Subtitled, "The Great & Infamous Whore". Paperback edition of Weir's full-scale biography of Anne Boleyn's sister, who was mistress to both her brother-in-law Henry VIII and Francois I of France. Weir contends that Mary was entirely undeserving of her... Zobraziť viac
The Power Broker tells the story of Robert Moses, the single most powerful man in New York for almost half a century and the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever once being elected to office, ... Zobraziť viac
The first definitive biography of basketball legend LeBron James, by the acclaimed author of Tiger Woods.LeBron is unquestionably the greatest basketball player of the 21st century. Off the court, LeBron's political activism, outspoken stance on racism... Zobraziť viac
INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024Good Housekeeping Travel Book of the MonthA LoveReading Best Book of 2024Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Travel Books 2024'Travel at its best - life enhancing' Bear Grylls'Ash is a great storyteller, whose book... Zobraziť viac
Booker T. Washington's famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington's rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation's most prominent Black educator and first president of Tuskegee University. Zobraziť viac
This is the Twentieth Anniversary Edition. As a young boy, growing up in the Home Counties and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby had little sense of home. Then his dad took him to Highbury... Zobraziť viac
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships – or, as they would say, because of them – they are Zobraziť viac
In his Enquiry Edmund Burke overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics and replaced metaphysics with psychology. His revolutions in method and sensibility influenced later philosophers and literary and artistic movements from the Gothic novel to... Zobraziť viac
Now in paperback, this is a memoir from the author and critic David Lodge which charts his life from his birth in 1935 to the publication of his breakthrough book, "Changing Places", in 1975. Charts his childhood and youth, his time doing National... Zobraziť viac
A year of reading from home, by one of Britain's most distinguished authors... Zobraziť viac
Svatý Vojtěch (Adalbert), druhý pražský biskup, pocházející z rodu Slavníkovců, je významnou postavou nejen českých, ale i evropských dějin. Legenda, kterou napsal Bruno z Querfurtu, Vojtěchův mladší současník a arcibiskup, který... Zobraziť viac
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror... Zobraziť viac
A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa`s pioneering... Zobraziť viac
Sarah Symmonss fascinating account places Goya within the context of his Spanish heritage, traces the immense in?uence of his work throughout Europe and considers the continued relevance of his art in the twentieth century. Drawings, oil and fresco... Zobraziť viac
Edited by Roger Lonsdale and John Mullan... Zobraziť viac
Century after century, the essence of Venice is unchanging. It is a place of contradictions, equal parts glamour and chaos. As a young man, Javier Marías made the city his home; since then he has left and returned many times, drawn back to its... Zobraziť viac
Demosthenes was one of the greatest of the classic Athenian orators. He wrote for the courts in public and private cases and in major political trials and is a major source for the history of Athens` struggle against Macedon. This is the widest... Zobraziť viac
Home to the notorious `Blue Book`, which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans`s infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous in the world. But the New Orleans underworld... Zobraziť viac
In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Years later he would be beatified. Evelyn Waugh\'s compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to... Zobraziť viac
An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. Brings the news, intrigue and flavour of the times together with wonderful detail about how Shakespeare worked as... Zobraziť viac
