The Sunday Times number 1 bestseller. Marcus Butler's irreverent YouTube channel has long combined laughs and comedy sketches with thoughts on more serious issues. What sets him apart from the ... Zobraziť viac
In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime ministers... Zobraziť viac
After her husband died of cancer, 57-year-old Rosie set off to run around the world, raising money in memory of the man she loved. Followed by wolves, knocked down by a bus, confronted by bears... Zobraziť viac
The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn't fashion it was a stolen book. She spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dumpster diving. By twenty-two, she had resigned herself to employment, but was still broke, ... Zobraziť viac
Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, only entering politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall... Zobraziť viac
A Manchester lad from Irish Traveller stock, born three months premature and weighing just a pound at birth, Tyson (named after his father's boxing hero) grew up to become one of the most unlikely heavyweight champions in history... Zobraziť viac
In 1914 Vera Brittain was twenty, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of a whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era... Zobraziť viac
Reggie Nelson had a tough childhood growing up on a council estate in east London. His father suddenly died and his mother had to work multiple jobs just to get by. But when she had to collect Reggie from a cell where he, at only 12, was being held for... Zobraziť viac
The Honeymoon is not a book about grief. There is grief in it, a whole truckload of grief, but it will not offer advice. Im twenty-eight, what do I know? Instead, it will be primarily the story of my six weeks in Europe on my honeymoon alone, told... Zobraziť viac
The young Walter Miller was a product of his time. Growing up Black in the Jim Crow American South, he was in trouble with the police before his fourteenth birthday. And, like so many young Black men, once he'd landed in the criminal justice system... Zobraziť viac
Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag". In the summer she... Zobraziť viac
Kniha vzpomínek Dagmar Šimkové vychází již po deváté. Strhující vzpomínky ženy, která se postavila komunistickému režimu a za svou statečnost zaplatila patnácti lety ve vězení. V 50. letech byla vězněna společně s... Zobraziť viac
In this memoir of loss, acclaimed writer and comedian Rob Delaney grapples with the fragile miracle of life, the mysteries of death, and the question of purpose for those left behind... Zobraziť viac
Tara Westoverová poprvé vkročila do školní třídy, když jí bylo sedmnáct. K lékaři poprvé zašla ještě o několik let později. Vyrůstala na samotě v idažských horách, v mormonské... Zobraziť viac
At times moving and often laugh-out-loud funny, The Wonderful World of James Herriot will delight fans old and new... Zobraziť viac
The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir’s celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figure... Zobraziť viac
Each moment in Auschwitz was hell on earth. It was also my best classroom. Subjected to loss, torture, starvation and the constant threat of death, I discovered tools for survival and freedom that I continue to use every day... Zobraziť viac
He was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him. During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world... Zobraziť viac
'Sometimes fate deals up a wild card. There's a lot to be said for one of these wild cards and from what I've learned over the fifty or so years of our friendship, Chris is a card from the unexpected deck' - from the foreword by Debbie HarryMusician,... Zobraziť viac
In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together... Zobraziť viac
