Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, "A Poet's Guide to Britain" is a major poetry anthology in its…

India is the biggest democracy on earth, a country of dynamic change, huge divisions and countless identities. Is there any…

From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has…

William Cobbett provides evocative descriptions of the 19th century southern English countryside, his encounters with…

Deals with the people, places and history of south Connemara - one of Ireland's last Gaelic-speaking enclaves - with the…

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The definitive guide to the history of economic thought, fully revised twenty years after first publication Roger…

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The early 1980s in Britain were a time of hope, and of dread: of Cold War tension and imminent conflict, when crowds in the…

Includes supernatural tales and legends: from a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell…

• Rok vydání 2009

In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering…

Tells the story of the summer author spent caddying for Scottish golfer Ross Drummond, ranked over 400 in the world, on the…

• Rok vydání 2022

65,000 tons. 280 metres long. A flight deck the size of sixty tennis courts. A giant piece of Sovereign British territory…

Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a…

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In line with Napoleon's own military actions, he illustrated the need to annihilate the enemy and make a strong display of…

The life of Frederick Douglass is nothing less than the history of America in the 19th century from slavery to…

An account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin…

Wentworth in Yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest and largest…

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Creativity is the fastest growing business in the world. Companies are hungry for people with ideas - and more and more of…

Roger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this collection charts his passage from youthful exuberance to the…

An historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944.…

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil…

A chronicle of one of London's most remarkable streets, Brick Lane. It attempts to bring to life the memories and realities…

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Growing up in South Wales, Rob Brydon had a passion for radio and soon the Welsh airwaves resounded to his hearty burr.…

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Drawing on a cache of personal documents, the author retraces Bruno Langbehn's journey from disillusioned adolescent to SS…

• Rok vydání 2012

From the Manchester backwaters to the worldwide 2012 tour, this title lays bare the irresistible tale of the last of the…

• Rok vydání 1916

The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in…

Offers a personal record of the author's north-east London home in which he has lived for forty years. This documentary…

This is a portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The…

Moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a place that Wittgenstein, who…

When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the…

In the first years of the thirteenth century Villehardouin served as an envoy in the Fourth Crusade. Half a century later,…

Includes 240 crossword puzzles.…

Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the…

One of Spain's greatest and most well-loved poets, Lorca is admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his…

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This is Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year, with its various observances and festivals, written in elegiacs. Ovid's…

A collection of plays that focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them.…

Pliny's "Natural History" is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to…

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One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his…

• Rok vydání 1960

In a Norwegian glacier during World War Two a Nazi officer makes an extraordinary discovery - the most legendary ship of all…

Life for the Gervase Phinn is about to become not unlike the rambling hills of the Dales themselves - up and down and all…

• Rok vydání 2006

Up till 2006 a British Ambassador leaving his post was encouraged to write what was known as a valedictory despatch, to be…

Tells the story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most marginal of European…

Covering the period from the rise of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BC to the eve of the Battle of Actium, this book offers a…

What is a difficult conversation? Asking for a pay rise, saying 'no' to your boss or spouse, confronting a friend or…

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the…

This is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their…

Includes 240 puzzles, which gives coffee time clues and cryptic clues.…