• Rok vydání 2021

In their fifth thrilling adventure, the explorers journey deep into the Bubble Ocean on their quest to stop the evil…

• Rok vydání 2026

A fresh and engaging celebration of the customs, places, objects and peoples that make up what we know as 'folk' in Britain.…

In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have…

\nThis extraordinary retelling of black British history will dazzle readers of all ages.\n…

\nThat brief burst of good fortune was destroyed by a corrupt political class which encouraged a wild property boom, leaving…

In mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the Observer…

\nFeatures historians, lawyers, economists and writers who come together to put a coherent case: that although the Irish…

\nIntroduced by Annie Proulx. lose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the…

\nLose yourself in this vivid travelogue evoking the historic Mediterranean island of Sicily by the king of travel writing…

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• Rok vydání 2025

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII…

• Počet stran 336
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2013

At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later,…

The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H., a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the…

'An enthralling narrative of the rise and fall of Britain's republican experiment.'DOMINIC SANDBROOK, The Times 'Best…

• Rok vydání 2015

We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic wars - but what of those left behind? This book…

As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. On first publication in…

Trieste.…

Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, "Difficult Daughters" is the story of…

When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the…

Features real-life stories of survival, including, a sailor who survived for 133 days on a raft in the Atlantic when his…

• Čeština

\n From the author of Golden Hill \'Glorious.\' Evening Standard\'Exhilarating.\' TLS\'Brilliant.\' Observer\'Dazzling.\'…

\nLose yourself in an epic naval journey in the second novel in the Booker Prize-winning Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord…

\nThe epic imaginative enterprise [is] as formidable a feat as the year-long odyssey it charts.\' Sunday Times\'Golding…

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• Rok vydání 2005

Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907 and educated at Marlborough and Merton College, Oxford. For most of his working…

• Rok vydání 2014

The story of the rise of Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly. And the story of the retirement of Bill Shankly. Of one…

• Čeština

Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most forthright people. This apparent 'pact of forgetting' inspired writer…

• Rok vydání 2019

'[A] mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world. Aciman's story of Alexandria is the story of his own family, a Jewish…

In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey, inspired by Charley's passion for Japanese Manga and…

\nThe Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the…

Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of…

\nLose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the Greek island of Rhodes after World War II by the king of travel…

Fresh from her successful scoop reporting the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Jan Morris spent a year journeying across the…

• Rok vydání 2019

But for those whose call deserts home, the 'hideous blanks' described by explorers are rich in resources and significance.…

\nAs childhood memory is grafted to the world of imagination - shaped by books, art, music and travel - the two come…

\nA nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, following her journey from…

Benedict Allen travelled through Papua New Guinea in search of a tribe that would let him participate in an initiation…

• Rok vydání 2023

\n\'One of the most original and audacious autobiographies ever written by a writer.\' Le Monde Hand to Mouth tells the…

\nThis edition gathers together Barbara Kingsolver\'s vibrant and various poems, revealing an intimate side to her creative…

Its extraordinary musical tradition and physical beauty are shadowed by casual murder, police brutality and political…

In the wake of the EU referendum, the United Kingdom's border with Ireland has gained greater significance: it is set to…

• Počet stran 256
• Rok vydání 2017

Richly observed, this witty and yet deeply moving tale of Charlotte Hobson's year travelling around Russia takes us to the…

An essential guide to the strange, sometimes sinister culture of contemporary Italy. When Tobias Jones first travelled to…

A vast range of human experience is here: most are anonymous, everyday encounters - children playing, a homeless man in…

\nBrittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people ofWales during a period of great national change.\n…

\nPure Pleasure gives us fifty of the most enjoyable books of the twentieth century, chosen on a single principle - the…

Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John: who were these men and their fellow Apostles? By visiting holy sites around the world, and…

Some things haven't altered for centuries, while others are changing at an alarming pace. Written with his trademark vivid,…

In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolo and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes,…

\nIn the sixteenth century, the vast and sophisticated empire of China lay almost entirely unknown to Western travellers.\n…