourcing of weapons in the Syrian Civil War and the identification of the Salisbury poisoners, We Are Bellingcat digs deep into some of Bellingcat's most successful investigations. It explores the most cutting-edge tools for analysing data, from virtual-reality software that can build photorealistic 3D models of a crime scene, to apps that can identify exactly what time of day a photograph was taken. In our age of uncertain truths, Bellingcat is what the world needs right now - an intelligence agency by the people, for the people

Tato Saroyanova kniha vychází z deníků Henri-Fredericka Amiela, který si v 19. století více než padesát let vedl jeden z nejdéle psaných deníků vůbec. A Saroyanova kniha není tudíž ničím jiným, než jeho osobními deníkovými zápisky ze srpna 1967, kdy pobýval v Paříži, a prosince a listopadu 1968. V době, kdy toto dílo psal, mu bylo devětapadesát (respektive šedesát) let, a jeho věk ho nutí k melancholickým zamyšlením, kdy přemítá o svém dosavadním a nad budoucím životem. Navíc se v jeho zápiscích často objevují poznámky, kdo zrovna zemřel, a smrt druhých lidí ho inspiruje k napsání různých úvah, odboček, parabol a fejetonů, které se týkají naprosto všeho - pojednávají o tématech počínajíc zbytečností Vánoc a končíc zoufalými pokusy dobýt Měsíc. Jazyk knihy je moderní, moc se mi líbí Saroyanův osobitý styl využívající neobvyklých obratů a zvláštních přirovnání. Celkový koncept a ráz knížky vyznívá pesimisticky, autor si uvědomuje, že stejně jako všichni ostatní lidé i on musí zemřít. Nicméně posledního etapu svého života, stáří, bere s nadhledem.

Charles Darwin was an independent thinker who continues even now to influence the way we look at the natural world. His endless curiosity and passion for detail resulted in a wealth of notebooks, diaries, correspondence, and published writings that Peter Sis transforms into a visual treasure trove.

Zdraví začíná zevnitř – přispěje k tomu i to, když jíte skutečné, průmyslově nezpracované a výživné jídlo, které vám umožní vést zdravější a aktivnější život. Z knihy sester Hemsleyových pochopíte, co je pro vaše tělo dobré. A můžete pak jednoduše změnit své návyky a vybrat si jídlo, které je lahodné a zároveň vám svědčí. Autorky na základě vlastních zkušeností a deseti let studia sepsaly základní pravidla, v nichž kombinují odvěké principy stravování s moderním dietetickým výzkumem. Ze svého bohatého repertoáru vyzkoušených receptů pak vybraly jednoduché předpisy pro domácí vaření od snídaní, polévek přes maso a ryby, přílohy, zeleninová jídla, saláty, dipy a zálivky až po pečené či nepečené dezerty a nápoje. Výhodou těchto zdravých a chutných receptů je také to, že se dají zvládnout i při hektickém životním stylu. To je umění dobrého jídla.

An acclaimed collection of stories from the internationally bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White

A quartet of fallen mystics dubbed the "TrenchCoat Brigade" is introduced in this first collection of the adventures of Timothy Hunter. John Constantine, the Phantom Stranger, Dr. Occult, and Mister E take Hunter on a tour of the magical realms. Along the way he's introduced to Vertigo's greatest practitioners of magic and must choose whether or not to join their ranks.

The second novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the mightiest force in the Galaxy—is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who—or what—is the Mule? And how is humanity to defend itself against this invulnerable avatar of annihilation? Filled with nail-biting suspense, nonstop action, and cutting-edge speculation, Foundation and Empire is the story of humanity’s perpetual struggle against the darkness that forever threatens to overwhelm the light—and of how the courage of even a determined few can make all the difference in the universe.

When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them. Despite visiting plagues of laughing fits and giant cats upon the troops, the villagers know that to escape the cruel and unusual tortures planned for them, they must run. Thus they plan to head for the mountains and start a new and convivial civilization. "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts is the first novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1991.

Svazek obsahuje čtyři vybrané romány od současných úspěšných angloamerických autorů ve zkrácené verzi. Tento svazek obsahuje tyto tituly: Baldacci, David: Výhra Higgins, Jack: Černý baron Delinsky, Barbara: Místo ženy Edison, Tom: Pistolník a řeholnice

Follows the adventures of storybook and nursery rhyme characters who live side-by-side with humans.

