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• Rok vydání 1831

Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that…

• Rok vydání 1943

In 1943, small teams of elite British soldiers began parachuting into the mountains of Axis-occupied Albania. They were…

Shrouded in shock and grief, he returns to Oxford that winter and begins to try to piece together the mystery surrounding…

Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero -…

For Richard and Sarah, leaving the rat-race of London for the sleepy village of Worth feels like a dream come true. Soon…

Paints a multi-dimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over the years, as well as the campaign that gradually…

Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in…

This is a book of enthusiasms: an intelligent and witty map of contemporary British poetry and a radical, accessible guide…

Beijing 2008, the 100 metres final: Usain Bolt slows down, beats his chest, metres clear of his nearest rival, his face…

Tracking these great and terrible beasts through the toughest terrain in the world, Quammen is equally intrigued by the…

Diane Arbus's startling photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks seemed from the first to redefine…

A dazzling collection of short fiction, containing stories published in New Writing and the Times Literary Supplement, as…

A stuffed bear, a pet mouse, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens... And what are…

Gives us an account of the author's early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States. Part memoir, part…

Gillian Tindall brings Paris alive - whether it's the network of streets that form the Left Bank, the resonance of 'Bohemia'…

and Jack, Nat's unexpectedly poignant uncle, who lives for fox-hunting. Intimate and disconcerting, compelling and comic, an…

• Rok vydání 1415

Does he deserve to be thought of as 'the greatest man who ever ruled England?'In Ian Mortimer's groundbreaking book, he…

A couple out walking in the woods discover the dead body of a half-naked boy. To Kristine's horror her husband begins to…

Born in Carlisle in 1887, brought up in a children's home and by reluctant relatives, Evie, with her wild hair and…

World-weary, distracted and more often than not the worse for wine, Michael Booth really needed to make some major changes…

Drawing on examples ranging from ancient Greece to Tony Blair's Britain, this title addresses 20 of questions that have…

UPDATED AND EDITED WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JUDITH ADAMSONWhether reporting from the London cinema, Cotswolds villages,…

The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk.…

• Thriller

The gripping new DCI Serena Flanagan thriller from the bestselling author of Those We Left Behind'Stuart Neville is...a…

This book is a comprehensive collection of his best pieces: from early work on The Clash, The Sex Pistols and David Bowie,…

No scientist has done more to shape our understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner…

Offers a collection of short stories that show us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. This title reveals the…

Offers an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon…

From the author of the acclaimed Revolution in the Head, Ian MacDonald takes us on a journey through the music of the…

The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting…

Tom and Meg fall in love in New York City and spend a passionate week together before he returns to his home in Edinburgh,…

Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for ChristmasWhen Mordecai…

• Detektivka

Detective Paul Hjelm and his team receive an urgent call from the FBI.…

Forced to leave the University of Baghdad when the Americans invade Iraq, a young man returns home to his small desert…

A guide to healing, combining medical expertise with unique insights into the human condition. Dr Christine Page illuminates…

But on this new level - espionage, state secrets, treason - their loyalties will be tested to the limit. This is a brutal…

When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects and documents which tell…

Or did they instead help regulate the conduct of war and moderate its violent excesses?Nigel Saul charts the introduction of…

Using Game Theory (a theory based on the rationale that everyone acts in their own self-interest) he can foretell and even…

An enthralling journey into the shadowy republic of Haiti. In the land of Vodou, zombies and the Tontons Macoute. In this…

• Rok vydání 1882

From the author of Half of the Human Race (Channel 4 TV Book Club) comes an intricate and thrilling tale of love and…

Combining popular intellectual history with a survey of recent business culture, Thomas Frank traces an idea he calls…

Gita Mehta's captivating and enchanting novel tells the story of a retired beurocrat who has escaped the world to spend his…

Useful for readers and aspiring writers, this book contains what they need to know about the complexities of researching,…

Maribel, beautiful bohemian wife of maverick political Edward Campbell Lowe and self-proclaimed Chilean heiress educated in…

At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga.…

This spirited and quirky penman has always set himself apart form the general grind of Irish writing and its set themes, to…

Presents the stories of Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson; Randolph Turpin,…