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The Personals reveals how classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online – they can be a treasure trove of fascinating human stories; stories of love, loss, loneliness, redemption and hope.Some people do Sudoku, others …
The Personals reveals how classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online – they can be a treasure trove of fascinating human stories; stories of love, loss, loneliness, redemption and hope.Some people do Sudoku, others …
A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themselfWINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDAmrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home …
A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themselfWINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDAmrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home …
‘The UK's pre-eminent chronicler of financial crime’ New Yorker’Not just a readable, pacey account of an extraordinary individual and his quixotic quest … but also a troubling exposé of the fragility of our entire financial system … I loved it’O…
‘The UK's pre-eminent chronicler of financial crime’ New Yorker’Not just a readable, pacey account of an extraordinary individual and his quixotic quest … but also a troubling exposé of the fragility of our entire financial system … I loved it’O…
‘I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals’ Carl JungAn eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern a…
‘I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals’ Carl JungAn eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern a…
Он всегда был «левым», его притягивала идея социальной справедливости - умного равенства разных людей. Он не предал эту идею, как не предал ни одного человека из числа своих сотрудников, соратников, сограждан, близких. Геннадий Николаевич Селезнёв - …
Он всегда был «левым», его притягивала идея социальной справедливости - умного равенства разных людей. Он не предал эту идею, как не предал ни одного человека из числа своих сотрудников, соратников, сограждан, близких. Геннадий Николаевич Селезнёв - …
A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017.‘At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan’ Mary Beard‘Thomas’s elegant, charming book offers something for everyone – not just the super-fans’ IndependentWhen the Nobel Prize for Lit…
A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017.‘At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan’ Mary Beard‘Thomas’s elegant, charming book offers something for everyone – not just the super-fans’ IndependentWhen the Nobel Prize for Lit…
This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.This is a book about a …
This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.This is a book about a …
The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by J. B. Bury
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The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by J. B. Bury
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libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience.
Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!
With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than Jay Morton to reveal what it takes to become the best of the best.Soldier is Jay Morton’s masterclass in mindset, stra…
With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than Jay Morton to reveal what it takes to become the best of the best.Soldier is Jay Morton’s masterclass in mindset, stra…
Just after ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker for ‘Wolf Hall’, she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable hospital diary.Originally published in the London Review of Books, this diary by the acclaimed author Hilary Mantel…
Just after ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker for ‘Wolf Hall’, she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable hospital diary.Originally published in the London Review of Books, this diary by the acclaimed author Hilary Mantel…
The Sunday Times bestseller ’Are you ready, Max? If anyone’s going to help me do this, it’s you.’The heart-warming tale of a life-saving friendship.In 2006, a traumatic car accident changed Kerry Irving’s life forever. Suffering from severe neck and …
The Sunday Times bestseller ’Are you ready, Max? If anyone’s going to help me do this, it’s you.’The heart-warming tale of a life-saving friendship.In 2006, a traumatic car accident changed Kerry Irving’s life forever. Suffering from severe neck and …
From the founder of Mary’s Meals and the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Shed That Fed a Million Children, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow travels the world encountering startling acts of charity and the power of generosity.Few people in the world ar…
From the founder of Mary’s Meals and the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Shed That Fed a Million Children, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow travels the world encountering startling acts of charity and the power of generosity.Few people in the world ar…
Дмитрий Волкогонов – историк, философ, политолог и политик.
Перед вами – одна из известных книг о Ленине, которая разошлась миллионными тиражами и была переведена на десятки языков. Это полный политический портрет вождя, эволюция его взглядов.
«Ни од…
Дмитрий Волкогонов – историк, философ, политолог и политик.
Перед вами – одна из известных книг о Ленине, которая разошлась миллионными тиражами и была переведена на десятки языков. Это полный политический портрет вождя, эволюция его взглядов.
«Ни од…
THE GLOBALIST is the first in-depth biography of an international power-broker who was instrumental in shaping the global economy that we know today.PETER SUTHERLAND played a defining role in world history over the past 25 years and was arguably the …
THE GLOBALIST is the first in-depth biography of an international power-broker who was instrumental in shaping the global economy that we know today.PETER SUTHERLAND played a defining role in world history over the past 25 years and was arguably the …
From the bestselling author Charles Spencer, a brilliant insider’s history of the Spencer family.Travelling centuries through the Spencers’ family and their wide-ranging roles in Britain’s history, Charles moves from the sheep-farmers of the sixteent…
From the bestselling author Charles Spencer, a brilliant insider’s history of the Spencer family.Travelling centuries through the Spencers’ family and their wide-ranging roles in Britain’s history, Charles moves from the sheep-farmers of the sixteent…
«Письма» Михаила Врубеля к сестре Нюте (Анне Александровне) каждый раз извиняющиеся — задержал свой ответ то на неделю, то на год; благодарственные — за высланные деньги или поздравления; радостные — принялся за лепку, впервые прочитал Ибсена, ждет н…
«Письма» Михаила Врубеля к сестре Нюте (Анне Александровне) каждый раз извиняющиеся — задержал свой ответ то на неделю, то на год; благодарственные — за высланные деньги или поздравления; радостные — принялся за лепку, впервые прочитал Ибсена, ждет н…
A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018‘The definitive grime biography’ NME’A landmark genre history’ PitchforkThe year 2000. As Britain celebrates the new millennium, something is stirring in the crumb…
A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018‘The definitive grime biography’ NME’A landmark genre history’ PitchforkThe year 2000. As Britain celebrates the new millennium, something is stirring in the crumb…
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2019TIME’s #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2019A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘A must read’ Gillian FlynnOne night in D…
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2019TIME’s #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2019A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘A must read’ Gillian FlynnOne night in D…
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK‘An affectionate and revealing account … Funny, sad, real, rueful.’ The Times‘Warm, rambling and self-aware’ GuardianThe long-awaited, rambling, tender, and very funny memoir from Adam BuxtonRamble/ˈramb(ə)l/Verb1. walk for …
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK‘An affectionate and revealing account … Funny, sad, real, rueful.’ The Times‘Warm, rambling and self-aware’ GuardianThe long-awaited, rambling, tender, and very funny memoir from Adam BuxtonRamble/ˈramb(ə)l/Verb1. walk for …
Now a critically-acclaimed play at London’s The Other Palace Theatre.‘Remarkable' Observer'Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written' Daily Telegraph‘My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a c…
Now a critically-acclaimed play at London’s The Other Palace Theatre.‘Remarkable' Observer'Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written' Daily Telegraph‘My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a c…