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Andrea Corr’s Barefoot Pilgrimage is a compelling and honest memoir.In part, an exercise in coming to terms with and making sense of life and mortalit…

‘If I had to lose my record to anyone, I couldn’t be happier that it was Jonathan. Family connections aside, there is nobody more talented, more deter…

Лидия Владимировна Савельева (1937–2021) – прапраправнучка Александра Сергеевича Пушкина, доктор филологических наук. В мемуарах она рассказывает о де…

Crucible of Terror recounts in searing detail Liebster?s torturous journey through five Nazi concentration camps, including the notorious Auschwitz. I…

THE SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR Daily MailAs a young boy of eight, Jonny Bairstow was dealt a cruel blow. His father David ‘Bluey’ Bairstow, the combative…

Шесть уникальных женщин. Абсолютно разных. Каждая – целый мир, о каждой можно написать отдельную книгу. Зачем было объединять их под одной обложкой? Г…

‘Grant whips up moments of intense emotion and life with the briefest of words and images. Throughout it all, food is the life source, comfort, energi…

History of Friedrich II of Prussia – Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle <br/> libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made av…

WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZEThe fascinating history of Christopher Columbus’s illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father’s flam…

В брошюре рассказывается о пяти математиках – А. И. Бунимовиче, И. А. Вайнштейне, С. В. Фомине, Б. В. Шабате и Г. Е. Шилове, – родившихся в 1917 году,…

From the author of the ever-popular Flashman novels, a collection of film-world reminiscences and trenchant thoughts on Cool Britannia, New Labour and…

‘Joan Didion at a startup’ Rebecca Solnit‘Impossibly pleasurable’ Jia Tolentino‘This is essential reading’ StylistAt twenty-five years old, Anna Wiene…

‘I’m so sorry, Casey,’ my link worker John said, sounding weary. ‘I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need som…

‘There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War’ John KeeganLife and death in Nine Sect…

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.P…

Постимпрессионизм – это условное собирательное название объединенных направлений в европейской живописи конца XIX–начала XX в., основоположниками кото…

Роман о жестоких событиях моего детства, в которой было насилие, жестокие избиения и кромешный ад. Содержит нецензурную брань.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one …

Он взял Казань и Астрахань, создал современное Государство Российское, а его вычеркнул из проекта памятника «Тысячелетие России» император Александр I…

Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences – there is simply no one in the …

Диана Арбенина, пожалуй, самая загадочная женщина на нашей сцене. Тысячи фанатов, которые горячо преданы ей много лет, ждут этой книги очень давно. Эт…

Part 3 of 3Just when Casey thinks her foster care duties are done, she’s asked to look after Sam, a troubled nine-year-old with a violent streak who d…

Путеводитель знакомит читателя с Петербургом Достоевского: историческими районами города, где с 1837 по 1881 год жил писатель и где проживали герои по…

The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien.In the 25 years since Tolkien’s death in Sept…

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.…

«Мне 62 года, я родился в Тифлисе в 1849 году. Отец мой, Юлий Федорович Витте, был директором департамента государственных имуществ на Кавказе. Мать м…

A moving collection of 6 short stories – Helpless, A Small Boy’s Cry, Two More Sleeps, Unexpected, Just a Boy and At Risk – previously available as in…

A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass, now with an exclusive preview of Cathy’s inspiring new title, Please…

From the bestselling author Charles Spencer, a brilliant insider’s history of the Spencer family.Travelling centuries through the Spencers’ family and…

«Наглость – второе счастье» – так отзываются многие, кто знакомится с Дэвидом Старком и слушает его рассказы впервые. Или все же речь о безусловном та…

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that is both uniquely and heartbreakingly her story and a deeply…

A small town’s struggle for freedom against apartheid‘They call her Nobantu. I call her mother.’Anelia Schutte grew up in Knysna – a beautiful town on…

‘Extraordinary’ Daily MailAs seen on BBC BreakfastHorrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that ha…

Ксения Ольхова и её старшая сестра Лидия Туровская — единственные участницы Варшавского восстания, живущие сегодня на территории бывшего СССР. После п…

«Наше детство было переполнено важнейшими делами. Сдать бутылки, что скопились в доме, и заработать на мороженое. Сбегать за хлебом, а по дороге откус…

The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world's greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic for…

‘A brilliant vivid and intimate new memoir’ The Daily Mail’For over a decade Kate Fall was the most influential woman in British politics.’ Alice Thom…

SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN – Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick …

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…

The rags-to-riches story of one of the world’s greatest dancers, from his difficult beginnings living in poverty in the backstreets of Cuba to his ast…

Stuart just wanted his father to love him, but he was made to believe he was too naughty to be loved. Finally David Howarth was sent to prison for abu…

It’s the story where it all started: A homestead for generations, with 1000 years of life and struggles to survive, as well as moments of happiness. I…

Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with a drug addiction and a cleft palate.Addicted to dru…

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…

Often derided as weak-willed and insecure, Queen Anne was in fact one of Britain’s most remarkable monarchs. In many ways a stolid, conventional woman…