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LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014‘A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness … A masterpiece’ Financial TimesThe 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades’s detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were p…
LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014‘A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness … A masterpiece’ Financial TimesThe 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades’s detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were p…
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…
For the first time, bestsellers Somebody Else’s Kids and The Tiger’s Child are combined to show Hayden’s extraordinary attempt to rescue the children that no one else wanted to help.In Somebody Else’s Kids, four problem children are placed in Torey H…
For the first time, bestsellers Somebody Else’s Kids and The Tiger’s Child are combined to show Hayden’s extraordinary attempt to rescue the children that no one else wanted to help.In Somebody Else’s Kids, four problem children are placed in Torey H…
Torey Hayden returns with this deeply-moving sequel to her first book, One Child (the Sunday Times bestseller). After seven years, Torey is reunited with Sheila, the disturbed 6-year-old she tried to rescue.Sheila was a deeply disturbed six-year-old …
Torey Hayden returns with this deeply-moving sequel to her first book, One Child (the Sunday Times bestseller). After seven years, Torey is reunited with Sheila, the disturbed 6-year-old she tried to rescue.Sheila was a deeply disturbed six-year-old …
Сергей Юльевич Витте – не просто виднейший государственный деятель и реформатор, но и интересный мыслитель, чьи тексты можно читать просто ради удовольствия. Книга «Мои воспоминания» – документ, описывающий эпоху и ее лица, захватывающее чтение для и…
Сергей Юльевич Витте – не просто виднейший государственный деятель и реформатор, но и интересный мыслитель, чьи тексты можно читать просто ради удовольствия. Книга «Мои воспоминания» – документ, описывающий эпоху и ее лица, захватывающее чтение для и…
Героиня была счастлива в браке. Муж – близкий человек, они поддерживали друг друга и всё делали вместе. Но дружба в отношениях со временем вытеснила страсть, и верный супруг оказался бессилен перед другим мужчиной, с которым героиня испытала искру, ж…
Героиня была счастлива в браке. Муж – близкий человек, они поддерживали друг друга и всё делали вместе. Но дружба в отношениях со временем вытеснила страсть, и верный супруг оказался бессилен перед другим мужчиной, с которым героиня испытала искру, ж…
Квентин Тарантино – один из величайших режиссеров современности. Каждый его фильм – настоящий феномен не только в кинематографе, но и в мировой культуре. «Криминальное чтиво», «Убить Билла», «Бесславные ублюдки» – с одной стороны, это разные фильмы, …
Квентин Тарантино – один из величайших режиссеров современности. Каждый его фильм – настоящий феномен не только в кинематографе, но и в мировой культуре. «Криминальное чтиво», «Убить Билла», «Бесславные ублюдки» – с одной стороны, это разные фильмы, …
Первое издание вышло в 2021 году при финансовой поддержке Российского фонда фундаментальных исследований (РФФИ). Книга продолжает публикацию рукописей крупного отечественного искусствоведа Т. П. Знамеровской (1912-1977), содержит дневниковые записи 1…
Первое издание вышло в 2021 году при финансовой поддержке Российского фонда фундаментальных исследований (РФФИ). Книга продолжает публикацию рукописей крупного отечественного искусствоведа Т. П. Знамеровской (1912-1977), содержит дневниковые записи 1…
Первая полная и подробная биография «отца атомной бомбы» Дж. Роберта Оппенгеймера – великого и харизматичного ученого, который создал оружие, способное уничтожить мир. Но, осознав последствия своей работы после трагедии Хиросимы и Нагасаки, он начал …
Первая полная и подробная биография «отца атомной бомбы» Дж. Роберта Оппенгеймера – великого и харизматичного ученого, который создал оружие, способное уничтожить мир. Но, осознав последствия своей работы после трагедии Хиросимы и Нагасаки, он начал …
полная версияВ 1960 г. после окончания Казанского госуниверситета получил назначение в Северное УГМС (г. Архангельск), где проработал 40 лет и прошёл путь от рядового авиационного инженера-синоптика авиаметстанции Сыктывкар до начальника Гидрометцентра Северного …
В 1960 г. после окончания Казанского госуниверситета получил назначение в Северное УГМС (г. Архангельск), где проработал 40 лет и прошёл путь от рядового авиационного инженера-синоптика авиаметстанции Сыктывкар до начальника Гидрометцентра Северного …
From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP.Russell is a young criminal Barrister. It’s his job to defend the people who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law – Petty thieves, career criminals, drug dealers and mu…