While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfillment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private demons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicenter of all heresies. Heresies that must be challenged with a horrifying new inquisition destined to climax in a spectacular confrontation... The second part of a trilogy, following "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Fiction.

Find out what became of Sophie.Michel Faber revisits the world of his bestselling novel The Crimson Petal and the White, conjuring tantalising glimpses of its characters, their lives before we first met them and their intriguing futures. You'll be desperate for more by the time you reluctantly re-emerge into the twenty-first century.

The phenomenal bestselling novel, in a new tie-in edition to the major seven-part BBC TV series costarring Bertie Carvel (Les Miserables) and Eddie Marsan (War Horse). At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England--until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician, the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome, and daring, Strange is the very opposite of Norrell. He becomes Norrell's student, and they join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic, straining his partnership with Norrell, and putting at risk everything else he holds dear.

Richard Dawkins has created a dazzling celebration of our planet with explanations of space, time, evolution and more, taking us on a journey through scientific reality.

As an increasingly isolated and insane Hitler pursues his hopeless war, betrayal and treachery reach the highest levels of the Third Reich.German intelligence knows that paratroop officer Steiner survived "Operation Eagle," the bungled assassination attempt on Winston Churchill, and is now a POW somewhere in London. Reichsfuhrer Himmler wants him back -- at any cost -- and puts his top espionage agents in charge of the perilous rescue mission.Racing from the nightclubs of Lisbon to Hitler's opulent country retreat to the damp streets of London, Himmler's men get closer to their target -- and to the shattering true objective of their mission....

A whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story, and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they unfold from and into one another.

Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realizes that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge. "Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord is the second novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1992.

Co si Češi nalhávají o Češích? Proč nedůvěřují policii a soudům? Co si dnes myslíme o sametové revoluci nebo o rozdělení Československa? Může mít jméno vliv na naši kariéru? Proč nám nevadí bezpečnostní kamery? Je u nás náboženství mrtvé? Jsou české hodnoty něčím výjimečné? Je česká společnost skutečně tak tolerantní, jak se traduje? Jaké je vůbec v České republice „Názorové klima“? Tato populárně-vědná kniha nastiňuje témata spojená s výzkumem společnosti. Pokouší se přístupnou formou seznámit čtenáře-neodborníka s prací sociologů. Vždyť mnohé otázky, které sociologie zkoumá, jsou přímo spojené s rozhodováním a opatřeními, jež mají dopad na nás všechny.

It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, humorous - and a consummate musician. When the local doctor's daughter's letters to her fiancé - a member of the underground - go unanswered, the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender?

Global phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things, which includes a never-before published American Gods story, BLACK DOG. 'We are all wearing masks. THat is what makes us interesting. These are stories about those masks, and the people we are underneath them.' Neil Gaiman, writing from a cabin in the dark woods. MAke sure you secure your own mask before reading. BEfore being transported to worlds filled with witches, watchers and big black bees, with deathless Kin and pirate girls, with things that prowl in the darkness beyond the circle fire, to find the Shadder lurking at your journey's end. But then what happens? There's always something waiting for you. THere's always more. JUst keep turning the pages. 'We each have our little triggers.' Literary alchemy from 'a writer of rare perception and endless imagination' (William Gibson), TRIGGER WARNING is a cornucopia of storytelling: horror and ghost stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry. IT will open your eyes to the inexhaustible supply of darkness around you, the magic and the monsters, the myths and the miracles, and to finding truths in the most extraordinary of places.

The bestselling, award-bedecked Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell are reunited in this irresistible fairytale reboot, with vibrant red ink adding lustre to an amazingly beautiful book. 'Suffused with joy and melancholy ... It is absolutely a retelling for our age, but also for ages still to come' Guardian Weaving together hints of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty with a shimmering thread of dark magic, this twist on classic fairytales will hold readers spellbound from start to finish. On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and ventures into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future - and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. Twisting together the familiar and the new, this delicious, captivating and darkly funny tale shows its creators at the peak of their talents and was the winner of the 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. Lavishly produced and packed with glorious Chris Riddell illustrations, this amazingly beautiful book makes a spectacular and magical gift.

