A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood, along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new... Zobraziť viac
Penguin presents I'm Not Here to Give a Speech, the complete speeches of Nobel laureate and beloved novelist Gabriel Garc a M rquez collected and published in English for the first time.Gabriel Garc a M rquez has charmed generations of readers with... Zobraziť viac
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional A compelling mediation on the pow... Zobraziť viac
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and ho... Zobraziť viac
This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throughout time, as that would entail writing an encyclopaedia. Rather, this is a drop in the ocean, a paddle in the shallow end of sex history... Zobraziť viac
Harry Mount and John Davie unlock the wisdom of the past in this light-hearted and fascinating book, revealing how ancient Latin can help us to live better in the present... Zobraziť viac
After New York City emptied out in March 2020, Glynnis MacNicol, aged 46, unmarried with no children, spent 16 months alone in her tiny Manhattan apartment. The isolation was punishing. A year without touch. Zobraziť viac
History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters... Zobraziť viac
This elegant gift edition presents Jane Austen's playful satire, Northanger Abbey, featuring striking cover embossing and printed page-edges.Northanger Abbey is the light-hearted account of a young girl's first excursion into fashionable society. While... Zobraziť viac
The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for centuries.The history of Iceland began 1,200 years ago, when a frustrated Viking captain and his useless navigator ran aground in the middle of the North... Zobraziť viac
The great Victorian novelist's complete surviving journals - first publication of new George Eliot text. Zobraziť viac
A collection of essays and reportage by the author of the bestselling novel, "The Corrections", which explore the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the "hidden persistence of loneliness in post-modern, imperial America". Zobraziť viac
Lucy Young may only be twenty-four, but she's already exhausted. She's tired of dating, tired of being on the bottom rung at work, of having no money and living off super noodles and Rice Krispies... Zobraziť viac
Inspiring, brilliantly written, cantankerous and funny - Walden is both a very specific story about one man's attempt to live the simple life in the wilderness, and the great, founding text both for the environmental movement and the entire ... Zobraziť viac
Bret Easton Ellis is most famous for his era-defining novel American Psycho and its terrifying anti-hero, Patrick Bateman. With that book, and many times since, Ellis proved himself to be one of the world's most fearless and clear-sighted observers... Zobraziť viac
Thirty years of celebrating the comic genius of Douglas Adams...If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe? Which is exactly what the crew of... Zobraziť viac
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today – written as a letter to a friend. I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that ... Zobraziť viac
This title celebrates the thirty years of comic genius of Douglas Adams. On 12 October 1979, the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor (and Earth) was made available to humanity... Zobraziť viac
Don't leave earth without this story of the end of the world and the happy-go-lucky days that follow. Zobraziť viac
