PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS
When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the HMS Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence... Čítať ďalej
`Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark and everyone sailing under a different sky'
Where do you go if you can't feel at home in your own family? When the people who made you can't fathom who you become?... Čítať ďalej
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.
First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about... Čítať ďalej
MOST LOVED. MOST RED. Ten must-read modern classics.
'Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.'
Imagine a world where women's bodies are controlled by men. Where society has descended... Čítať ďalej
Enderby is a poet, social critic and Catholic. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife, aftershave and the... Čítať ďalej
'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn'
Irish Times
A Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious... Čítať ďalej
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize
Paris, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir... Čítať ďalej
Human evolution in East Africa was driven by geological forces.
Ancient Greece developed democracy because of its mountainous terrain.
Voting behaviour in the United States today follows the bed of an ancient... Čítať ďalej
Read this fantastic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls.
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred.
Everyone at Appleyard College for... Čítať ďalej
An expansive, moving and captivating graphic memoir from the author of Fun Home.
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a literary phenomenon. While Fun Home explored Bechdel's relationship with her father, a closeted homosexual... Čítať ďalej
Keanu Reeves: actor, musician, dog lover. He's the internet's boyfriend. The poetic petrolhead. The guru on a surfboard. Part samurai, part samaritan. He is, very simply, 'The One'.
'James has been my movie guru... Čítať ďalej
Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing... Čítať ďalej
Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling
On Earth We're Briefly... Čítať ďalej
Internationally-acclaimed graphic-literary talent Alison Bechdel offers acerbically funny insight into the lesbian culture of 1980s America in this comic strip collection.
Bechdel's brilliantly imagined... Čítať ďalej
`A gripping espionage thriller' Observer
London, 1941. The city is in blackout and an enemy is hiding in plain sight.
Jack Hoste has become entangled in a national treachery. His mission: to locate the most dangerous... Čítať ďalej
On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing... Čítať ďalej
Now the subject of a major film.
Once or twice a generation, an athlete transcends his sport - at last, here's Seve Ballesteros in his own words
There are golfers, and there are golfers. And then there's Seve.
Severiano... Čítať ďalej
The Nature of Blood is an unforgettable novel about loss and persecution, about courage and betrayal, and about the terrible pain yet absoulte necessity of human memory.
A young Jewish woman growing up in Germany... Čítať ďalej
'-Stand firm'- said Peter, -and wave like mad!-'
They were not railway children to begin with. When their Father mysteriously leaves home Roberta (everyone calls her Bobbie), Phyllis and Peter must move to a small... Čítať ďalej
Murder stalks a touring stage production of A Christmas Carol in this 1930s-set festive mystery.
Murder stalks a touring stage production of A Christmas Carol in this 1930s-set festive mystery.
December 1935... Čítať ďalej
