Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is the lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya that launched a million tourist trails, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'I had a ...
Since 2005, YouTube has exploded, giving a platform to unique and valuable voices, but also to propaganda, misinformation and illicit videos. The algorithm which determines whether a channel lives ...
Empty shelves, petrol station queues and energy shortages: crises more familiar to those who lived through the 1960s and 1970s have now become a reality for many as global shipping times are squeez...
Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd.He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death.He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including some of the most ...
London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city....
In 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task - following in the footsteps of one of history's greatest business visionaries, Steve Jobs. Facing worldwide scrutiny, Cook (who was often described as ...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's much-garlanded masterpiece: 'The most compelling biography I have read in years' Max Hastings By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Ke...
These are the stories of some of the women who changed our world. Read about the women who fought to be equal to men, and learn about the things that women have done in education, science, sport an...
We are now living in the world's greatest era of civil wars. While violence has declined worldwide, major civil wars are now being fought in countries including Iraq, Syria and Libya, and smaller c...
This is the story of what it takes to make it in fighter combat. In the cockpit or crew room, the pressure is relentless, the humour merciless.It's no place for the faint-hearted....
•SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022••A SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND THE GUARDIAN•The remarkable untold story of th...
Meet the Lazarus Group, a shadowy cabal of hackers accused of working on behalf of the North Korean state. They are one of the most effective criminal enterprises on the planet, having stolen more ...
Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool: through the stories of these five fabrics, Sofi Thanhauser illuminates the world we inhabit in a startling new way, travelling from China to Cumbria to reveal...
Niesamowita historia życia jednego z najsłynniejszych awanturników wszech czasów Casanova zdobył tyle kobiet, że jego nazwisko stało się w wielu językach synonimem uwodziciela. Jego p...
'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.'A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism...
The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the BeagleIntroducing Little Black Cl...
Historia jednego z najsłynniejszych amerykańskich seryjnych morderców, który może odpowiadać za śmierć nawet czterystu osób. Po aresztowaniu w 2003 roku Charles Cullen, dyplomo...
Jedna z największych powieści antywojennych w literaturze światowej. W zamyśle autora miała to być jego pierwsza książka. A jednak Vonnegut potrzebował dystansu lat, a także doświadczenia wynikają...
Kolejna książka autora „Spalić paszport”. Franciszkanin Bogusław Dąbrowski spędził prawie dwadzieścia lat w Ugandzie. Jak długo można wytrwać na misji, kochać Afrykę, nie zatracając swe...
Pierwsza biografia najsłynniejszego rosyjskiego opozycjonisty i osobistego wroga Putina Kim jest Aleksiej Nawalny? Po próbie otrucia w sierpniu 2020 roku i przewiezieniu na leczenie do Niem...