In A.J.P. Taylor's words, Churchill was 'the saviour of his country' when he became prime minister in 1940. Yet he was also a deeply flawed character.Giving due credit to Churchill's ac...więcej »
'Hilarious, ferocious, generous and convincing. It made me reconsider almost everything I thought I knew about Africa.' Oliver BulloughAfrica Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of mo...więcej »
A captivating novella by one of the most important thinkers, writers and feminists of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir.Nicole and André, a retired French couple, take a ...więcej »
From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Designing Your LifeWith this innovative and deeply empowering book, all of us can find answers to these challenging questions. It offer...więcej »
When filmmaker, Lisa Lee, goes missing alongside a priceless Roman silver casket, there is no doubt the two are linked together.The day after her vanishing, the casket is listed for auc...więcej »
The stunning advances that have transformed human experience in recent centuries are no accident of history - they are the result of universal and timeless forces, operating since the dawn of our s...więcej »
This is a story of East and West. A story of love, betrayal, and lost illusions...The end of the Cold War seems unimaginable for Milena, a Red Princess trapped in a lifetime of limitles...więcej »
Bulawayo broaches what it means to fight for democracy and call somewhere home in a timely and imaginative way . . . A memorable, funny and yet serious allegory about a country's plight under tyran...więcej »
DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.'A sapphic graphic treat' The TimesA moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfect...więcej »
A poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.'Luck is a feast which doesn't stay in one place'Richard Can...więcej »
From a tiny crimson pear in the west of England to an exploding corn in Mexico, there are thousands of foods that are at risk of being lost for ever. Dan Saladino spans the globe to uncover their s...więcej »
A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.In the Land of the Cyclo...więcej »
It's 1967 and London is alive with the new youth revolution. In the suburbs, meanwhile, Phyllis Fischer inhabits a world of conventional stability. Married with two children, her life is both comfo...więcej »
Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for ...więcej »
The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseb...więcej »
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, reads:...więcej »
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long...więcej »
Reckless, angry and adrift, Bigger Thomas has grown up trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. But a job with the affluent Dalton family provides the setting for a catastrophic collis...więcej »
From the award-winning translators of Crime and Punishment, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.Dostoevsky first conceived of this book as a 'novel-pamphlet' in which he intended to ...więcej »
Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith's entry into Vintage Classics'Marvellously, insan...więcej »
