Niełatwo powiedzieć, na czym polega tajemnica uroku wywieranego przez „Władcę Pierścieni”. Miał niewątpliwie rację C.S Lewis, pisząc: „Dla nas, żyjących w paskudnym, zmaterializo...
From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution o...
In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism.As a politics ...
'A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she'd spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmeri...
Most of us don't know it, but we are living in the world's greatest era of civil wars. While violence has declined worldwide, civil wars have increased. This is a new phenomenon. With the exception...
The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?In his revolutionary wo...
Przez wieki niewiele kobiet dożywało menopauzy. Średnia długość życia w 1900 roku wynosiła zaledwie 40 lat. Te, którym się udało, postrzegały menopauzę jako granicę, za którą czekała ...
We got ourselves into this. Here's how we can get ourselves out.We know the problem: the amount of biodiversity loss, the scale of waste and pollution, the amount of greenhouse gas we p...
Pre-order the heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd.'This book is about death,...
This is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of 'someth...
Frederic Henry is an American Lieutenant serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army during the First World War. While stationed in northern Italy, he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a...
Everything in QualityLand is geared towards optimizing your life. QualityPartner identifies your ideal mate, earworm personal assistants get you where you need to go and android drones know you nee...
‘A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion’ Independent Open S...
Spring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West. His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of ...
We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat of some dark psychic mechanism'The Cuban Revolution changed the course of the twentieth century. Following years of brut...
Discover how adorable baby animals survive in the wild with this entertaining read for children aged 9+ all about the animal kingdom!Have you ever wondered what it's like for baby anima...
The first ever guided journal from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist and one of the most influential authors of our time.Paulo Coelho is one of the bestselling authors in the world,...
Only one person knows what really happened to Amy, other than Amy herself. He is Tyler James, Amy’s best friend from the age of thirteen. They met at stage school as two insecure outsiders, f...
W eseju pisanym pod koniec 1943 r. Emanuel Ringelblum wspominał: „Od razu w pierwszych miesiącach po podjęciu przeze mnie pracy w »Oneg Szabat« przyciągnąłem kilku ludzi do wsp&oa...
Ludzie z pierwszych stron gazet: Nałkowska, Barszczewska, Halama, Mościcki, Gombrowicz i ci mniej znani: Straszewicz, Parnell, Pruszkowski, Roszkowska, Stempowski - w scenerii upalnego lata. Ich na...