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- The Twentysomething Treatment - Meg Jay
The Twentysomething Treatment - Meg Jay
- Meg Jay
- 288
- anglické
Our twenties can be challenging. Today, so many twentysomethings are struggling, especially with anxiety and depression, and yet we’re not sure what to think or do about it. In...
- When genius failed
When genius failed
- HarperCollins
- 2002
- Roger Lowenstein
- 288
- anglické
Publikace: When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management. Picking up where Liar's Poker left off (literally, in the bond dealer's desks of Salomon...
- Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut junior
Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut junior
- 4th Estate
- beletrie
- 2019
- Kurt Vonnegut junior
- 256
- anglické
From the author of Slaughterhouse 5. In Rabo Karabekian’s fictional autobiography, Vonnegut creates an impeccably funny satirical piece, through the reflections of a...
- Doxology - Nell Zink
Doxology - Nell Zink
- Nell Zink
- 304
- anglické
Two generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving and original novel from the "intellectually restless, uniquely funny" (New York...
- If I Survive You
If I Survive You
- 2023
- Escoffery, Jonathan
- 272
- anglické
A major debut that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and Hurricane Andrew. 1979. Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes...
- Vagabonds!
Vagabonds!
- 2023
- Eloghosa Osunde
- 320
- anglické
VAGABONDS! is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous novel of oppression and defiance among the people and spirits of Lagos. Lagos is a city for all... you share this place with...
- Riverman
Riverman
- 2023
- Ben McGrath
- 272
- anglické
Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of America's riverbank...
- Mrs S Patrick KPaperback
Mrs S Patrick KPaperback
- 2023
- K. Patrick
- 304
- anglické
Powerfully sensual and sublimely stylish, Mrs S is a tale of queer love that smoulders with the heat of summer. In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the...
- Toast
Toast
- 2023
- Nigel Slater
- 288
- anglické
Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and...
- Freelance Mum - A Flexible Career Guide for Better Work-Life Balance Ridout AnniePaperback
Freelance Mum - A Flexible Career Guide for Better Work-Life Balance Ridout AnniePaperback
- 2019
- Annie Ridout
- 288
- anglické
More time with your kids, making the money you know you're worth and a better work/life balance. No wonder more women than ever are choosing to be become freelance mums. In the...
- Wandering Souls
Wandering Souls
- 2024
- Cecile Pin
- 256
- anglické
An extraordinary story of the journey of one young family through love, loss and unwavering hope. There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies – everything in...
- Meet Me at the Surface
Meet Me at the Surface
- 2024
- Jodie Matthews
- 304
- anglické
A haunting ode to Cornish folklore and the secrets of the places we call home Everything that comes from the ground has to go back down… eventually Merryn grew up on the wilds...
- The Patriarchs - Angela Saini
The Patriarchs - Angela Saini
- 2024
- Angela Saini
- 320
- anglické
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book'...
- Friendly Fire - Al Aswany Alaa
Friendly Fire - Al Aswany Alaa
- HarperCollins
- beletrie
- 2010
- Al Aswany Alaa
- 300
- anglické
A novella and collection of short stories from the acclaimed Egyptian author of The Yacoubian Building and Chicago. Translated by Humphrey Davies. The novella included was...
- Miss Treadway a the Field of Stars
Miss Treadway a the Field of Stars
- Miranda Emmerson
- 304
- anglické
How do you find a missing actress in a city where everyone’s playing a role? Soho. 1965, When an American actress disappears from the Galaxy Theatre, her young dresser, Anna...
- Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Man Who Loved Only Numbers
- 1999
- Paul Hoffman
- 302
- anglické
Publikace: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Hoffman Paul. The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably,...
- What She Ate
What She Ate
- naučné
- 2018
- Shapiro Laura
- 307
- anglické
‘If you find the subject of food to be both vexing and transfixing, you’ll love What She Ate’ Elle Dorothy Wordsworth believed that feeding her poet brother, William,...
- Maybe Esther
Maybe Esther
- beletrie
- 2018
- Katja Petrowskaja
- 272
- anglické
The poignant, searching, haunting story of one family's entanglement with twentieth-century history AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER `Intensely involving ... a fervent meditation on...
- Party
Party
- beletrie
- 2018
- Elizabeth Day
- 294
- anglické
A taut psychological tale of obsession and betrayal set over the course of a dinner party. The Party tells the story of two married couples who, in a single evening, will come...
- Hold
Hold
- beletrie
- 2018
- Michael Donkor
- 320
- anglické
Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It's a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should...
- Bad Blood - Lorna Sage
Bad Blood - Lorna Sage
- beletrie
- 2019
- Lorna Sage
- 288
- anglické
One of the most critically acclaimed memoirs ever written. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a...
- Smallest Lights In The Universe
Smallest Lights In The Universe
- 2021
- Sara Seager
- 320
- anglické
In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace after losing her first husband to cancer, her...
- Skills - From First Job to Dream Job - What Every Woman Needs to Know Husain MishalPevná vazba
Skills - From First Job to Dream Job - What Every Woman Needs to Know Husain MishalPevná vazba
- Mishal Husain
- 304
- anglické
In The Skills award-winning broadcaster Mishal Husain inspires, champions and encourages women to make their ambitions a reality by focusing on practical skills that make a...