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The true story of forbidden love in eighteenth-century Venice between an Italian noble and the brilliant, illegitimate daughter of an English baronet.In 1754 Andrea Memmo, the dashing and gifted …

The biography of one of Britain’s greatest explorers by a brilliant young writer.The achievements of James Bruce are the stuff of legends. In a time when Africa was an unexplored blank on the map…

How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world’s earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.This is the exciting, true adven…

From the bestselling author of ‘Elizabeth and Mary’, the remarkable love story of Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, set against the turbulence and romance of 17th-century England. [Note tha…

William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade.Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising co…

On an April evening in 1779, a woman is shot on the steps of Covent Garden. Her murderer is a young soldier and Church of England minister; her lover, the Earl of Sandwich, one of the most powerf…

We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulle…

A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie – revised and updated editionAgatha Christie was the author of over 100 plays, short story collections and novels which have been translat…

This edition does not include illustrations.From the author of Unbroken – a major motion picture releasing in 2015 – this is the bestselling true story of three men and their dreams for a racehor…

The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby’s in 1997. The author’s detective work led him across America to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world’s gre…

Sometimes the most unlikely of friendships are the ones that save us. From the loyal dog who risks his own life to rescue a drowning boy to the lost kitten who comforts a grieving woman to an aba…

From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls and GI Brides, this is Jessie’s story, one of three true accounts from the book The Girls Who Went to War.“Since Jessie’s surname was Ward, she was…

From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls and GI Brides, this is Margery’s story, one of three true accounts from the book The Girls Who Went to War.“‘Who does that man think he is?’ Marger…

From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls and GI Brides, this is Kathleen’s story, one of three true accounts from the book The Girls Who Went to War.“Boxing Day was cold and frosty, and by…

Автор дарит читателям поразительно интригующую пьесу о знаменитом русском писателе Михаиле Афанасьевиче Булгакове. Его произведения знает каждый школьник, но на уроках так мало внимания уделяют и…

В книге рассказывается о военных кампаниях Александра Македонского, великого завоевателя, сумевшего создать крупнейшую монархию древности. Сын царя Македонии Филиппа, Александр еще в детстве проя…

Служба в прокуратуре Союза СССР и Генеральной прокуратуре Российской Федерации. На переломе эпох. Люди, дела, встречи.

Данная книга переставляет новую авторскую версию биографии А.С. Пушкина и предназначена для всех любителей и знатоков российской истории и истории литературы в том числе..... Содержит нецензурную…

25 сентября в здании Новой Третьяковки открывалась выставка работ гения поп-арта Энди Уорхола. В чем была его гениальность как художника, продюсера и дизайнера? Как вообще можно делать то, что о…

В книгу Владимира Арлюка-Шапиро вошли избранные статьи, интервью и эссе, объединившие и синтезировавшие пристальный взгляд учёного, горячее перо публициста и взвешенный подход политического анали…