Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco... Zobraziť viac
Henry Chadwick is one of the foremost authorities on Early Christianity... Zobraziť viac
In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. Call it predestiny... Zobraziť viac
BRITAIN'S GREATEST CLIMBER. 'He is the David Attenborough of mountaineering . . . Bonington's most personal memoir yet.' The Times. 'This is a compelling tale of fortitude and endurance.' - The Sunday Times'He is the icon of British climbing.' The... Zobraziť viac
A "Great Read" for summer, repackaged with a new cover and blurb. Zobraziť viac
Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to... Zobraziť viac
There is a huge interest in Dawin and evolution, and the developments of his ideas are still controversial... Zobraziť viac
The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells. Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the... Zobraziť viac
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791) is an unfinished memoir by Benjamin Franklin. Addressing the work to his son William, Franklin intended to provide a private account of his life and accomplishments. Published after his death, however, The... Zobraziť viac
The follow up to My Family and Other Animals and the second book in The Corfu Trilogy, the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells. In this second collection of tales concerning the Durrell family on the island of Corfu,... Zobraziť viac
This newly translated selection of 36 of the best decadent tales from the French fin-de-siecle brings together some the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. Hilarious and horrifying, these extraordinary, corrosive... Zobraziť viac
More outrageous than Julia Phillip's 'You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again', more star-studded than Robert Evans's 'The Kid Stays in the Picture', this is the soul-baring memoir of the record industry's most outspoken - and self-destructive -... Zobraziť viac
‘Just when the medical profession had given up on me and I on it, just when I seemed to be walled up in a life sentence of chronic pain, someone proposed a bizarre way out: sit still, they said, and breathe...&rsquo... Zobraziť viac
A player for fifteen years. A manager for thirty. Leicester City’s victory was more – much more – than just a 'miracle'. It was Claudio Ranieri.This is the inside story of the rise and rise of the butcher’s son from Rome, whose... Zobraziť viac
After backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald decided that she hated this land of chaos and contradiction with a passion, and when an airport beggar read her palm and insisted she would come back one day - and for love - she vowed... Zobraziť viac
A new collection of personal essays, both surprising and funny, from the bestselling American writer. Subjects include hilarious childhood dramas, family life and surreal encounters. "Seriously addictive stuff" "The Times" Zobraziť viac
Jimi Hendrix in his own words. An intimate, posthumous memoir from an icon of rock 'n' roll. He wrote prolifically throughout his life, and his fragmentary trove has been woven together into a continuous narrative portrait. Zobraziť viac
Translated by Walter Shewring with an Introduction by G. S. Kirk This prose translation of the Odyssey is so successful that it has taken its place as one of the few really outstanding versions of Homer`s famous epic poem. Walter Shewring has with rare... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest... Zobraziť viac
`My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings.` For half a century from its publication in 1901 Up from Slavery was the best known book written by an African American. The life of ex-slave Booker... Zobraziť viac