Bisson ist bekannt durch seinen Roman Mars Live und die Novellisierung von Bessons SF-Thriller Das fünfte Element. Mars Live fiel durch seinen subtilen, ironischen Humor auf. In der Erzählung einer Mars-Expedition, die Alien-Artefakte geheim hält, zeigt sich dieser Humor auch in Bissons Kurzgeschichten, die oft in der ländlichen Gegend von Tennessee/Kentucky/Ohio spielen. Hier geht es gemütlich zu, die Dorfgemeinschaft ist eng verbunden, und der Pfarrer hat noch Einfluss. In der Titelgeschichte leben Bären auf Mittelstreifen von Highways und versammeln sich am Lagerfeuer. Die verwirrte Mutter des Erzählers flieht aus dem Altersheim und gesellt sich zu den Bären, was den Erzähler dazu bringt, sich ihr anzuschließen. In „Drück auf Ann“ erlebt ein verliebtes Paar Abenteuer mit einem intelligenten Bankautomaten. „George“ handelt von einer besonderen Vogelseele in einem Baby, die eines Tages davonfliegt. Die bedeutendsten Erzählungen sind „Über den Tafelberg“ und „Der Schatten weiß es“. Letztere schildert die Rückkehr eines alten Mannes zur Mondkolonie, wo ein Experiment mit einem Alien stattfindet. Der Alien, nur als Schatten wahrnehmbar, bringt bald erste Opfer mit sich. Bisson fügt seiner Sammlung ein Nachwort hinzu, in dem er seine Inspirationen teilt. Die Sammlung ist eine der wichtigsten des Jahres und spiegelt die Vielfalt und Kreativität des Genres wider.

Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person. "Read it if you dare!"--"The Daily Express".

Máte rádi viktoriánskou žánrovou literaturu? Máte rádi komiks? Pokud jste si na obě otázky odpověděli ANO, pak vám nesmí uniknout poslední dílko Alana Moora a jeho dvorního malíře Kevina O’Neilla, pokračování Ligy výjimečných, trilogie NEMO. Píše se rok 1925 a patnáct let po smrti kapitána Nema plánuje jeho dcera Janni Dakkarová v Ledovém srdci nebezpečnou expedici do Antarktidy, která končí konfrontací pod Horami šílenství, v neprobádané mezeře v mapě, kde se realita naší hrdinky zbortí. V Berlínských růžích se zase utká s mechanickými metropolitními monstrozitami a v Řece duchů bojuje se zvrhlými tropickými tyrany. České vydání jako první na světě vychází v jednom svazku.

In Good Bones, first published in 1992, Margaret Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parable, monologue, mini-romance and mini-biography, speculative fiction, prose lyric, outrageous recipe and reconfigured fairy tale, demonstrating yet again the play of an unerring wit overseen by a panoramic intelligence.  Good Bones is a cornucopia of good things — precise, witty, wise, and sometimes offbeat Atwood writing, with the funny and the sidelong view of the world which her readers recognize at once.

A narrator remembers his childhood encounters with an old osteopath who claims to have treated Al Capone. Gradually, England of the 1960s and Chicago of the 1920s merge into a haunting and beautifully drawn tale....

With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow. A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyrannies which have ruled large parts of the globe in his name. Indeed, he would have been appalled if he had witnessed them. But his analysis of the evils and dangers of raw capitalism is as correct now as when it was written, and some of his suggestions (progressive income tax, abolition of child labour, free education for all children) are now accepted with little question. In a world where capitalism is no longer held in check by fear of a communist alternative, The Communist Manifesto (with Socialism Utopian and Scientific, Engels's brief and clear exposition of Marxist thought) is essential reading. The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 is Engels's first, and probably best-known, book. With Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, it was and is the outstanding study of the working class in Victorian England.

The stories in this book, all written between 1929 and 1954, share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. Comic, sad, shocking and tragic, they recount the tales of Mr. Maling's loud stomach, destructive gangs of children, indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered.

