In the service of empire
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Empire: Enter the battlefields of Ancient Greece in the epic new novel from the multi-million copy bestseller - Iggulden Conn
Anotace: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERJOIN PERICLES, THE LION OF ATHENS, ON A JOURNEY TO SECURE THE FATE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE`The master historical storyteller` DAILY EXPRESS`Iggulden draws the Greek world convincingly and he is strongest writing battle scenes` THE TIMES on the Golden Age series`The sights, sounds and smells of Athens bring history to life with gripping ...
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In the Service of the Emperor
Covers the dramatic 15 years of Japanese Empire expansion.
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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon - Lewis Michael
Anotace: From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century`s most spectacular financial collapses `I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. "One hundred and fifty billion dollars," he f...
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In America
Anotace: The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland`s most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzej...
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A Spy In The House Of Love - Nin Anais
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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Empire and Environment
Argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the trans
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Wings of Empire
A key collection of material from the earliest days of air strategy and combat, creating a definitive history of the RAF in an important theatre of wa
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Violence of Empire
The gruesome history of the Congo–Oc©an Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial Africa
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Empire
The first in a series set in the world of theatre by the master of musical theatre.
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Empire
The bestselling epic of Ancient Rome with a new cover design to tie in with hardback publication of DOMINUS, the third book in this bestselling trilog
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Empire
The second novel in bestselling author John Connolly's epic YA Sci-Fi trilogy of violence, power and love. For fans of Rick Yancey and Pittacus Lore
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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture - Gabor Maté
Anotace: We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world?Mental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45% of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70% of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Illness and trauma are defining how we live.In his new masterpiece, renowned physician, addiction expert and author ...
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The Myth of Normal : Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture - Maté Gabor
Anotace: Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on a seemingly unstoppable rise. Nearly 70% of Americans are now on prescription drugs. So what is `normal` when it comes to health?Over four decades of clinical experience, renowned physician and addiction expert Dr Gabor Mate has seen how health systems neglect the rol...
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Calypso in London - Selvon Sam
Anotace: ntroducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranea...
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To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods - Chang Molly X.
Anotace: Red Queen meets These Violent Delights and Iron Widow in an epic anti-colonial YA fantasy from debut author Molly X. Chang.`A thrilling tale of magic and murder, intrigue and betrayal.` Cassandra Clare`Hauntingly poetic prose` Xiran Jay Zhao`A tender and brutal fantasy that will leave readers breathless and eager for more` Rebecca RossKnown as The Girl Blessed B...
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Life in the Garden - Lively Penelope
Anotace: Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother`s garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive Oxfordshire gardens of her own, and the smaller urban garden in the North London home she lives in today. It is...
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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Film Tie-in (Book 1 of Percy Jackson) - Riordan Rick
Anotace: The Lightning Thief: the first book in Rick Riordan`s Percy Jackson series.Look, I didn`t want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek god. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That`s when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time f...
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Territory of Light - Tsushima Yuko
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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A Winter in New York - Silverová Josie
Anotace: Where better to start again than New York? Iris arrives in the city of dreams, intent on restarting her culinary career, and leaving her recent heartache behind. Wandering the streets at a famous food festival, Iris feels like she's living in a movie. Then she stumbles upon a gelateria that looks strangely familiar. Inside, she meets Gio: a perfect leadin...
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Newcastles of the World
A full colour book in the travelogue style of the history, culture and diversity of places called Newcastle
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A Death in Vienna - Silva Daniel
Anotace: Art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing which killed an old friend - a Nazi hunter. While there he encounters something that turns his whole life upside down. Each fact he uncovers only leads to more questions until finally a picture emerges which is more terrible than he could have ever imagined - a portrait o...
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Book of Naseeb
In this breathtaking first novel, Khaled Nurul Hakim chronicles the hero's struggle for redemption through the backstreets and motorway service statio
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The Imitation of the Rose - Lispector Clarice
Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century. The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the lum...
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The Gift of the Magi - Henry O.
Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. O. Henry is one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century and a true master of the short story. This selection of tales ranges from Christmas in New York t...
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The Nature of Things - Lucretius Titus Carus
Anotace: One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.Lucretius` poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul...
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Science in the Service of Human Rights
Science in the Service of Human Rights presents a framework for debate on controversial questions surrounding scientific freedom and responsibility by
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The Women of Troy - Barkerová Pat
Anotace: Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. 'Myth for a MeToo age. Pat Barker returns to Homer in this gory but unexpectedly uplifting novel' Sunday Times Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors -...
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End of Empire
Former BBC correspondent's graphic personal account of National Service with the Suffolk Regiment in the 1950s based on the letters he wrote home to h
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Soul of the Deep - Bowen Natasha
Anotace: For fans of The Gilded Ones, Children of Blood and Bone, and Circe, this is the breathtaking follow-up to SKIN OF THE SEA - an epic love story infused with West African mythology and a powerful new imagining of a devastating time in history, told through the eyes of a bold and unforgettable heroine.One life. One choice. One sacrifice.To save those closest to her...
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The Curse of Saints - Dramis Kate
Anotace: Debut novelist Kate Dramis brings you the viral, enemies to lovers, TikTok fantasy phenomenon that has left followers begging for more Has she been sent to save the realm or destroy it? As Spymaster to the Queen, Aya's blood oath ensures she protects those she fights alongside - including Will, the Queen's Enforcer and Aya's bitter rival. When ...
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The League of Gentlewomen Witches - Holton India
Anotace: Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft. When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to circulate, Charlotte is determined to find the jewel before it falls into the wrong hands. Which is what happens when the evil Lady Armitage reaches it first. Demanding the help of rakish pirate, Alex O'Riley, Charlotte sets off to fin...
