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
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic account of life on the streets To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found... Zobraziť viac
Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell. In 1928 the young George Orwell arrived in Paris, a city known as a thriving art scene and home to some of literature's most esteemed figures... Zobraziť viac
Rodinné paměti české šlechtičny z let 1657-1677 a ukázky z její knihy kuchařských, lékařských a veterinárních receptů... Zobraziť viac
Alexander the Great’s story often reads like fiction: son to a snake-loving mother and a battle-scarred father; tutored by Aristotle; a youth from the periphery of the Greek world who took part in... Zobraziť viac
Na konci 50. let podnikl Jan Werich, spolu s dcerou Janou, výlet do Itálie a své zážitky z cesty pak literárně zpracoval. Zobraziť viac
One of the most moving accounts of being a boy ever written, My Childhood is a both wonderful and harrowing memoir - and one of the great works of Russian literature... Zobraziť viac
Crikey, the world according to Clarkson's been a funny old place of late... For a while, Jeremy could be found in his normal position as the tallest man on British television but, more recently, he appears to have been usurped by a pretend elephant... Zobraziť viac
From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station – what it’s like out there and what it’s like now, back here. Enter Scott Kelly's fascinating world and dare to think of your own a little differently... Zobraziť viac
In 1926 de Saint-Exupéry began flying for the pioneering airline Latécoère - later known as Aéropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes... Zobraziť viac
From the man behind the infamous @GSElevator Twitter account, true stories from the wild world of international finance. Over the past three years, the notorious @GSElevator Twitter feed has offered a hilarious, ... Zobraziť viac
As the youngest student to be admitted to Bergen's prestigious Writing Academy, Karl Ove arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations. Soon though, he is stripped of his youthful illusions. His writing is revealed to be puerile and ... Zobraziť viac
The fourth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small Finally home from London after his wartime service in the RAF, James Herriot is settling back into life as a country vet... Zobraziť viac
Candid, moving, exhilarating, uplifting and frequently humorous, the words Oprah shares in What I Know For Sure shimmer with the sort of truth that readers will turn to again and again... Zobraziť viac
Dark, fierce and raw, Notes on Heartbreak is a love story told in reverse, starting with a devastating break-up... Zobraziť viac
In a business where dreams are often short-lived, Sir Tom Jones has maintained his sensational career across six decades... Zobraziť viac
Scorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which Tété-Michel grew up in 1950s Togo, West Africa. When he discovered a book on Greenland as a teen, this distant land became an instant obsession... Zobraziť viac
Matar was nineteen years old when his father was kidnapped. In the year following he found himself turning to art, particularly the great paintings of the Sienese School. They became a refuge and a way to think about the world outside... Zobraziť viac
Paul Poiret (1879–1944) led the fashion world in the first decades of the 20th century. His autobiography tells the story of the meteoric rise of a draper’s son to the “King of Fashion.” From his humble Parisian childhood, ... Zobraziť viac
