A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the international bestselling author of An American Marriage... Zobraziť viac
An award-winning debut that vividly reimagines Uganda’s troubled history through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan... Zobraziť viac
In Ancient Rome all the best stories have one thing in common – murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic, Caligula was butchered in the theatre, Claudius was poisoned at dinner... Zobraziť viac
Why do we give a damn about strangers? Altruism is unique to the human species. It is also one of the great evolutionary puzzles, and we may be on the brink of solving it... Zobraziť viac
It's 1961 and the white heat of the Space Race is making the Cold War even colder.The age of global surveillance dawns. Secret agent Richard Knox has been hung out to dry by someone in MI5 and he needs to find the traitor in their midst... Zobraziť viac
From the New York Times and internationally bestselling authors of The Illuminae Files comes a new science fiction epic... Zobraziť viac
In this ground-breaking history, Sarah Gristwood reveals the way courtly love made and marred the Tudor dynasty. From Henry VIII declaring himself as the ‘loyal and most assured servant’ of Anne Boleyn to... Zobraziť viac
Quantum physics is not mystifying. The implications are mind-bending, and not yet fully understood, but this revolutionary theory is truly illuminating. It stands as the best explanation of the fundamental nature of our world... Zobraziť viac
Russian historian Abraham Ascher offers a skillful blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this concise... Zobraziť viac
Through a mixture of memoir, opinion and investigative journalism, Clementine Ford exposes just how unequal the world continues to be for women. An incendiary debut taking the world by storm, ... Zobraziť viac
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. Until one day they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is... Zobraziť viac
Winner of the Georg Dehio Book Prize 2018The Second World War is drawing to a close, but the world is far from safe. Left to fend for themselves, women and children are forced out of their homes in East Prussia to make way for the advancing victors... Zobraziť viac
How do you predict something that has never happened before? There's a useful calculation being employed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors all over the world, and it predicts that the human species will become extinct in 760 years... Zobraziť viac
To imagine - to see that which is not there - is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the pictures in our minds.. Zobraziť viac
Graham Greene saw the Castros rise; Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our Man in Havana, plied his trade, foreign correspondent Rainsford reports on Fidel's reshaping of a nation, ... Zobraziť viac
Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen - the writer never spoke of them. Why did he choose not to publish them along with the others? ... Zobraziť viac
In the heady days after 1945, the authority of the United States was unrivalled and, with the founding of the UN, a new era of international co-operation seemed to have begun. But seventy-five years later, its influence has already diminished... Zobraziť viac
From the number of cells in our bodies to the size of the universe, big numbers have more to do with the 'real world' than you might suspect... Zobraziť viac
Tess is the 22-year-old narrator of this stunning first novel. Moving to New York, a place at the centre of the universe, from a place that feels like ‘nowhere to live’, she lands a job at a renowned Union Square restaurant and begins ... Zobraziť viac
The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice... Zobraziť viac
