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*A Times, Telegraph, TLS and Prospect Book of the Year*'The best book I've read on George Eliot' John Carey, Sunday TimesAn…

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This is the diary of Lady Murasaki, the Japanese prose writer. It describes the Heian court at its apogee and offers an…

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The founding work of Romanticism which changed the direction of English poetry. Kniha 9780140424621 Lyrical Ballads | Samuel…

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Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, an impressive collection of First World War poetry…

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Captives and Companions, A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World od výrobce Penguin Books Ltd.…

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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of…

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'With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas,…

From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and…

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From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed.‘I’ve never felt…

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Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger in France and the Premio de la Critica in SpainConversation-starting and prize-winning…

Arthur Abdel Simpson is a failed journalist and soon-to-be failed thief, embittered by memories of his unhappy childhood in…

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'One of the very great writers of the last century' Guardian'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever…

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Straightened. Stigmatized. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never…

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What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time?'The best place to…

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The world-renowned economist offers a ground-breaking new vision for inclusive prosperityLeft behind places can be found in…

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Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the…

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From Orwell Prize winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad comes a searing and nuanced biography of a lost Iraq This is the…

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A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedomsOur human rights are endangered. After the…

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‘Lisa Kaltenegger offers first-hand access to her expertise on the search for planets in the universe, and the life they may…

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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES Colditz Castle: a forbidding Gothic tower on a hill in Nazi Germany. You…

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A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens…

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The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.Explaining…

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives…

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Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of…

The most fatal virus known to science, rabies - a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans - kills nearly one…

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Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian…

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"The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank". (Daily Telegraph). First they led us to the baths, where they…

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'Essential reading’ Rory Sutherland, author of Alchemy'Possibly the best-timed book ever’ Merryn Somerset Webb, Bloomberg…

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From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically…

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What’s your journey of becoming? Based on Michelle Obama’s bestselling memoir, this gorgeous journal features an intimate…

'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela DavisWritten at the height of the Algerian war…

Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'A masterpiece of reportage'…

The author was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he…

How close did Britain really come to invasion during this time? What were Hitler and Churchill's motives? And what was the…

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Now part of the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, the former Prussian and German port of Königsberg has always been a…

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A story that centres on the critical events in four days of the tenth and final year of the war between the Greeks and the…

'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Toibin'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the…

Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with…

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'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. Sebald Filip Kobal, an Austrian…

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These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a…

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