Сборник стихотворений 1860 гг русского писателя, поэта, драматурга из рода Толстых, члена-корреспондента Петербургской Академии наук с 1873 года Алексе́я Константи́новича Толсто́го .
Confessions of an Ageing Tennis PlayerBy Nick OwenRead by Samuel JamesProduced by Raconteurs Audio LLPCover art by Jem Butcher: Tennis player image original artwork by Paul Warren Remember when you were young and emulated your sporting heroes in the streets or school playground and were going to win Gold at the Olympics?
Love in the Rain- Published in 1973, the novel takes place after the Six-Day-War of 1967, and chronicles how war affected the lives of a set of different characters.
Miramar- Miramar takes place in Alexandria, in a pension house that brings together the old Greek Mariana, the owner of the pension, Amer Wajdi, the retired journalist, the wealthy reckless Hosni Allam, Mansour Bahi, the journalist who is fleeing from persecution, and Sarhan Al-Behairi, the opportunistic rural university student.
Adrift on the Nile- Adrift on the Nile is a brief novel by Naguib Mahfouz that portraits theabsurdity and emptiness of life in Cairo during the late 1960's, and the yearning for a seriousness.
Writers Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler accompany us on a contemplative journey of grief resulting from loss in its five stages, from denial to acceptance.
The book is about the horror of the closed rooms, which hovering suspicions and tales that include everything that the fantasy of a person is very wide from these tales .
'Glorious' Guardian'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATORIn his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors.
'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE'An instant classic of British nature-writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland.
The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith's three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020.
An astonishing saga consisting of ten tales of successive generations that span two centuries, from the era of Ashur the great survivor to Ashur the last.
Escape to the beautiful Greek Island of Hydra with this moving novel, filled with family secrets and romanceEmma Cowell, author of THE HOUSE IN THE OLIVE GROVE, returns with her brand new, emotional and romantic novel set on an idyllic Greek Island.
A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the YearFive hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal's College.
Books 1, 2 and 3 in the SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT series - known collectively as THE FACELESS ONES TRILOGY, Derek Landy's fantastically imaginative series about our favourite dead detective.