The controversial, long-awaited prequels to the best-selling graphic novel of all-time are finally here: BEFORE WATCHMEN! For over twenty years, the back stories of the now-iconic characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's landmark graphic novel had been the subject of much debate and theorizing. Now, DC Comics has assembled the greatest creators in the industry to further paint the world of WATCHMEN, starting with this first volume starring MINUTEMEN and SILK SPECTREThe critically acclaimed and Eisner Award-winning creator of DC: THE NEW FRONTIER Darwyn Cooke lends his talents MINUTEMEN. As the predecessor to the Watchmen, the Minutemen were assembled to fight against a world that have more and more rapidly begun to spin out of control. Can these heroes from completely different backgrounds and with completely different attitudes on crime come together? Or will they fall apart before they begin? SILK SPECTRE takes an introspective look at the WATCHMEN feature player's struggles with her overbearing superhero mother and her scattered path toward taking the mantle of the Silk Spectre. With gorgeous art by co-writer and illustrator Amanda Conner (POWER GIRL, The Pro), SILK SPECTRE takes a very different perspective at the world of BEFORE WATCHMEN. Collects BEFORE WATCHMEN: MINUTEMEN 1-6 and BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE 1-4.

Collects Before Watchmen: Nite Owl numbered 1-4 and Before Watchmen: Dr Manhattan numbered 1-4.

Casting his mind back to the village in southern Surrey where he grew up in the sixties and seventies, but plagued by a novelist's inability to stick to the truth, Louis de Bernieres brings us in "Notwithstanding" stories of a vanished England which will delight readers of his much-loved novels. The English village was a place where an old lady might dress as a man in plus fours and spend her time shooting squirrels with a twelve bore, or keep a vast menagerie in her house. A retired general might give up wearing clothes, a spiritualist might live in a cottage with her sister and the ghost of her husband, and people might think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. De Bernieres' characters roam through the book, appearing in each others' stories and painting a picture of an entire community.

Michel Faber's first novel in twelve years. Soon to be Amazon original series Oasis in 2017

'It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.'Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection of their time together he analyses the agonies and the joys of trying to make a life with another person.

A return to the epic romance, heroism, history and warm and eccentric cast of characters that made CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN such an extraordinary hit (2.5 million copies sold). In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of the conflict that will engulf them on the cusp of adulthood. When the boys end up scattered along the Western Front, Rosie is left confused by her love for two young men - one an infantry soldier and one a flying ace. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War?

Leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski presents this year's must-have collection of British mystery fiction

Explains the origins of The Comedian and Rorschach from the comics series, "Watchmen."

Equal parts historical thriller, romance and ghost story, this is an ingenious literary page-turner and is completely unforgettable.

"It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from the language. First, it vanishes from her parents' conversation at breakfast, then from the road signs outside. Soon the local dentist and the neighbour's Dalmatian are missing, and even the Donkey Derby has been called off. Though she doesn't know why, Dhikilo is summoned to the home of her old history teacher Professor Dodderfield and his faithful Labrador, Nelly Robinson. And this is where our story begins. Set between England and the wintry land of Liminus, a world enslaved by the monstrous Gamp and populated by fearsome, enchanting creatures, D (Tale of Two Worlds) is a mesmerising tale of friendship and bravery in an uncertain world."--Publisher

Úžasný Spider-Man se vítězně vrátil z Tajných válek - a vypadá teď úplně jinak! Není ale na Spideyho novém černém obleku něco trošku divného? Po návratu do newyorských ulic Spidey zjistí, co přesně jeho nový kostým umí - nemá ale ponětí, že ten zvláštní oblek je ve skutečnosti mnohem nebezpečnější, než by si kdy dokázal představit... Obsahuje komiksy Amazing Spider-Man č. 252-259

Skinner Sweet je skrznaskrz zkažený pistolník – lstivý, nemilosrdný a nebezpečný jako chřestýš. A to bylo ještě předtím, než na Divoký západ přijeli evropští upíři a proměnili Skinnera v opravdovou nestvůru, silnější druh upíra imunního vůči slunečnému svitu, amerického upíra,jenž nenávidí veškeré své aristokratické evropské předky. Ale když Skinnerova válka s jeho předchůdci přiměje tajnou společnost Vazalové Jitřenky k tomu, aby se pustila do boje s oběma druhy upírů, Skinner si k sobě vybere první upírskou posilu: protloukající se mladistvou herečku Pearl Jonesovou.

Tom Ripley si ve Francii plnými doušky užívá život v luxusu - až do chvíle, kdy se z minulosti vynoří podvod s falešnými obrazy. Kolotoč lží, manipulací a zločinu se roztáčí naplno a Tom musí zajít mnohem dál, než si dokázal představit. Jenže hranice mezi pravdou a lží se začíná nebezpečně rozplývat. Druhý román s nepolapitelným podvodníkem se odehrává šest let po událostech knihy Talentovaný pan Ripley.