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The Queen Of Spades - Puškin Alexandr Sergejevič
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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In Memoriam: THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - Winn Alice
Anotace: It`s 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in an idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. At seventeen, they`re too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the dreamy, poetic Ellwood - not ...
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The Son of Neptune: The Graphic Novel (Heroes of Olympus Book 2) - Riordan Rick
Anotace: The bestselling Heroes of Olympus title by Percy Jackson creator, Rick Riordan - now in stunning graphic novel form!Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, has come face to face with two snake-haired ladies who refuse to die.But they`re the least of his problems. Because Percy finds himself at a camp for half-bloods, which doesn`t ring any bells for him. There`s just on...
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Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck John
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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A Short History of Russia - Galeotti Mark
Anotace: Can anyone truly understand Russia?Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone`s `other`. And yet it is one of the most powerful nations on earth, a master game-player on the global stage with a rich history of war and peace, poets and revolutionaries.In this essenti...
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Beasts of Ruin - Gray Ayana, Gray Ayana
Anotace: The powerful and magical sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller BEASTS OF PREY, perfect for fans of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, SHADOW AND BONE and THE GILDED ONES.`A fast-paced, rip-roaring ride that grabs you by the throat and never lets you go. A masterpiece of magic` - Namina Forna, New York Times bestselling author of The Gilded Ones on Beasts of PreyKo...
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Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
This book offers a history of Mennonites from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire to the collapse of the USSR.
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Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy - Kissinger Henry
Anotace: Kissinger`s six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of th...
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King of Dead Things - Holness Nevin
Anotace: Magical contemporary London. Two lives are about to collide. A journey of self-discovery.For fans of dark fantasy like Cemetery Boys, Noughts and Crosses and Threads that Bind from major new YA talent Jamaican British author Nevin HolnessThe first time Eli had tried taking magic that wasn`t his, it had wrapped around his palms like razor wire, tight enough that ...
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Wings : The Third Book of the Nomes - Pratchett Terry
Anotace: When you`re four inches high in a world full of giant people, things never go very well for long.After running into trouble at the quarry, the nomes want to go home. The problem is, `home` is somewhere up in the stars, in some sort of Ship.Masklin must find a way to get to the `launch` of a `communications satellite` (whatever that is).And so begins an incredibl...
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The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found - Lees Jordan
Anotace: The spell-binding world-building of Philip Pullman with the page-turning kid appeal of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. Discover a world of magic and secrets, friendship and unimaginable quests in this spectacular new fantasy series from the most exciting new voice in children`s books.A boy who doesn`t believe in magic. An impossible world that will change his min...
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The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found - Lees Jordan
Anotace: The spell-binding world-building of Philip Pullman with the page-turning kid appeal of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. Discover a world of magic and secrets, friendship and unimaginable quests in this spectacular new fantasy series from the most exciting new voice in children`s books.A boy who doesn`t believe in magic. An impossible world that will change his min...
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With Fire In Their Blood - Delacorte Kat, Delacorte Kat
Anotace: When sixteen-year-old Lilly arrives in Castello, she isn`t impressed.A secluded town in the Italian mountains is not where she saw her last years of high school playing out.Divided for generations by a brutal clan-family war, the two halves of Castello are kept from destroying each other by the mysterious General, a leader determined to maintain order and `purit...
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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - Doyle Arthur Conan
Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Emerging from their smoke-filled rooms at 21B Baker Street, Holmes and Watson grapple with the forces of crime that stalk the streets of London. From the first story, 'A ...
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A Million Kisses In Your Lifetime - Murphy Monica
Anotace: Could they - should they - become the school's most unlikely couple? Wren Beaumont is a model student. Kind, clever and beautiful, she is loved by everyone at Lancaster Prep. Everyone but brooding campus bad boy Crew Lancaster. Son of the family who own the school, Crew's life seems easy - but with an overbearing father and high expectations, it&apos...
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Partners of the Empire
Partners of Empire offers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - McCullers Carson
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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The Tale Of Peter Rabbit : Birthday Edition - Potterová Beatrix
Anotace: Celebrate our beloved furry friend, Peter Rabbit, with this beautiful birthday edition of the classic tale.This birthday edition has been re-originated to match Beatrix Potter`s first published work with a celebratory new cover.A must have first book for every little reader.Peter Rabbit loves the yummy vegetables he finds in Mr McGregor`s garden, the only proble...
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The Tale of Benjamin Bunny Picture Book - Potterová Beatrix
Anotace: Discover Peter Rabbit`s next adventure with his brave cousin, Benjamin Bunny, with a picture book edition of this classic tale. This new large format is perfect to for families to share and read all about Peter Rabbit`s very first adventure!Peter Rabbit has been an icon of children`s literature, starring in everything from books to toys to films! This next tale ...
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Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control - Russell Stuart
Anotace: FROM THE BBC REITH LECTURER 2021`The most important book I have read in quite some time` Daniel Kahneman; `A must-read` Max Tegmark; `The book we`ve all been waiting for` Sam HarrisHumans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed?Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, accordin...
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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things - Adam Grant
Anotace: #1 New York Times bestseller "This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would`ve helped me find a more joyful path to progress."-Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis championThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again il...
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The Hundred Loves of Juliet: A Novel - Skye Evelyn
Anotace: I may go by Sebastien now, but my name was originally Romeo. And hers was Juliet.It`s a frosty fairytale of an evening in small-town Alaska when Helene and Sebastien meet for the first time. Except it isn`t the first time. You already know that story, though it didn`t happen quite as Shakespeare told it.To Helene, Sebastien is the flesh-and-blood hero of the lov...
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