The archetypal Romantic, killed in a duel in 1837 at the age of 37, Alexander Pushkin was effectively the founder of modern Russian literature. Though famous as a poet, he was equally at home in pr...
Angielskie wydanie popularnej książki, która w przystępnej i atrakcyjnej formie opisuje dzieje Krakowa. Książka opisuje tysiąc lat z historii Krakowa od czasów przedhistorycznych do ...
THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Wise, authentic and brave' - Psychologies'Brimming with positive ways in which to think about creative living' - Mail on Sunday'Co...
For all those Anthony Bourdain fans who are hungering for more, here is Nasty Bits - a collection of his legendary journalism.As usual Bourdain serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of ca...
From the international bestselling author of The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: a powerful, moving novel of grief, hope, friendship and love based around a real archive on an island in Japan, ...
A beautifully illustrated collection of profiles of more than 80 goddesses and other powerful women retold for children aged 7-9.Delve into a world of key female figures from all over t...
Cam is living in Los Angeles and fallling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone, his spectral visits wild, tender and unexpected. When Cam returns to his home...
A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand ma...
One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most legendary spy...
At long last, Adam Sealey has an Oscar within reach. Working with his controversial former mentor, Jonathan, he's given the performance of a lifetime, and he almost believes it might be worth the c...
This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in...
Haunting and powerfully resonant... this is a story not just of remarkable individuals, but also a tribute to the wider indomitability of the human spirit at the darkest moment in European history'...
Welcome to Hampshire, 1795, where a young Jane Austen has her sights set on securing a marriage proposal from the dashing Tom Lefroy at a local ball.But when a shocking discovery is mad...
Her life is so full, so why is she hungry?‘A high-wire exploration of control, pleasure and desire’ Chloë Ashby‘A book that tears at the surface of things t...
The second volume takes the reader through the tumultuous twentieth century in the company of writers including Simone de Beauvoir and Maryse Condé, Patrick Modiano and Virginie Despentes, c...
The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a re...
Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the ills of social media. Is there a way back?Chris Anderson, the hea...
'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDYRestless outsider, masher-up of form and conventi...
Money is often thought of as the secret to a good life and the ultimate metric of success, yet research suggests a whole other story: time is the true yardstick of our lives. Organising our time ca...
A woman falls to her death from a London bank's twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace.You're arrested for her murder.You tell the police that you only met the victim the previous ...