'Wry, beautiful, surprising and deeply moving' Rachel Seiffert, Guardian 'Captures so excellently the low level anxiety that hums through everyday life' Daily Telegraph You wake up. You go to work. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you get so blackout drunk you can't remember the circumstances which have led you to waking up next to your colleague. The next day...

Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are long overdue for discovery. Of the forty-nine stories in the present volume, only thirty were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear here for the first time. Like their author, Crowley's stories are fun, smart, witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in...

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford...

Europe's cathedrals are magnificent. They outstrip palaces and castles. They are the most sensational group of structures anywhere in the world - which everyone should 'see before they die'. They are also hugely popular, most of them absolutely packed. They are humankind's greatest creations. In Europe's 1oo Best Cathedrals, Simon Jenkins has travelled the continent - from Chartres to York,...

Kolejny tom kolekcji „Najwybitniejsi Naukowcy”, prezentującej postaci ludzi nauki, których badania przyczyniły się do rozwoju ludzkości w różnych dziedzinach – medycynie, przyrodzie, fizyce czy astronomii. Jego bohaterem jest Galileusz, astronom, eksperymentator, dociekliwy i uparty badacz, którego obserwacje potwierdziły to o czym ponad 100 lat wcześniej pisał Mikołaj Kopernik – że Ziemia...

From the  NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLING  author, Rebecca Yarros, comes the eagerly anticipated sequel to  TIKTOK SENSATION  and  RADIO TWO BOOK CLUB  pick  Fourth Wing . . . Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College, Violet included. But Threshing was only the first...

Головні герої два друга Білчик і Ведмідь, які проводять дні разом без нудьги. Вони ходять на риболовлю, разом з кроликами навчаються хоровим співам, купаються в річці, кидають виклик бурі та багато іншого. Книга складається з 20 самостійних історій, які зручно читати з дитиною та поринати у неймовірні пригоди. Кожна розповідь здатна захопити уяву та подарувати світлі теплі емоції.

„Gigant Poleca” to największa seria komiksowa, jaka ukazała się w Polsce – wszystkie wydane historyjki liczą ponad 60 tysięcy stron! „Gigant Poleca” bawi polskich czytelników już od 1992 r., kiedy był wydawany jako „Komiks Gigant”. Każdy tom zawiera 256 stron prześmiesznych historii z przygodami znanych i lubianych postaci, takich jak Kaczor Donald wraz z siostrzeńcami,...

Resigned and defeated? It's time to unf*ck yourself. This is not the usual self-help book. It's time to unf*ck yourself and unleash your greatness! This is blunt force trauma to the way you think life has to be for you. Most importantly, it is designed to give you an authentic leg up - one that feels genuine and right for you, and can propel you to new levels of greatness. It will teach you...

Przenieś się w czasie na średniowieczne gościńce i pola bitewne. Wciel się w rolę kapitana oddziału najemników i sprawdź swój zmysł strategiczny. Czy poprowadzisz swoje wojska do zwycięstwa? Jedna fałszywa decyzja może oznaczać rozlew krwi Twoich towarzyszy. Zyskaj ich szacunek i poprowadź oddział w bój w imię króla, który będzie gotów najhojniej zapłacić za Wasze miecze i ostrogi....

A short gift book of festive hospital diaries from the author of million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreaking peek behind the...

The world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture elevates hype to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act. Calling Bullshit gives us the tools to see through the obfuscations, deliberate and careless, that dominate every realm of our lives. In this lively guide, biologist Carl...

The magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin the largest programme of social reengineering ever attempted: the root-and-branch uprooting and...

Shirley Jackson's masterpiece: the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible lunatic. 'Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum ... Through depths and depths and bloodwarm depths we fall, until the surface is only an eerie gleam high above, nearly forgotten;...

The first rock-star writer' Guardian With ‘long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips … and Harleys flashing chrome’, the Hell’s Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels,...

A six-figure offer. A family mystery to solve. A town of buried secrets. When Auto mechanic Sawyer Taft's estranged grandmother offers her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season, Sawyer's first instinct is to run a mile. But then she realizes her grandmother's offer might mean solving the biggest mystery of her life - her father's identity. So she signs on the dotted line and...

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the...

It's here! Number one bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with this highly-anticipated companion; the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, readers can...

Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender's Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune, one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. Melange, or 'spice', is the most valuable - and rarest - element in the universe. And it can only be found on a single planet: the inhospitable desert world Arrakis. Whoever controls Arrakis controls the spice. And whoever controls the spice...

Przygotujcie się do badania głębin oceanów, dalekiego kosmosu i wszystkiego po drodze! Krwiożercze rekiny, skomplikowane roboty, upierzone welociraptory i dużo więcej czeka na was w NAUKOMIKSACH! Jesteście gotowi na wstrząs? W nie tak odległej przyszłości nasz świat skuwa pokrywa lodu i śniegu. Czy ludzie zdołają okiełznać moc ukrytą we wnętrzu Ziemi, by zapewnić...