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Abstract: About a Boy is Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller 'How cool was Will Freeman?'Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy.Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will - and won't let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up?This astonishing novel, now a modern classic, was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film About A Boy, starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult. Fans of One Day by David Nicholls and Any Human Heart by William Boyd will devour this book, as will lovers of fiction everywhere.'A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping' Marie Claire'About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision' Irish Times'It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it - in buckets' Literary ReviewNick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved widespread critical acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels High Fidelity, How to be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award), Slam and Juliet, Naked. His three works of non-fiction, 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree are also available from Penguin.

Abstract: High Fidelity is Nick Hornby's hilarious and heart-breaking first novel bestsellerDo you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups?Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered. But Rob finds he can't move on. He's stuck in a really deep groove - and it's called Laura. Soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life - and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do.A million-copy bestseller, and adapted into a 2000 film starring John Cusack, High Fidelity explores the world of break-ups, make-ups and what it is to be in love. This astutely observed and wickedly funny book will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls and William Boyd, and by generations of readers to come.'It will give enormous pleasure at the same time as expanding in a small but worthwhile way, the range of English literature' Independent on Sunday'Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but above all the redemptive power of love. Funny and wise, sweet and true' Independent'A triumphant first novel. True to life, very funny and moving' Financial TimesNick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved great critical acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels About a Boy, How to be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award), Slam and Juliet, Naked. His three works of non-fiction, 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree are also available from Penguin.

Abstract: Of the countless vampire movies, books, and plays out there, Bram Stoker's Dracula is still the OG of blood-sucking monsters. Told as a series of letters and journal entries, this classic follows a young Englishman to Transylvania where he encounters his client Count Dracula. After revealing himself, the Count soon makes his way back to England on a blood-sucking tour. Chock full of lunatics, vampire dogs, beheadings, and gore, this is a timeless piece of horror.

Abstract: It was Lady Windermere's last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker's Levée in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess Sophia of Carlsrühe, a heavy Tartar-looking lady, with tiny black eyes and wonderful emeralds, talking bad French at the top of her voice, and laughing immoderately at everything that was said to her. It was certainly a wonderful medley of people. Gorgeous peeresses chatted affably to violent Radicals, popular preachers brushed coat-tails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several Royal Academicians, disguised as artists, and it was said that at one time the supper-room was absolutely crammed with geniuses. In fact, it was one of Lady Windermere's best nights, and the Princess stayed till nearly half-past eleven.

Abstract: 1945. Claire Randall, durante una seconda luna di miele in Scozia, vive un'avventura straordinaria: attraverso il magico cerchio di pietre di Craigh na Dun viene catapultata nelle Highlands del 1743. Qui conosce il giovane Jamie Fraser, un nobile giacobita, con cui vive un'intensa storia d'amore e un matrimonio turbolento ma felice. Nei tre anni successivi viene coinvolta in intrighi e pericoli a causa della lotta fra clan scozzesi e della guerra fra Scozia e Inghilterra, che sfocia nello storico scontro nel Campo di Culloden. Claire purtroppo sa che quella battaglia sarà fatale per gli scozzesi e, in attesa di un bambino, si fa convincere da Jamie a fare ritorno nella sua epoca... Claire Randall farà il suo terzo viaggio nel tempo - dal 1968 al 1768 - per ritrovare e riabbracciare il suo amato Jamie. Altre avventure li attendono: questa volta diretti verso le Indie occidentali e le colonie americane, devono affrontare il rapimento della nipote di Jamie, i pirati, una strega e sopravvivere a sciabole e a una tempesta tropicale.

Abstract: Una giovane straniera arriva in una città notturna, vitale e degradata, percorsa da tensioni tra chi vi abita e forze occupanti. Tra incidenti e incontri inattesi la seguiamo mentre si avvicina al cuore proibito della città vecchia, immersa in una sospensione di mistero. Cinema Zenit è un’esperienza di fruizione unica, con atmosfere che coniugano una narrazione classica e stratificata a certa visionarietà di registi come Sokurov e Tarkovskij.

Abstract: È la storia di Auggie, nato con una tremenda deformazione facciale, che, dopo anni passati protetto dalla sua famiglia per la prima volta affronta il mondo della scuola. Come sarà accettato dai compagni? Dagli insegnanti? Chi si siederà di fianco a lui nella mensa? Chi lo guarderà dritto negli occhi? E chi lo scruterà di nascosto facendo battute? Chi farà di tutto per non essere seduto vicino a lui? Chi sarà suo amico? Un protagonista sfortunato ma tenace, una famiglia meravigliosa, degli amici veri aiuteranno Augustus durante l'anno scolastico che finirà in modo trionfante per lui. Il racconto di un bambino che trova il suo ruolo nel mondo. Il libro è diviso in otto parti, ciascuna raccontata da un personaggio e introdotta da una canzone (o da una citazione) che gli fa da sfondo e da colonna sonora, creando una polifonia di suoni, sentimenti ed emozioni.

Abstract: È questo, in molteplici sensi, un libro di confine: tra la biografia romanzata, il poema e il saggio critico, ambientato tra l'epoca elisabettiana e quella contemporanea, che il libro attraversa con ironica incisività, giocato sull'intercambiabilità e l'interazione dei sessi del personaggio protagonista, incarnazione dell'androginia prediletta dalla Woolf, simbolo della libertà interiore e della completezza creativa propria dell'artista.

Abstract: Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!