In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens...
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Knihapevná vazba641 KčSkladem > 5 ks
Once upon a time in an enormous forest, there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. Around them a war wages, and hunger is a constant companion. Yet every night, the woodcutter's wife prays for a child...
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Knihapevná vazba408 KčSkladem 1 ks
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, ...
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Přečtenávýborný stav333 KčSkladem
In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in a newly safe and stable era. But only a year later, ...
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Knihapevná vazba814 KčSkladem 1 ks
In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief, rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves...
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Knihapevná vazba356 KčSkladem 1 ks
Towards the end of the summer of 2016 I found an old diary in a cardboard box, hundreds of typed pages, the first dated 9 September 1989. I put the diary away without reading it...
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Knihapevná vazba558 KčSkladem 2 ks
In Politics, Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language's best-loved living poets presents from her own archives, in chronological order...
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Knihapevná vazba262 KčSkladem 1 ks
This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon...
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Knihapevná vazba498 KčSkladem 1 ks
A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself...
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Knihapevná vazba423 KčSkladem 3 ks
Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest, and as she is joined by hundreds of others, the authorities declare an emergency....
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Knihapevná vazba550 KčSkladem 1 ks
In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty first century...
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Přečtenávýborný stav304 KčSkladem
The Cat Who Saved Books is a heart-warming story about finding courage, caring for others – and the tremendous power of books...
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Knihapevná vazba345 KčSkladem 1 ks
There is something beautiful and wild in the impossible architecture of lighthouses. They have been the homes and workplaces of men and women whose romantic guardianship has saved countless lives from cruel seas...
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Knihapevná vazba566 KčSkladem 1 ks
One we've learned it as children few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. And yet the order if the alphabet, that simple knowledge that we take for granted, plays a major role in our adult lives...
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Knihapevná vazba425 KčSkladem 1 ks
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents...
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