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The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea... Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, sits primly in a second class carriage on the train from Sussex to London and imagines a new life in the big city... George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Foot, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough. They lived, loved, felt joy and fear, and ultimately died. But who were they? And what indissoluble thread binds them together? Simon Mawer's compelling and original novel puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice. He has created stories that are gripping and heart-breaking, from the squalor and vitality of Dickensian London to the excitement of seafaring in the last days of sail and the horror of the trenches of the Crimea. There is birth and death; there is love, both open and legal but also hidden and illicit. Yet the thread that connects these disparate figures is something that they cannot have known - the unbreakable bond of family.

Tři oblíbené tituly Simona Mawera v dárkovém boxu! Pražské jaro, Skleněný pokoj, Mendelův trpaslík. Tři romány bestsellerového autora, jejichž děj se inspirován českými a moravskými reáliemi. V Pražském jaru se Mawer vrací do Československa šedesátých let s příběhem o sexu, politice a zradě. Dva studenti Oxfordu, James a Eleanor, se rozhodnou stopovat Evropou a jejich přátelství se komplikuje. Po příjezdu do jižního Německa se rozhodnou navštívit Československo, kde Dubčekův „socialismus s lidskou tváří“ láká k objevování. Mezitím britský diplomat Sam Wareham sleduje vývoj v zemi s cynismem a vášní, zatímco se zaplétá do života české studentky Lenky. Politické napětí narůstá, když sovětský vůdce Brežněv vyvíjí nátlak na Dubčeka. Skleněný pokoj je román inspirovaný skutečným osudem vily Tugendhat, odrážející tragédii českého národa. Vila, postavená pro židovsko-křesťanský pár, vyzařuje krásu a majestátnost, dokud nenastoupí nacisté a manželé musí odejít. Vila mění majitele, od českých po nacistické a sovětské, až se vrátí do státního vlastnictví. Mendelův trpaslík sleduje příběh vědce Benedicta Lamberta, který se zabývá genetickou poruchou, jež ho osobně zasahuje. S humorem a sebeironií se potýká s etickými otázkami manipulace s životy a osobním štěstím. Paralela s jeho vzdáleným příbuzným, Gregorem Mendel, dodává příběhu další rozměr.

Een studentenstel uit Engeland maakt in 1968 de Praagse Lente mee.

Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is now back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. De-briefed by the same shadowy branch of the secret service that sent her to Paris to extract a French atomic scientist, Marian is now plunged into the cold war. Simon Mawer's sense of time and place is perfect and this is another compelling novel about identity and deception which constantly surprises the reader.

A diplomat's daughter, Marian Sutro is an outsider - half French, half British. When she is recruited by SOE, her hybrid status and fluent French will be of service for her to go undercover in wartime France on a dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage, dead-drops, how to perform under interrogation and how to kill, Marian parachutes into south-west France - officially as a Resistance courier. But her real destination is Paris, where she must find Clement Pelletier, a family friend, once the focus of her adolescent desires. A nuclear physicist, Pelletier is engaged in the race for a new and terrifying weapon and of urgent significance to her superiors. Marian struggles towards this reunion, understanding that war changes everything, and neither love nor fatherland may be trusted.

Paris 1943: Eine mutige junge Frau gerät zwischen die Fronten des Krieges – und findet sich zwischen zwei Männern wieder Marian Sutro ist kein Mädchen wie die anderen. Soeben aus der Schule ins Leben entlassen, kauert die neunzehnjährige Londonerin nun vor der geöffneten Tür eines Flugzeugs der Royal Airforce, unter ihr das besetzte Frankreich, bereit, mit dem Fallschirm ins Ungewisse zu springen. Sie soll ihre Jugendliebe Clément aufsuchen, der in Paris für die Nazis als Wissenschaftler arbeitet. Wird sie ihre Aufgabe erfüllen? Wird sie Clément finden – und was wird dann mit Benoît, ihrem neuen Liebhaber? Ein packender Roman über eine starke junge Frau, die Mut in gefährlichen Zeiten beweist, und eine »Casablanca«-gleiche Liebesgeschichte vor der Kulisse des historischen Paris.

Like his great, great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he is afflicted with achondroplasia -- he's a dwarf. He's also a man desperate for love. And when he finds it in the form of Jean -- simple and shy -- he stumbles upon an opportunity to correct the injustice of his own capricious genes. As intelligent as it is entertaining, this witty and surprisingly erotic novel reveals the beauty and drama of scientific inquiry as it informs us of the simple passions against which even the most brilliant mind is rendered powerless

Jewish newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer build their dream home, and despite the low hum of the German war machine reverberating through the land, the two look forward to a life of promise. But as war becomes inevitable, their lives are transformed in profound ways.

As Dee Denham, once a beautiful and beloved wife, the toast of colonial Cyprus, lies dying, her former life seems unimaginably distant. And then out of the blue Dee speaks to her son Thomas, sitting at her bedside: she tells him that her illness is a punishment. Compelled by a grief he cannot articulate and a confused childhood memory of betrayal, as Thomas begins the process of dismantling his mother's life he finds himself searching for the meaning of her last words. Embarked on a dangerous liaison of his own, he searches through faded photographs and love letters, seeks out survivors and examines his own imperfect remembrance, and suddenly a whole vanished world comes to life. The restless, seductive island of Cyprus at the end of Empire, a place of oleander and carob trees, cocktails at the Harbour Club and adultery in shuttered bedrooms, peopled by ghostly admirers and conspirators, lovers and spies. With gathering momentum Dee's story unfolds, an intimate history of violence and tenderness for which Thomas finds himself quite unprepared, and in the background the distant, ominous roar of approaching disaster. A vivid, precise evocation of the past and a deft and sensitive examination of the dangerous power of memory, Swimming to Ithaca sets fragile human relationships against the heedless, unstoppable force of history and sheds new light on both

Considered one of the greatest scientists in history, Gregor Mendel was the first person to map the characteristics of a living thing’s successive generations, thus forming the foundation of modern genetic science. In Gregor Mendel , distinguished novelist and biologist Simon Mawer outlines Mendel’s groundbreaking research and traces his intellectual legacy from his discoveries in the mid-19th century to the present.In an engaging narrative enhanced by beautiful illustrations, Mawer details Mendel’s life and work, from his experimentation with garden peas through his subsequent findings about heredity and genetic traits. Mawer also highlights the scientific work built on Mendel’s breakthroughs, including the discovery of the DNA molecule by scientists Watson and Crick in the 1950s, the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, and the advances in genetics that continue today.