Ever since it exploded into Vietnam's cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation's most beloved and defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the bea...
Horace Rumpole - dishevelled barrister at law, drinker of claret and smoker of cigars, inveterate quoter of Wordsworth and eternal defender of the underdog - is one of the greatest English comic ch...
It's the day Izzy's father will be released from jail.She has every reason to feel conflicted - he's the man who gave her a childhood filled with happy memories.But he has a...
This is WWII history, as it happened. All the horror and excitement of eleven months that changed the world.On D-Day (6 June 1944) a team of BBC reporters, trained and were embedded wit...
Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton AbbeyOn a summer's day in 1922, Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, charged with the care of a st...
'Peerless in its wit, elegance and silliness.’ Evening Standard BOOKS OF THE YEARStorm clouds loom over Europe. Treason is afoot in the highest social circles. The very security o...
1952. Soviet troops control British streetsAfter the disastrous failure of D-Day, Britain is occupied by Nazi Germany, and only rescued by Russian soldiers arriving from the east and Am...
In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the first, she ventured further south than any human ...
Grace, Lia and Sky live in an abandoned hotel, on a sun-bleached island, beside a poisoned sea. Their parents raised them there to keep them safe, to make them good. The world beyond the water is c...
It's one of the most disturbing cases DI Fawley has ever worked.The Christmas holidays, and two children have just been pulled from the wreckage of their burning home in North Oxford. T...
We were wrong . . .Ten years ago, alien robots descended to Earth killing one hundred million people. And when they retreated, they took brilliant scientist Rose Franklin and her team w...
Właściciel sieci hoteli Vito Viscari i Eloise Dean poznali się na lotnisku. Ponieważ Eloise spóźniła się na lot do Paryża, Vito zaproponował, by poleciała z nim jego prywatnym samolotem. Wza...
A disgusting account of a school of giant squid attacking a seaside resort, and two other examples of Wells' extraordinary imagination at work - 'The Magic Shop' and 'The Land Ironclads'
Traktat Arystotelesa Peri hermeneias, zwany w polskiej tradycji Hermeneutyką, jest jednym z najważniejszych tekstów poświęconych logice i logicznym aspektom języka w dziejach filozofii europ...
Publikacja dokumentująca ważne artystyczne wydarzenie, poprzez które artyści pochodzący z Podlasia upomnieli się o pamięć o mało znanej tragedii. Monumentalne dzieło site-specific Małgorzaty...
Among Dostoevsky’s later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the ...
Begun in 1920 while Bulgakov was employed in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, and continued when he started working for a government literary department in Moscow, Notes o...
More than five thousand years ago, in a large region shaped by the Nile, one of the longest rivers in the world, one of the most remarkable and long-lasting civilizations in human history developed...
From its foundation in Rome, in the 8th Century BCE, until its fall, in the 5th Century CE, one of humanity's most extraordinary and influential civilizations developed: the Roman civilization. A c...
Geology is a deeply attractive science as it encompasses the fundamental issues of our planet: its origin, its formation, life in the past and current evolutionary processes, in which human beings ...