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Книга представляет собой воспоминания, написанные выдающимся гитаристом современности. Читатель узнает много интересного о жизни Петра Полухина в Советском Союзе и за рубежом.

A biography of Borges, by his translator.Jorge Luis Borges, known as Georgie to his friends, married Elsa Astete Millán in 1967. Borges was sixty-eight years old at the time of the wedding; Elsa,…

A brilliant, highly spirited memoir of Sidney Sheldon's early life that provides as compulsively readable and racy a narrative as any of his bestselling novels.Growing up in 1930s America, the yo…

Эта книга — отчет о генеалогическом исследовании. В ней не будет ссылок на архивные документы. Они благополучно хранятся на полках семейного архива. Но именно материалы архивов, писем и воспомина…

‘Men’s lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially – as lawyer and politician. Woman’s function is to pour oil on the wounds – to heal the bruises of spi…

WINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION, THE 2013 DUFF COOPER PRIZE, THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2014 AND THE 2013 COSTA BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE…

Who was the real Jane Austen? A spinster who sat in a vicarage confining her novels to the small canvas of village life? Or a woman who knew the turbulent world around her and who took the bold d…

Why won’t he ever let you use his phone? Why is he always going on about that girl from work? Is he cheating on you?Why won’t he ever let you use his phone? Why is he always going on about that g…

The definitive guide to the origin of J.R.R. Tolkien’s books, from The Hobbit to The History of Middle-earth series – includes unpublished Tolkien extracts and poetry.The Road to Middle-Earth is …

To mark the 20th anniversary of Kenneth Williams’ death, a beautiful coffee table book celebrating his life, including never-before-seen photographs, sketches and personal testimony from Williams…

It’s 1983 and best friends Vicky and Lucy swear that they will always be there for each other, that they’ll never let anyone come between them. But fast forward 4 years and life on the Canterbury…

Previously published as My Uncle Charlie.If you lived on the notorious Canterbury Estate in the ‘40s and ‘50s, then you knew there was one man you did not want to cross: Charlie Hudson.A solitary…

Still Got It, Never Lost It! tells the story of Louie Spence, star of Pineapple Dance Studios and ruthless judge on Dancing on Ice.‘I did everything my sisters did, that’s how my dancing days sta…

В книге публикуются письма Василия Абгаровича Катаняна и Лили Юрьевны Брик, написанные в годы Великой Отечественной войны и адресованные родным В. А. Катаняна. Этот период их жизни мало известен …

В настоящую книгу, которая представляет собой собрание сочинений выдающегося российского и польского цивилиста и процессуалиста Е.В. Васьковского, включена его фундаментальная работа в области гр…

Новая книга А. Максимова посвящена Герою России, легендарному сотруднику Службы внешней разведки Л.Р. Квасникову, которого называют идеологом и стратегом атомной разведки. С юношеских лет жизненн…

Настоящий сборник посвящен памяти двух выдающихся деятелей российской юридической науки – профессоров кафедры международного частного и гражданского права МГИМО Виталия Алексеевича Кабатова, засл…

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSarah K has a secret.By day she’s a writer and level-headed single mother; by night she’s a submissive, living a real-life Fifty Shades of Grey that is thrilling beyond…

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR.One woman’s true story of sexual dominance, submission and temptation, The Secret Life of a Submissive and Bonds of Love, now combined in a single eBook volume for…

The incredible true story revealed by a family notebook, telling of four daughters across two centuries of turbulent history, of a passionate and ill-fated royal love affair, ending in a tragic a…