The Czech Republic’s current ambassador to Britain, Michael Žantovský, has sealed deals with British and US publishing houses for a biography in English of former dissident leader and president Václav Havel, which should come out in 2014.
Žantovský told the business daily Hospodářské...
ALL BETSEY DOBSON HAS EVER ASKED IS THE CHANCE TO BE VIEWED ON HER OWN MERITS, BUT IN A MAN’S WORLD, THAT IS THE UNFORGIVABLE SIN
When Betsey disembarks from the London train in the seaside resort of Idensea, all she owns is a small valise and a canary in a cage. After attempting to forge...
His once glowing olive complexion was dull, and bags hung heavily under his eyes. With his enthusiasm for football seemingly eroded, José Mourinho’s tumultuous three-year reign as Real Madrid manager came to an end. The Special One had seemingly lost his stardust as he saw his side limp out...
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades.
Achieving eleven...
If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe controls the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors, presidents and dictators have set...
Celia Sánchez is the missing actor of the Cuban Revolution. Although not as well known in the English-speaking world as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Sánchez played a pivotal role in launching the revolution and administering the revolutionary state. She joined the clandestine 26th of July...
What if you closed your eyes, blew out the candles, and your wish came true?
Ellie Jerome is a young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old who feels she has more in common with her twenty-nine-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, than her fifty-five-year-old daughter, Barbara. Ellie’s done everything...
Forget Dawkins or Hitchens, this is a refreshingly unbiased non-believer's account of WHAT humans have believed across the ages, and WHY.
What first prompted prehistoric man, sheltering in the shadows of deep caves, to call upon the realm of the spirits?
And why has belief thrived...
Bruce Springsteen loves to talk. His peformances include stage banter and stories, and his lyric sheets are packed with words. He always has something to say, about his work, his politics, and his version of what America means. And much has been written about the Boss. Fans can hope that some...
Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is the most influential political cartoonist in the country, “a man capable of having a law revoked, disrupting a judge’s sentence, knocking down a mayor or seriously threatening a ministry’s stability, and with his weapons only being paper and Indian...
In Publishers Lunch the book’s editor calls it “a narrative history of the open access movement, framed by the life and shocking suicide of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz”.
There’s no official copy on this yet, but the author frames the book’s central conflict as “on one hand, those who...
When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he’d highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture as to make the very...
Christopher Duggan's new history of fascist Italy explores how the movement became embodied in the person of Benito Mussolini who occupied for many an almost divine status and gave millions of men and women a sense of pride and hope, offering the prospect of national regeneration after...
Stevie Parle and Emma Grazette are on a mission to spice up Britain's kitchens and revolutionise the way we cook with the treasures hidden away in our cupboards. This book, accompanying the Channel 4 series, will show just how to bring the magic of spice into your home.
Emma and Stevie...
What would I do if I were a different person… “, asks the young Aysu. She writes her thoughts in a notebook. The first part of the novel is preceded by the leitmotif “Speak, Memory”, where Aysu recalls her childhood in two countries, on two continents. Part of it was here, and the other spent...
„Never before have we seen depicted with such force the horrible everyday life of the fifties, the breakdown and the compromises of the individual, and the process of a whole society giving up it’s integrity.”
“It’s not a bad idea for a man to get admitted to hospital a couple of days...
“Hats off to Lethbridge, for so touchingly and comprehensively chronicling those lives that history, like the snootiest of employers, has neglected for so long”
Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
No aspect of the twentieth-century home has spoken quite so eloquently to the traditional English...
GOOD ENOUGH FOR PARENTS is a book many have been waiting for. And it delivers what it promises, a true parental book written without pointing fingers or unrealistic demands on the parents.
About the book
Are you the parent who prepares a pile of clothes so that your child has the right...
PREMIERA: 1 LIPCA 2013
Hannibal's campaign to defeat Rome continues as he marches south to confront his enemy.
With him is a young soldier, Hanno. Like his general, Hanno burns to vanquish Rome. Never has the possibility seemed so likely.
But a stealthy game of cat and mouse is...
ELEVEN DAYS by Lea Carpenter – a stunning debut novel -- unexpected, tautly written, suspenseful -- that touches on some of the most profound questions we have about war as it tells us a haunting story of a single mother and her son, a member of the US special operations forces.
ELEVEN...
