A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile - originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead - and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin and he is about to make history Zobraziť viac
The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality... Zobraziť viac
In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his... Zobraziť viac
Imperium is a classic of reportage and a literary masterwork by one of the great writers and witnesses of the twentieth century. It is the story of an empire... Zobraziť viac
You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate – a human or an algorithm? An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence... Zobraziť viac
Berlínsky múr, Checkpoint Charlie, Opera, Brandeburská brána a mnohé ďalšie budovy, atrakcie a figúrky už netrpezlivo čakajú na vás, vašich blízkych a priateľov. Čas strávený s rodinou alebo priateľmi pri vyfarbovaní tohto umeleckého diela bude vašim... Zobraziť viac
Now with a new preface to mark the ten year anniversary of publication, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly... Zobraziť viac
An incredible memoir from one of the world’s most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant... Zobraziť viac
Written by Malala for her peers, this is the girl behind the Nobel Prize-winning icon. Film tie-in edition with He Named me Malala, released 6th November, which tells Malala's story from Nobel Peace Prize to netball courts... Zobraziť viac
<i>What If</i>... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science... Zobraziť viac
On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that helped change the world. For months Kantor and Twohey had been having confidential discussions with top actresses, former Weinstein employees ... Zobraziť viac
Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present... Zobraziť viac
The greatest cover-ups and unsolved mysteries in the world of celebrity... Zobraziť viac
For months, the omens had pointed in one scarcely believable direction: Russia was about to invade Ukraine. And yet, the world was stunned by the epochal scale... Zobraziť viac
In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars... Zobraziť viac
In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from official narratives... Zobraziť viac
'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit 'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino 'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing... Zobraziť viac
Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich... Zobraziť viac
To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the wall and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five ... Zobraziť viac
On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, ... Zobraziť viac
