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• Rok vydání 2016

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGANIn this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and…

• Rok vydání 2018

A Times History Book of the Year The voyage of the Mayflower is one of the seminal events in world history. Yet, fifty years…

From the author of the Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White HouseRupert Murdoch is one…

One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk…

It is an epic tale full of the romance and legend of feudal life, the glamour and licence of the international political…

• Rok vydání 1895

In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. Her husband, father, aunt and four…

TOP TEN BESTSELLERMount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Having recently…

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• Rok vydání 1997

A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them…

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From the age of 21, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament - his witness, the quintessence…

• Rok vydání 2014

Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black…

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• Rok vydání 2021

Between colleagues and friends there is a startling candour seldom found in formal interviews, a sense that the guard is…

The greatest sports stars characterise their times. Tim Adams sets out to explore what it might have meant to be John…

• Rok vydání 2014

The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.…

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• Rok vydání 2021

An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring…

Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus…

• Rok vydání 2015

lanterne rouge: French / noun1. The competitor who finishes last in the Tour de FranceIf you complete a bike race of over…

Melanie Klein's writings, particularly on infant development and psychosis, have been crucial both to theoretical work and…

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• Rok vydání 2022

TWO LOST HOURS ABOARD A UFO—THE ABDUCTION OF BETTY AND BARNEY HILL • One of the most extraordinary UFO tales of our time—a…

• Rok vydání 2020

WINNER OF THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Vast crowds have…

Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of…

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The…

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As he portrays the Comanche lifestyle, Fehrenbach re-creates their doomed battle against European encroachment. While they…

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• Rok vydání 2023

Finally reaching an uninhabited island, Shackleton, Worsley and four others sailed eight hundred miles in a small boat to…

What has made women unhappy in the last decade? Faludi writes 'is not their equality' - which they don't yet have - but the…

In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El…

The radical, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Alex Haley's own twelve-year search for his family's origins: a powerful…

• Rok vydání 2017

Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in The Times'There is no doubt that Moss's book, with its charming cover and quaint…

His companions - who do know - leave the girl to die. When Turner travels to the remote mining town that Margot owns -…

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• Rok vydání 2023

The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical''s deadly secret of Love…

• Rok vydání 2009

This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The TimesTolstoy's enthralling epic depicts…

• Rok vydání 2010

Despite the horrors that Scott and his men eventually faced, Cherry-Garrard's account is filled with details of scientific…

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA concise, sharp-witted and illuminating account of the lives of Britain's prime ministers from…

• Rok vydání 2019

The story of Tommy Nutter is the story of a man who climbs up from nothing to reshape the silhouette of British fashion. It…

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works\'James Wood is a…

Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite…

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• Rok vydání 2023

An anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the enchanting and eternally popular world of…

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• Rok vydání 2024

• Rok vydání 1967

Fashion never ceases to interest psychologists, aestheticians and sociologists. The Fashion System, published in France in…

Every atom and elementary particle stores these bits, and every collision between those atoms and particles flips the bits…

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In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to…

In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the aftermath…

Whether in the world's most outlandish and awe-inspiring places or just at the end of your road, fishing will introduce you…

Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and…

When Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend plummeting to an ordeal few mountaineers can have contemplated, the…