From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, Dying of Politeness is the candid, surprising tale of her journey from her epically polite childhood to the roles that put her in the spotlight and gave her the strength to become... Zobraziť viac
Selma Blair has played many archetypal roles: gullible ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Fire-starter in Hellboy.Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Face of Chanel. Cover model... Zobraziť viac
The Charente: roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun. The baker does his rounds in his battered little white van with a hundred warm baguettes in the back... Zobraziť viac
The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler... Zobraziť viac
Johan Cruyff is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in football history. Throughout his playing career, he was synonymous with Total Football, a style of play in which every player could play in any position on the pitch... Zobraziť viac
Naoki Higashida met international success with THE REASON I JUMP, a revelatory account of life as a thirteen-year-old with non-verbal autism. Now he offers an equally illuminating insight into autism from his perspective as a young adult... Zobraziť viac
In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school... Zobraziť viac
In 2008, twenty-year-old Jonny Benjamin stood on Waterloo Bridge, about to jump. A stranger saw his distress and stopped to talk with him – a decision that saved Jonny's life. Fast forward to 2014 and Jonny, together ... Zobraziť viac
Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one of the most important movements in rock history. Seeking a sense of home and identity, ... Zobraziť viac
To young James Herriot, fresh out of veterinary college, Yorkshire appears to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But even life in the sleepy village of Darrowby has its challenges... Zobraziť viac
Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is the lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya that launched a million tourist trails, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range... Zobraziť viac
Henry Thoreau is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book... Zobraziť viac
Star of stage and screen. Tireless supporter of charity. Marathon runner. Political campaigner. Fashion icon. Human. There is no one quite like Eddie Izzard. This is the story of how he broke through. His relentless optimism has led him to always ... Zobraziť viac
If you think you know the news, think again. In this behind-the-scenes, no holds barred account of life on Newsnight in the seconds before, during and after going on air, Emily Maitlis discloses the wrangling, bust-ups, blow-ups, pleading... Zobraziť viac
Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly tormented by nightmarish visions of the... Zobraziť viac
For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones... Zobraziť viac
An intimate and moving account of modern farming and our changing relationship with the land... Zobraziť viac
Michal Liščák (1935) sa narodil v Oščadnici na Kysuciach, mal osem súrodencov. Vychodil päť ľudových tried a štyri meštianky. Po smrti otca nemal financie na ďalšie štúdiá. V roku 1950 nastúpil do Škodových závodov Dubnica nad Váhom, kde sa vyučil za... Zobraziť viac
Zeď, kterou to neskončilo... Ve městě Oskara Schindlera a slávy Schindlerova seznamu, kde se po staletí setkávali političtí a náboženští představitelé, se Jane a Dan seznamují v docela obyčejné školní třídě... Zobraziť viac
Autor, dlouholetý redaktor časopisu Montana, zahynul v roce 2001 při lyžování v Alpách. Texty, které posílal do Montany, jsou vlastně jen doplňkem jeho úvah o horolezectví, lezení, o jeho smyslu a možnostech chápání. Zobraziť viac