From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP.Russell is a young criminal Barrister. It’s his job to defend the people who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law – Petty thieves, career criminals, drug dealers and mu…
‘Based on research among thousands of unpublished documents concealed in the Communist Party archives until the fall of the regime, Lenin: Life and Legacy is a crushing indictment of the regime’s founder…’Sally Laird, ObserverIn the first fully docum…
‘Based on research among thousands of unpublished documents concealed in the Communist Party archives until the fall of the regime, Lenin: Life and Legacy is a crushing indictment of the regime’s founder…’Sally Laird, ObserverIn the first fully docum…
The Sunday Times bestseller‘Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever. Just feeling the warmth of a newborn head in your hands, that new life, there’s honestly nothing like it… I’ve since brought more than 2,200 babies into …
The Sunday Times bestseller‘Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever. Just feeling the warmth of a newborn head in your hands, that new life, there’s honestly nothing like it… I’ve since brought more than 2,200 babies into …
Originally published as Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England.Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was one of the most flamboyant and influential wome…
Originally published as Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England.Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was one of the most flamboyant and influential wome…
First published in 1996 and now available as an ebook. Please note that this edition does not include illustrations.Steven Spielberg dominated the cinema of the nineties. He is one of the screen's greatest enchanters, with a spellbinding capacity – a…
First published in 1996 and now available as an ebook. Please note that this edition does not include illustrations.Steven Spielberg dominated the cinema of the nineties. He is one of the screen's greatest enchanters, with a spellbinding capacity – a…
A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure – a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960sCondemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charrière (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. Forty-two days after his arrival h…
A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure – a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960sCondemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charrière (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. Forty-two days after his arrival h…
Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the Caudillo of Spain from the Nationalists' brutal, Fascist-sponsored victory over the Republican government in the Spanish Civil War until his quiet death in 1975, is the subject of this book.The biography presents a…
Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the Caudillo of Spain from the Nationalists' brutal, Fascist-sponsored victory over the Republican government in the Spanish Civil War until his quiet death in 1975, is the subject of this book.The biography presents a…
First published in 1971, Vincent Cronin’s classic biography of Napoleon is now available as an ebook for the first time.‘I wanted to find a Napoleon I could picture as a living, breathing man.’Vincent Cronin superbly realises his objectives in this, …
First published in 1971, Vincent Cronin’s classic biography of Napoleon is now available as an ebook for the first time.‘I wanted to find a Napoleon I could picture as a living, breathing man.’Vincent Cronin superbly realises his objectives in this, …
This edition does not include illustrations.A major biography of the most modern and the most underrated of English Literature's Great Victorians.Henry James called Robert Browning (1812–89) 'a tremendous and incomparable modern', and the immediacy a…
This edition does not include illustrations.A major biography of the most modern and the most underrated of English Literature's Great Victorians.Henry James called Robert Browning (1812–89) 'a tremendous and incomparable modern', and the immediacy a…
Note that due to the limitations of some ereading devices not all diacritical marks can be shown.A major biography of one of literature’s most romantic and enigmatic figures, published in hardback to great acclaim: ‘one of the great biographies of re…
Note that due to the limitations of some ereading devices not all diacritical marks can be shown.A major biography of one of literature’s most romantic and enigmatic figures, published in hardback to great acclaim: ‘one of the great biographies of re…