Category Archives: Shower Curtains
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy
A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`His best book yet` The Times`Macintyre`s page-turner is a dazzling portrait of a flawed yet driven individual who risked everything (including her children) for the cause` Sunday TimesDISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE SPY WHO ALMOST KILLED HITLER – FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPY AND THE TRAITORUrsula
Behind the Scenes
`National treasure? I hate that. Too dusty, too in a cupboard, too behind glass, too staid …What I love is being part of a company. On stage I am not trying to be myself, I`m trying to be someone else, the more unlike me the better.` From her first theatrical roles as a teenager in
The Vory: Russia`s Super Mafia
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia`s much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone,
The Huguenots
Following the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and worship in Catholic France. These Huguenots survived persecution and armed conflict to win – however briefly – freedom of worship, civil rights, and unique status as a protected minority. But in 1685, the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes abolished all
Jane Austen: A Life
Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain`s best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman`As near perfect a life of Austen as we are likely to get: intelligent, feeling, suggestive` Carmen Callil, Daily Telegraph`Tomalin has written a biography that reflects
Warsaw Boy: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood
Warsaw Boy is the remarkable true story of a sixteen-year old boy soldier in war-torn Poland. Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war six million had been killed, some were innocent civilians, half of them were Jews but the rest died as a result of a ferocious guerrilla war the
A Delicate Truth
“With A Delicate Truth, le Carre has, in a sense, come home. And it`s a splendid homecoming…Satisfying, subtle and compelling”. (The Times). A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain`s most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence
Think Like an Artist: … And Lead a More Creative, Productive Life
Think Like an Artist by BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz – wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai Weiwei. Why do some people seem to find it easy to come up with fresh, brilliant ideas? And how do they turn them into something worthwhile? After spending years getting up close and personal with
The Architect`s Apprentice
The Architect`s Apprentice is a dazzling and intricate tale from Elif Shafak, bestselling author of The Bastard of Istanbul. `There were six of us: the master, the apprentices and the white elephant. We built everything together…` Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
*Shortlisted for the 2018 Ballie Gifford Prize* `THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ` JOHN LE CARRE A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain`s greatest historiansOn a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart
The Bastard of Istanbul
From the backlist of Elif Shafak, author of The Architect`s Apprentice, The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize. One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor`s surgery. `I need to have an abortion`, she announces. She is nineteen
Love in a Time of Cholera
The 1985 smash hit now in facsimile reprinted Penguin paperback. 51 years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza`s impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half century, Florentino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina.
Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013
In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes the real nature of state power. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths of those who protect the power and privilege of the few against the interests
Tuesday Nights in 1980
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE One town. Three people. A single year that will change them all forever. Welcome to the chaotic, seductive, unpredictable world of 1980s, downtown New York Raul is an Argentinian painter, fresh on New York`s downtown scene, about to explode into fame. James is the city`s
Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923
This book offers a searing cultural history of the remarkable generation who transformed Ireland, from R. F. Foster. It was the winner of the times Literary Supplement Books of the Year and Observer Books of the year 2014. Vivid Faces surveys the lives and beliefs of the people who made the Irish Revolution: linked together
Optimism Over Despair
An essential overview of the problems of our world today — and how we should prepare for tomorrow — from the world`s leading public intellectualWe have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help ensure that the worst will happen. Or we can be optimistic, grasp the opportunities that surely exist, and maybe
I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies
In I Met Lucky People, Yaron Matras, the world`s leading authority on the Romani, explains why we need to reconsider how we view their culture. Who are the Romani people? As one of the last remaining societies in the Western hemisphere with a strictly oral culture, they have no written record of their history that
The Lark
`A charming and brilliantly entertaining novel… shot through with the light-hearted Nesbit touch` Penelope Lively, from the introduction”When did two girls of our age have such a chance as we`ve got – to have a lark entirely on our own? No chaperone, no rules, no…”No present income or future prospects,” said Lucilla.It`s 1919 and Jane
Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
In “Boomerang” Michael Lewis, the international bestselling author of “The Big Short”, “Liars` Poker”, “The Blind Side” and “Moneyball”, turns his trademark wit to the subject of how the financial meltdown hit us all in the face. Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Naomi Klein`s international bestseller `This Changes Everything` is a must-read on our future, one of the defining and most hopeful books of this era. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It`s not about carbon – it`s about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed
