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‘Extraordinary. Vivid, irreverent, heartbreaking.’ NIGEL SLATER‘So funny and so delicious. I could eat it.’ DAWN O’PORTER‘Delicious.’ THE OBSERVERFrom Frazzles to Foie Gras: a memoir of wanting m…

August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne.In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet unde…

Jackson is aggressive, confrontational and often volatile. His mother, Kayla, is crippled with grief after tragically losing her husband and eldest son. Struggling to cope, she puts Jackson into …

THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this’ BILL BRYSON’A brilliant read … Game of Thrones but in the real world’ ANTHONY HOROWITZPI…

Innocent can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 3Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 1…

Bella Bathurst’s epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds.‘Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not f…

In horse racing greatness is defined by speed. Being the second fastest counts for little. You have to win. And win. And keep winning until every challenger of your generation is put to the sword…

Сложно переоценить вклад, который внесли британские суфражистки начала XX века в борьбу за права женщин во всем мире. Эммелин Панкхёрст, героиня этой книги, стояла у истоков феминизма и вдохновля…

В книге излагаются основные этапы жизни и творчества академика РАМН, РАН Олега Прокопьевича Щепина. С 1988 по 2013 год он был директором Национального НИИ общественного здоровья РАМН им. Н. А. Се…

Ever since I left the land that was my home, wherever I have traveled and lived, I have been asked the same question: How could a Hitler happen, in the land of poets and scientists and thinkers, …

What is the role of fate in our lives?Why should we avoid repeating patterns?And how can we identify our purpose?In What It Means To Be Human, former Oxford don Robert Rowland Smith draws on his …

Выдающийся педагог, пианист, заслуженный деятель искусств России, профессор, организатор музыкального образования В. Г. Айресов – ярчайший представитель отечественной фортепианной школы. В моногр…

Дорогой читатель! Раньше я работала в школе. И для меня было важно, чтобы мои ученики не воспринимали писателей в образе хрестоматийных портретов на стене кабинета литературы. Только живой челове…

Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history‘Wonderfully researched and beautifully written’ Phi…

Многотомный справочник "Командиры бригад Красной Армии" представляет биографии командиров артиллерийских, артиллерийских бригад ПТО, бригад морской пехоты, бригад моряков, воздушно-десантных, гор…

‘The Muslim Mother Teresa’ Huffington PostImprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all – for the women of Africa.Edna saw first-hand how poor healthcare, lack of educati…

“You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you’ve had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show busines…

Can I Let You Go? is the true story of Faye, a wonderful young woman who may never be able to parent her unborn child.Faye is 24, pregnant, and has learning difficulties as a result of her mother…

SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN – Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop’s lively, action-packed biography exam…

In this unique book, one of football’s greatest cult players reflects on the travails of the sport and draws upon his own experience to offer an honest assessment on one of its final remaining ta…