The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film.‘You can learn more about h...więcej »
The epic story continues in Court, the fourth in New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff's lush, action-packed and romantic young adult paranormal fantasy series.'Fandom's new fav...więcej »
Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stan...więcej »
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTIONA beautiful, stunningly ambit...więcej »
Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive ove...więcej »
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the...więcej »
From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight backOver...więcej »
Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe's pecking order. Other ...więcej »
The phenomenal new novel, based on a true story, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters.Singapore is burning. It ...więcej »
A missing plane resurfaces – and so do long-submerged secrets…An RAF Dakota, presumed lost at sea during World War Two, has just been discovered at the bottom of a dr...więcej »
1963. In a desolate Russian penal colony, a radio broadcasts news of the killing ofPresident John F. Kennedy . . .Alexander Vasin's new posting as director of a brutal gulag camp ...więcej »
The cover image presents the painting The Boyar Morozova (1887) by Vasily Surikov. The scene pressents a noblewoman - Feodisiya Morozova, being shackled and sent to exile to a monastery in Borovosk...więcej »
History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book ... until now. The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks pulls it all together, from the world'...więcej »
An Auschwitz prisoner's remarkable account of suffering and survival, an international bestseller and the only complete book written inside the camp.Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psy...więcej »
Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicke...więcej »
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emer...więcej »
I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart...In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survi...więcej »
In 1918, Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated.Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's descript...więcej »
HEROISM CAN BE FOUND IN THE QUIETEST PLACES - HOW LIBRARIANS DEFIED THE NAZISTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'A wonderful novel celebrating the power of books and...więcej »
On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to ...więcej »
