Bruce Chatwin is one of the most significant British novelists and travel writers of our time. His books have become modern-day classics which defy categorisation, inspired by and reflecting his in...
‘We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis’ e...
„Dotychczasowa tradycja interpretowania utworów romantyka jest tradycją niepełną, cząstkową, często świadomie pomijającą wiele tekstów literackich poety. Deprecjonowanie przez k...
‘The single most influential spokesperson for organic psychedelics’ The IndependentWhat can altered states of consciousness reveal about our origins and our place in nature?...
‘I was saying things in songs that female singers didn’t really say back then. I wasn’t submissive or begging him to come back, I was kicking his ass, kicking him out, kicking my ...
When the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted t...
Pierwsza w Polsce wydawana biografia jednego z najważniejszych władców czasów kontrreformacji i wojny trzydziestoletniej w Europie. To cesarz, którego polityka ukształtowała ma...
Drugi tom biografii Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza przedstawia losy pisarza po 1939 roku. Autor tworzy biografię totalną, obejmującą wiele aspektów życia bohatera. Nie unika wątków kontrower...
Tymczasem w roku 1928 w Biurze Szyfrów wiedza o Enigmie nie istnieje. Wszyscy jedynie zdają sobie sprawę, że wiedza o poczynaniach przeciwnika zdobywana przez radiowywiad i dekryptaż jego de...
When Alistair Cooke retired in February 2004 he was acclaimed as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letter from America radio series, which began in 1946 and continued every week for...
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identityEvery day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma – how to look...
ohn Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibit...
Szaleńcza misja lotnicza, która stała się legendą Operacja Chastise stała się legendą już w chwili, gdy ostatni z ocalałych Lancasterów dotykał kołami pasa startowego w Scampton. W...
An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City.Drawing on his family’s own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and yea...
'Essential and definitive' - CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLEWe are in a new era.Since the beginning of the millennium, when Vladimir Putin took power in Russia, a...
A publishing event from music legend Paul Simon: an intimate, candid, and definitive biography written with Simon’s full participation—but without his editorial control—by acclaim...
‘It is Hustvedt’s gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.’ Hilary Mantel, GuardianFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essa...
For Picasso he was ‘like our father’; for Matisse, ‘a god of painting’. Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) is widely regarded as the father of modern art. In this authori...
A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally bestselling author.'Back in the 1960s, ...
One of the least understood stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but also by thousands of ordinary Germans ...