A big, brawling novel of waterfront life in Bahia, packed with cardsharpers, prostitutes, pimps, drunks and homeless Don…

With fascinating insight, impeccable research, and captivating writing, controversial psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, a new…

London Bridges, her first novel, evokes the mood and sheer enjoyability of classic English detective fiction, though it is…

Tells a complex story about human beings and their attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding…

To Penelope Butler the family was all, the sole ambition of her adult life. But when Rosemary discovers these private papers…

Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. After four years, she left him for…

This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of…

Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and…

\n\'Here is art which conceals art, and intellect which conceals intellect, so that by the end of the book one feels that…

In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks and Jorg Hensgen have collected the best fiction about war in the…

• Rok vydání 2023

Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and…

The ailing government's only hope lies in economic talks with the West, but then an ally of the GDR's chairman is found…

Thirteen Australian package tourists set off around the world on the holiday of a lifetime. Homesickness is an enchanting…

• Čeština

A gripping account of the moral and political challenges posed by the Iraq war from the Costa Award winning author of The…

Winter in South Africa - a time of searing drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of the Angolan conflict cast…

• 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…

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…

Born into an East Anglian royalist family in 1623, young Margaret Lucas went into Court service, accompanying the Queen,…

'The funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.' This is how W.C. Fields described Bert Williams, the…

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

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

Born around 630BC on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece,…

In 1851 Chapman brought Marian Evans - the future George Eliot - to London where her arrival caused rows in the household,…

Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to…

• 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…

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

Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. THE DEADMiles away, a vast aircraft…

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States was a virtuous man ensnared by an uncontrollable vice. This…

• Čeština

In the four decades since Franco's death foreign narratives - For Whom the Bell Tolls, Casablanca, Homage to Catalonia -…

• Rok vydání 2012

They fall in love and Noel keeps watching. In their final year, the boys room together and as Julius grows closer to Fall,…

From the author of the internationally acclaimed Putin's Russia and A Russian Diary. Until her murder in October 2006, Anna…

The first volume of John Fowles's Journals ended with him achieving international literary renown after the publication of…

The bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Tulip Fever is back with a warm, witty and wise novel about the…

Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep improving -…

By following a group of four contemporary girls - including her younger self - as they come of age in the seventies, Wolf…

Benjamin Lundy crossed oceans under sail in the late nineteenth century and over one hundred years later Derek Lundy, his…

Explores the rich heritage of Bowie's productive and inspired decade, and traces the way in which his music reflected and…

At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an…

Includes Ms Cupcake's indulgent recipes to make at home using ingredients readily available at the supermarket or local…

Yasmin Khan presents the overlooked history of India at war, and shows how mobilisation for the war unleashed seismic…

From 1930 until shortly before his death he shared with countless readers, listeners and viewers his remarkably catholic…

Golden Richards is a normal dad. Unbeknownst to his wives, Golden has taken a construction job on a Nevada brothel. Lying to…

The glittering letters of British socialite Lady Diana Cooper to her son John Julius Norwich, from pre-World War Two London…

Henry Irving - a merchant's clerk who became the saviour of British theatre - and Ellen Terry, who made her first theatre…

But as Wayne grows up within the hyper-male hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self - a girl he thinks of as…