Historie

Michael Pollan

George Orwell, Christina Dumalasová, Kateřina Horáková

Vstupte do světa, kde se zvířata bouří proti tyranské nadvládě lidí v touze po utopické harmonii, kde hledají svobodu a spravedlnost. Klasická alegorie George Orwella o moci, zradě a ctižádosti ožívá…

Angela Y. Davis

Mary Beard

Britain's favourite classicist lifts the lid on the Roman Empire in this major non-fiction release for 2015. Covering 1,000 years of history, and casting fresh light on the basics of Roman culture from…

Anne Applebaum

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays…

Alena Mizerová, Lea Novotná, Radka Vyskočilová…

A university without its own publishing house is like a cathedral without an organ: wild-growing and silent. Masaryk University has got its publishing house, which even ranks among the largest in Central…

Ivan Mrázek

Precious stones are masterpieces of nature and their mysterious shimmer has fascinated man since time immemorial. This overview publication briefly conveys the history of precious stones, introduces…

Ian Kershaw

When the two volumes of Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis were published, they were immediately greeted around the world as the essential works…

Ben Macintyre

Timothy Snyder

Norman Ohler

An account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary troops. In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler shows how…

Adam Zamoyski

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall…

The Sunday Times BestsellerżA Sunday TimesHistory Book of the Year 2023A Spectator Book of the Year 2023The Irish Times No.1 Bestseller

Hampton Sides

Amitav Ghosh

Sathnam Sanghera

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the world. 'A wonderful book' Rory Stewart 'Nuanced and deeply researched'…

Jonn Elledge

Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER 'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' GIDEON DEFOE People have been drawing lines…

In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a…

Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook