Takes us behind the scenes of Britain's criminal justice system. In this title, the author introduces us to its characters…

On 28 August 1984, Josef Fritzl drugged his teenage daughter with ether and imprisoned her in an underground bunker. Over…

Gives us a portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', interrogating both the author's…

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Produkt Life of My Own - Tomalin, Claire zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat a…

I am Zlatan - is the explosive, critically-acclaimed memoir of Zlatan Ibrahimovich, one of the world's most gifted and…

Journeying to Cameroon, the author and his wife collected numerous mammals, birds and reptiles, including Cholmondely the…

Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer's formative years - from tax problems to probation to American tours,…

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The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries. Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled…

When young Mollie became a 'skivvy' in a stately London townhouse aged just 14, she quickly learned that a large amount of…

Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his…

Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She…

A story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored…

In the last decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Brown build himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a…

Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured…

Recounts the kidnapping of the author in Africa aged ten, his service as a slave of an officer in the British Navy for ten…

Presents the dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most beautiful and remote…

DW Winnicott's books, including The Piggle, Home Is Where We Start From and The Child, Family and the Outside World are…

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• Rok vydání 2010

Escape to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire His colourful cast…

A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and…

When he was twenty-seven, Henry Molaison underwent surgery for his epilepsy. He awoke with part of his brain destroyed, and…

From the moment she came into the world - two weeks early, throwing her parents' lives into disarray - the author has…

• Rok vydání 1998

A biography of Charlotte that recounts Charlotte Bronte's life from her isolated childhood, through her years as a writer…

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• Rok vydání 2014

A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual…

\nThe inspiring true story of Fauja Singh, who broke world records to become the first one hundred-year-old to run a…

• Rok vydání 2020

From the comedian, actor, and former host of the Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his…

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In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS…

Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a…

Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was a…

Ryan Giggs first played for Manchester United in the season before the Premiership began; back when Bryan Robson was still…

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The inspiring and deeply personal memoir from highly acclaimed chef Dominique Crenn When Dominique Crenn decided to become a…

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The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her…

A phenomenonally precocious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and…

\nSophie Morgan is a submissive. An ordinary, successful young woman who in private surrenders her body and mind to a…

This is the sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein, a mythical New Yorker who was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in…

In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough. He was…

\nAquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical…

The author's son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein and a photographic memory. At nine he developed an original theory in…

A few years ago, Sean Quinn was ranked among the two hundred richest people in the world, with a personal fortune of some $6…

A memoir of Ronnie Drew, the late great Dubliner. It features interviews with Cliodhna and Phelim (daughter and son of…

In an era when Kilkenny established itself as the dominant force in hurling, one man stood out from a remarkable group of…