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О русских эмигрантах у нас принято рассказывать чаще всего с акцентом на нелёгкую судьбу и на выпавшие им испытания. При этом истории о достижениях и признании незаслуженно обходят стороной.
Однако в этой книге русская эмиграция показана с непривычно…
О русских эмигрантах у нас принято рассказывать чаще всего с акцентом на нелёгкую судьбу и на выпавшие им испытания. При этом истории о достижениях и признании незаслуженно обходят стороной.
Однако в этой книге русская эмиграция показана с непривычно…
This collection brings together the best of C.S. Lewis’s letters – some published for the first time. Arranged in chronological order, this is the first volume covering Family Letters: 1905-1931.C.S. Lewis was a most prolific letter writer and his pe…
This collection brings together the best of C.S. Lewis’s letters – some published for the first time. Arranged in chronological order, this is the first volume covering Family Letters: 1905-1931.C.S. Lewis was a most prolific letter writer and his pe…
This collection brings together the best of C.S. Lewis’s letters, many published for the first time. Arranged in chronological order, this final volume covers the years 1950 – the year ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ was published – through to…
This collection brings together the best of C.S. Lewis’s letters, many published for the first time. Arranged in chronological order, this final volume covers the years 1950 – the year ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ was published – through to…
В этот сборник вошли тексты Ремарка, никогда ранее не публиковавшиеся на русском языке, – дневниковые записи, письма и стихи, которые он писал всю жизнь.
Один из величайших писателей ХХ столетия предстает в этом сборнике обычным человеком, – человеко…
В этот сборник вошли тексты Ремарка, никогда ранее не публиковавшиеся на русском языке, – дневниковые записи, письма и стихи, которые он писал всю жизнь.
Один из величайших писателей ХХ столетия предстает в этом сборнике обычным человеком, – человеко…
В твоей душе лежит сокровище — СЛОВО. Твой инструмент, твои струны, клавиши, регистры. Твой ноктюрн и симфония. Слово, «пока есть в горле влага, не без приюта». Оно звучит с экрана или со сцены прекрасного города у «самого синего моря» — с театром, к…
В твоей душе лежит сокровище — СЛОВО. Твой инструмент, твои струны, клавиши, регистры. Твой ноктюрн и симфония. Слово, «пока есть в горле влага, не без приюта». Оно звучит с экрана или со сцены прекрасного города у «самого синего моря» — с театром, к…
Книга посвящена жизни и деятельности известного энтомолога Евгения Михайловича Степанова – основателя и директора лабораторий по биоконтролю на Черноморском побережье Кавказа (в Сухуми и Батуми), систематика жуков-щелкунов, натуралиста и вдохновителя…
Книга посвящена жизни и деятельности известного энтомолога Евгения Михайловича Степанова – основателя и директора лабораторий по биоконтролю на Черноморском побережье Кавказа (в Сухуми и Батуми), систематика жуков-щелкунов, натуралиста и вдохновителя…
«Ночные летописи» записывались на диктофон народным художником России Геннадием Михайловичем Добровым в начале 2006 года. Почти полная слепота его продолжалась более полутора лет, но после нескольких операций зрение частично восстановилось. Это было …
«Ночные летописи» записывались на диктофон народным художником России Геннадием Михайловичем Добровым в начале 2006 года. Почти полная слепота его продолжалась более полутора лет, но после нескольких операций зрение частично восстановилось. Это было …
Книга генерал-лейтенанта НКВД П.А. Судоплатова, одного из руководителей службы разведки и диверсий, которого с приходом к власти Н.С. Хрущева оклеветали как нежелательного свидетеля и на долгие годы вычеркнули из истории органов безопасности, рассказ…
Книга генерал-лейтенанта НКВД П.А. Судоплатова, одного из руководителей службы разведки и диверсий, которого с приходом к власти Н.С. Хрущева оклеветали как нежелательного свидетеля и на долгие годы вычеркнули из истории органов безопасности, рассказ…
Matthew Dennison creates a revealing portrait of the brave and charismatic Vita, in the first biography of her to be written for thirty years.Vita Sackville-West was a woman who defied categorisation. She was the dispossessed girl whose lonely childh…
Matthew Dennison creates a revealing portrait of the brave and charismatic Vita, in the first biography of her to be written for thirty years.Vita Sackville-West was a woman who defied categorisation. She was the dispossessed girl whose lonely childh…
Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home.Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster carer on New Year’s Da…
Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home.Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster carer on New Year’s Da…
The second book from Sunday Times bestselling author Linda Fairley.‘No matter how many babies I deliver, each and every one is a miracle, connecting me to the world like nothing else, reminding me that we are all equal in the beginning, and in the en…
The second book from Sunday Times bestselling author Linda Fairley.‘No matter how many babies I deliver, each and every one is a miracle, connecting me to the world like nothing else, reminding me that we are all equal in the beginning, and in the en…
The story of a fascinating man who connected the great politicians, artists and thinkers at the height of British global power and influence.A famed aesthete, politician and patron of the arts, Philip Sassoon lived in a world of English elegance and …
The story of a fascinating man who connected the great politicians, artists and thinkers at the height of British global power and influence.A famed aesthete, politician and patron of the arts, Philip Sassoon lived in a world of English elegance and …
Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies. In this critically acclaimed, bestselling biography she shares the history of the incredible woman who c…
Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies. In this critically acclaimed, bestselling biography she shares the history of the incredible woman who c…
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes’s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain’s greatest poets.‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic bi…
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes’s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain’s greatest poets.‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic bi…
Written with self-excoriating candour and the driest humour, comes a book about being a dad from one of our best loved journalists.“For me the hardest task of fatherhood was always the oppressive obligation to lead by example. My sons have been prese…
Written with self-excoriating candour and the driest humour, comes a book about being a dad from one of our best loved journalists.“For me the hardest task of fatherhood was always the oppressive obligation to lead by example. My sons have been prese…
Max Hastings's account of his family's tumultuous 20th century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers, theatre and TV, pioneering in Africa and even – his father's most exotic 1960 stunt – being cast away on a desert island in the …
Max Hastings's account of his family's tumultuous 20th century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers, theatre and TV, pioneering in Africa and even – his father's most exotic 1960 stunt – being cast away on a desert island in the …
The new face of risky drinking is female. The problem: a global epidemic of bingeing. The solution: a brave new approach to female recovery.This is my story, and it's particular. But I am not alone. Drinking problems challenge a growing number of wom…
The new face of risky drinking is female. The problem: a global epidemic of bingeing. The solution: a brave new approach to female recovery.This is my story, and it's particular. But I am not alone. Drinking problems challenge a growing number of wom…
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke’s beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains.Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern conservatism, Edm…
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke’s beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains.Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern conservatism, Edm…
This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British his…
This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British his…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018
Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs b…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018
Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs b…