Hoxton Childhood & The Years After (Jasper A.S.)(Pevná vazba)

Hoxton Childhood & The Years After (Jasper A.S.)(Pevná vazba)

AS Jasper's memoir of growing up in the East End of London before the First World War was acclaimed as a classic when it was described by the Observer as 'Zola without the trimmings.' In this definitive new edition, it is accompanied by the first publication of the sequel detailing the author's

Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror (Basualdo Carlos)(Pevná vazba)

Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is arguably the most influential artist living today. Over the past 65 years, he has produced a radical and varied body of work marked by constant reinvention. Inspired by the artist's long-standing fascination with mirroring and doubles, this book provides an original and

London In Lockdown (Press Hoxton Mini)(Pevná vazba)

Godmothers (McInerney Monica)(Pevná vazba)

After a troubled and tragic childhood, Eliza is invited to the UK to visit her two godmothers, Olivia and Maxie. Throwing caution to the wind, Eliza accepts and takes a leap into the

The Wines of Burgundy (Coates Clive)(Pevná vazba)

Ten years after the publication of the highly acclaimed, award-winning Cote D'Or: A Celebration of the Great Wines of Burgundy, the 'Bible of Burgundy,' Clive Coates now offers this thoroughly revised and updated sequel. This long-awaited work details all the major vintages from 2006 back to 1959

The Landscape (McCullin Don)(Pevná vazba)

After a career spanning 60 years, Sir Don McCullin, once a witness to conflict across the globe, has become one of the great landscape photographers of our time. McCullin's pastoral view is far from idyllic. He has not sought out the quiet corners of rural England, but is drawn, instead, to the

The Andromeda Evolution (Crichton Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name--and spawned a new genre, the technothriller--the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.The Evolution is Coming.In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth

The New Russia (Gorbachev Mikhail)(Pevná vazba)

After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Russia's elder

The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life (Belsky Jay)(Pevná vazba)

A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year After tracking the lives of thousands of people from birth to midlife, four of the world's preeminent psychologists reveal what they have learned about how humans develop. Does temperament in childhood predict adult personality? What role do parents play in

Theatre Cat (Streatfeild Noel)(Pevná vazba)

A picture book by the author of BALLET SHOES, available again after almost 70 years! Pinkie the cat works at the ballet theatre as a mouser. He loves watching the dancers, but he's scared of the mice he's meant to catch! What's a ballet-loving cat to

Lyra's Oxford (Pullman Philip)(Pevná vazba)

Two years after the conclusion of The Amber Spyglass, Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon sit high on the roof of Jordan College, gazing down on the streets of Oxford. But their peace is shattered by a flock of enraged starlings, who seem intent on knocking another bird out of the sky - a bird that

Akelare (Subijana Pedro)(Pevná vazba)

After nearly forty years, Pedro Subijana, the three star Michelin chef and his world-famous restaurant, Akelaŕe, is at the forefront of the New Basque Cuisine, championed in the 70s by Juan Mari Arzak. In the words of Subijana, 'New Basque Cuisine aims to focus on seasonal products but adding a

The French Laundry, Per Se (Keller Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

When The French Laundry Cookbook was published in 1999 (five years after the opening of the French Laundry restaurant), it broke the mold of all previous cookbooks; it has since come to be considered by many to be the most important restaurant cookbook ever published. With more than 600,000 copies

The (Un)Popular Vote (Sanchez Jasper)(Pevná vazba)

Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez's electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student's foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father. Optics can make or break an election

Mayor: The Best Job in Politics (Nutter Michael A.)(Pevná vazba)

In 2007, after serving almost fifteen years on the Philadelphia City Council, Michael A. Nutter became the ninety-eighth mayor of his hometown of Philadelphia. From the time he was sworn in until he left office in 2016, there were triumphs and challenges, from the mundane to the unexpected, from

The Grey Sisters (Treggiari Jo)(Pevná vazba)

Two years after a deadly plane crash, best friends D and Spider head into the mountains to face their grief. A gripping psychological thriller for fans of The Cheerleaders and Sadie. D and Spider have always been close friends, and they are further united in their shared heartbreak: they both lost

Tempest (Sem-Sandberg Steve)(Paperback / softback)

After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood home: a small island off the Norwegian coast where he grew up with his sister

Currents: The Ables Book 3 (Scott Jeremy)(Pevná vazba)

Set four years after the events of Strings, Currents finds the Ables gang about to start their second year at Goodspeed University. Phillip is struggling more than ever with anxiety and PTSD, and he continues to feel tremendous guilt over the loss of a friend. It's haunting him. He's having vivid

Edward the Confessor: The Sainted King (Woodman David)(Pevná vazba)

Edward the Confessor, the last great king of Anglo-Saxon England, canonized nearly 100 years after his death, is in part a figure of myths created in the late middle ages. In this revealing portrait of England's royal saint, David Woodman traces the course of Edward's twenty-four-year-long reign

Jasper Morrison: The Good Life: Perceptions of the Ordinary (Morrison Jasper)(Pevná vazba)

Photo essays imagining the stories behind a series of seemingly ordinary situationsJust what is it that catches the eye, and why? What's the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this collection of photo

Amazing (Ponsonby Simon)(Pevná vazba)

A beautiful, inspiring gift about the amazing person and nature of Jesus After 30 years of being a disciple, Simon Ponsonby began to reflect on whether he was amazed by Jesus, or whether he had lost his first love, having a relationship with Jesus that was predictable and dutiful. Did Jesus still

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency (Ditlevsen Tove)(Pevná vazba)

Winnie-the-Pooh: Return to the Hundred Acre Wood (Benedictus David)(Pevná vazba)

90 years after Winnie-the-Pooh first delighted readers, David Benedictus takes us back to the Hundred Acre Wood for more adventures with A.A.Milne's Bear of Very Little

Vanity Fair - A Novel Without a Hero (Thackeray William Makepeace)(Pevná vazba)

Set in the years before and after Waterloo, the novel tells the parallel stories of two schoolfriends - the quiet, long-suffering Amelia and her brilliant, scheming friend, Becky Sharp. The novel portrays all the corruption and decadence of 19th-century