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...więcej »
'Outstanding... The best short introduction I have come across' Sunday TimesWhen he died at the age of just twenty-five, few imagined John Keats would one day be considered among the gr...więcej »
THE FIRST NOVEL FROM LEGENDARY FILMMAKER WERNER HERZOG1944: Lubang Island, the Philippines. With Japanese troops about to withdraw, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was given orders by his superi...więcej »
'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial TimesHow did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?From the author of the internat...więcej »
Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christen...więcej »
We are in a new era.From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi, self-styled strongmen have become a central feature of global politics. At home, they claim to be standing u...więcej »
We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other? Every act of human behaviour has multiple layers of c...więcej »
SUZUKI IS JUST AN ORDINARY MATHS TEACHER...UNTIL HIS WIFE IS MURDERED.Seeking justice, he leaves his old life behind to infiltrate the criminal gang responsible. What he doesn't realise...więcej »
Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family. Now the las...więcej »
It was 1941 when the German army rolled into Kyiv. The young Anatoli was just twelve years old. This book is formed from his journals in which he documented what followed.Many Ukrainian...więcej »
Frank's reclusive existence in a leafy part of London is shattered when he is summoned to Milan for the funeral of an old friend. Preoccupied by this sudden intrusion of his past, he flies, oblivio...więcej »
Ernest Hemingway's adventure novel set on the verge of the tropics.'Listen,' I told him. 'Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I ha...więcej »
Elizabeth Anscombe: defiantly brilliant, chain-smoking, trouser-wearing Catholic and (eventual) mother of seven.Philippa Foot: pathalogically discreet, quietly rebellious granddaughter of a U...więcej »
‘Many years ago – when our grandfathers were little children – there was a doctor and his name was Dolittle’Dr Dolittle lives in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh with his f...więcej »
"Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!"Tired of spring cleaning, Mole ventures above ground into the warm sunshine, a...więcej »
Read the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwanWilliam Stoner enters the University of Miss...więcej »
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human...więcej »
Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negr...więcej »
Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the plane's black box before it crashes. Br...więcej »
Lopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of the Arctic in all its guises.A hostile landscape of ice, freezing oceans and dazzling skyscapes. Home to millions of diverse...więcej »
