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Gilchrist on Blake: The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist
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LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDPart of a radical series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Gilchrist’s ‘The Life of William Blake’ is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividl…
LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDPart of a radical series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Gilchrist’s ‘The Life of William Blake’ is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividl…
От первого лица
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Выдающийся украинский, советский поэт, писатель, публицист, сценарист, журналист, редактор и общественный деятель Виталий Коротич размышляет о времени и переломных событиях, вспоминает друзей и единомышленников.
Выдающийся украинский, советский поэт, писатель, публицист, сценарист, журналист, редактор и общественный деятель Виталий Коротич размышляет о времени и переломных событиях, вспоминает друзей и единомышленников.
The Man in the White Suit: The Stig, Le Mans, The Fast Lane and Me
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The Stig gets his kit off and reveals how he came to be Top Gear's iconic racing driver and so much more – including what it's like to thrash an Aston Martin DBS, train for the Army and face the terror of Jeremy Clarkson's underwear…When the Black St…
The Stig gets his kit off and reveals how he came to be Top Gear's iconic racing driver and so much more – including what it's like to thrash an Aston Martin DBS, train for the Army and face the terror of Jeremy Clarkson's underwear…When the Black St…
The Complete Helen Forrester 4-Book Memoir: Twopence to Cross the Mersey, Liverpool Miss, By the Waters of Liverpool, Lime Street at Two
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The complete four-volume collection of classic memoir recounting a poverty-stricken childhood in 1930s Liverpool that started with Twopence To Cross the Mersey.Twopence To Cross The Mersey – When Helen Forrester’s father went bankrupt in 1930 she and…
The complete four-volume collection of classic memoir recounting a poverty-stricken childhood in 1930s Liverpool that started with Twopence To Cross the Mersey.Twopence To Cross The Mersey – When Helen Forrester’s father went bankrupt in 1930 she and…
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Memoir
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An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna’s intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood – of a…
An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna’s intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood – of a…
The Secret Life of a Submissive
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSarah K has a secret.By day she’s a writer and level-headed single mother; by night she’s a submissive, living a real-life Fifty Shades of Grey that is thrilling beyond her wildest dreams.But this is no fantasy: Sarah’s sto…
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSarah K has a secret.By day she’s a writer and level-headed single mother; by night she’s a submissive, living a real-life Fifty Shades of Grey that is thrilling beyond her wildest dreams.But this is no fantasy: Sarah’s sto…
The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour
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The number one bestselling memoir of one of New Labour’s three founding architects, now with a revealing new chapter updating this e-book edition.Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. ‘The Third Man’ is his story…
The number one bestselling memoir of one of New Labour’s three founding architects, now with a revealing new chapter updating this e-book edition.Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. ‘The Third Man’ is his story…
The Child Bride
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Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family.When 14 -year-old Zeena begs to be taken into care with a non-Asian family, she is clearly petrified. But of what…
Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family.When 14 -year-old Zeena begs to be taken into care with a non-Asian family, she is clearly petrified. But of what…
The Speckled People
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‘This is the most gripping book I've read in ages … It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.’ Roddy DoyleThe childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a sometimes…
‘This is the most gripping book I've read in ages … It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.’ Roddy DoyleThe childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a sometimes…
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
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Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA.Drawing on revelatory ne…
Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA.Drawing on revelatory ne…
The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach
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History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach and yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest Queen consort Britain ever had’.The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband George II, Carol…
History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach and yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest Queen consort Britain ever had’.The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband George II, Carol…
Знаменитые и великие скрипачи-виртуозы XX века
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Известный скрипач Артур Штильман, игравший много лет в оркестре Большого театра в Москве и в оркестре Метрополитен Опера в Нью-Йорке, описал свою захватывающе интересную жизнь и встречи с великими музыкантами в книгах воспоминаний, вышедших в издател…
Известный скрипач Артур Штильман, игравший много лет в оркестре Большого театра в Москве и в оркестре Метрополитен Опера в Нью-Йорке, описал свою захватывающе интересную жизнь и встречи с великими музыкантами в книгах воспоминаний, вышедших в издател…
По мостовой моей души
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«Маяковский идет – и по новым кварталам Москвы, и по старому Парижу, по всей нашей планете идет с „заготовками“ – не новых рифм, а новых дум и чувств…» – писал Илья Эренбург. За свою жизнь Владимир Маяковский проехал сто пятьдесят тысяч километров, д…
«Маяковский идет – и по новым кварталам Москвы, и по старому Парижу, по всей нашей планете идет с „заготовками“ – не новых рифм, а новых дум и чувств…» – писал Илья Эренбург. За свою жизнь Владимир Маяковский проехал сто пятьдесят тысяч километров, д…
Seeing Red
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The most high-profile referee this country has ever seen, the controversial and opinionated Graham Poll exposes the myth that referees are the game’s silent men, and opens the lid on the shocking and often unbelievable world of football that few outs…
The most high-profile referee this country has ever seen, the controversial and opinionated Graham Poll exposes the myth that referees are the game’s silent men, and opens the lid on the shocking and often unbelievable world of football that few outs…
The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography
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The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic.‘Geographie and Chronologie I may call the Sunne and the Moone, the right eye and the left, of all history.’In ‘The World of Gerard Mercato…
The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic.‘Geographie and Chronologie I may call the Sunne and the Moone, the right eye and the left, of all history.’In ‘The World of Gerard Mercato…
The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood
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A radical look at Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain’s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies…
A radical look at Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain’s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies…
Русские горизонты. Сборник рассказов, новелл, очерков и эссе
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Современный многоязычный и поликультурный мир и его жительница, открывающая для себя простые истины в собственном творческо-исследовательском пути от юной читательницы до писателя-международника, от прочтения — интерпретации первой авторской книги — …
Современный многоязычный и поликультурный мир и его жительница, открывающая для себя простые истины в собственном творческо-исследовательском пути от юной читательницы до писателя-международника, от прочтения — интерпретации первой авторской книги — …
My Soul Cries
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”She is Emily, Emily Marchionne: my life and my joy” in the book there are two interwoven stories between autobiography and romantic and dramatic tale. With an important message. In the first story we find Simone De Rosi, a sensitive guy, a dreamer w…
”She is Emily, Emily Marchionne: my life and my joy” in the book there are two interwoven stories between autobiography and romantic and dramatic tale. With an important message. In the first story we find Simone De Rosi, a sensitive guy, a dreamer w…
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
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Internationally bestselling author of The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz gives us a mystical tour of his life and calling as a “Nagual” in this gripping spiritual and autobiographical teaching novel.Internationally bestselling author Don Miguel Rui…
Internationally bestselling author of The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz gives us a mystical tour of his life and calling as a “Nagual” in this gripping spiritual and autobiographical teaching novel.Internationally bestselling author Don Miguel Rui…
Все генералы Сталина. Том 5
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Книга представляет собой 5 том военного биографического справочника в 50 томах. В ней представлены подробные биографические справки о военных должностях, званиях и наградах с указанием числа, месяца, года, составленные на основе послужных карт, списк…
Книга представляет собой 5 том военного биографического справочника в 50 томах. В ней представлены подробные биографические справки о военных должностях, званиях и наградах с указанием числа, месяца, года, составленные на основе послужных карт, списк…

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