Книги Weidenfeld Nicolson

Sorrow and Bliss | Категория: прикладная и научно-популярная литература, на английском языке.

How to Argue With a Racist History Science Race and Reality | Категория: прикладная и научно-популярная литература, на английском языке.

Never Forget | Jamal loves to run. But one morning, as he is training on a path winding up a steep cliff, he stumbles across a woman in distress. It's a matter of seconds: suddenly she is falling thro...

Meditations | Категория: прикладная и научно-популярная литература, на английском языке.

Today Will Be Different | Eleanor Flood knows she's a mess. But today will be different. Today she will shower and put on real clothes. She will attend her yoga class after dropping her son, Timby, of...

The Book of Humans | WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war? Sex for pleasure? Creating art? Mastery of fire? In this thrilling tour of the animal kingdom, Adam Rutherford tells the story of how we became th...

A Scanner Darkly | Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading f...

The Most Fun We Ever Had | MEET THE SORENSON FAMILY MARILYN has somehow fallen into motherhood and spent four decades married to DAVID, who’s pretty certain he loves her more than anyone has ever love...

Socrates | 'If you put me to death; SOCRATES warned his Athenian judges, 'you will not easily find anyone to take my place' So indeed it would prove, a single cup of hemlock robbing the western philos...

Don t Let Go | Michel Bussi is one of Frances most ingenious crime writers... has plenty of twists and turns in store in this fast-moving novel about a long-planned act of revenge Joan Smith, SUNDAY T...

An Unreliable Man | Jakop is a lonely man.Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life attending the funerals of people he doesn't know, obscurin...

We Are Displaced | In this powerful and emotional New York Times bestseller, Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist Malala Yousafzai shares various stories of displacement, including her own. Part memo...

The Woman on the Stairs | For decades the painting was believed to be lost.But, just as mysteriously as it disappeared, it reappears, an anonymous donation to a gallery in Sydney. The art world is stu...

Written in History | WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters f...

The Ratline | THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable JOHN LE CARRE Remarkable THE SUNDAY TIMES Breathtaking, gripping, shattering ELIF SHAFAK A taut and finely crafted factua...

Never Forget | Jamal loves to run. But one morning, as he is training on a path winding up a steep cliff, he stumbles across a woman in distress. It's a matter of seconds: suddenly she is falling thro...

How to Argue With a Racist. History, Science, Race and Reality | The ultimate anti-racism guide Caroline Criado Perez Seriously important Bill Bryson A fascinating debunking of racial pseudoscience Gu...

Where d You Go, Bernadette | To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she's his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife. To fellow mothers at the school gate, she's a menace. To design experts, s...

Andy Warhol | 'Should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people who have trouble imagining how popular art can challenge the status quo' L A TIMES Painter, film...

Inland | Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life, biding her time with her youngest son - who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around ...

Waiting For Monsieur Bellivier | Helena should of course say no. She doesn't know the man talking to her, she doesn't know Monsieur Bellivier, and she certainly isn't waiting for him. But, bored of li...

Dark Matter | January 1937. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to be the wireless operator on an Arctic expedition, he jumps a...

The Queen's Gambit | When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings, albeit fleetingly: playing chess and taking the little green ...

The Touch | Karen and Barney Stark should never have married. Childless, uncomfortable and incompatible, their marriage has not been a success, and the lack of a child only makes the tension between t...

Cinema Speculation | A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino. The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of ...

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived. The Stories in Our Genes | From the acclaimed science writer and broadcaster, a dazzling tour of the latest genetic discoveries which are blurring the bound...

Call The Midwife. A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s | Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many wome...

Olga | Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a...

London Bone and Other Stories | Mysterious fossils found deep under London's streets create a whole new 'heritage' industry - but what does selling London's history mean for the city? In these remarka...

Flowers For Algernon | Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But the...

The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall | Ed Hartlepool has been living in self-imposed exile for five years, but with a settlement regarding his inheritance looming, he must return to his ancestral seat, Hartl...

Don't Let Go | Picture the scene - an idyllic resort on the island of Reunion. Martial and Liane Bellion are enjoying the perfect moment with their six-year-old daughter. Turquoise skies, clear water,...

The Reunion | French Riviera, Winter 1992 Beautiful, reckless 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell runs away with Alexis, her philosophy teacher. No one will ever see them again. French Riviera, Spring 2017 For...

Ubik | Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messag...

Midnight in Europe | Paris, 1938. Democratic forces are locked in struggle as the shadow of war edges over Europe. Cristian Ferrar, a handsome Spanish lawyer in Paris, is approached to help a clandest...

The Prisoner of Heaven | It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from The Shadow of the Wind have married. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with ...

The Other Mother | A child claims his mother is an imposter - but only one person believes him. Nothing is as fragile as the memory of a child... Malone, a child barely four years old, starts to claim...

Sorrow and Bliss | Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. A gift, her mother once s...

The Labyrinth of the Spirits | As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an extraordinary novel that would change the course of his life. Now a you...

Istanbul. A Tale of Three Cities | Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare,...

Call The Midwife. A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s | Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many wome...

The President | The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country usually identified as Guatemala. Drawing on his experienc...

Marina | ‘Fifteen years on, the remembrance of that day has returned to me. I have seen that boy wandering through the mist of the railway station, and the name of Marina has flared up again like a fr...

The Queen's Gambit | When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings, albeit fleetingly: playing chess and taking the little green ...

Stalin. The Court of the Red Tsar | This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, M...

Pelagia and the White Bulldog | Canine conspiracies, spurned lovers, murderous greed, jealousy, politics, power and knitting: Pealgfia and the White Bulldog marks the beginning of an addictively enter...

The Most Fun We Ever Had | Meet the Sorenson Family. Marilyn has somehow fallen into motherhood and spent four decades married to David, who's pretty certain he loves her more than anyone has ever lov...

Ask A Historian. 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know | Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? How fast was the medieval Chinese post system? How do we know how people sound...

Snobs | The Sunday Times bestselling novel from the award-winning creator of Downton Abbey and Oscar-winning writer of Gosford Park. Edith Lavery is a woman on the make. The attractive only child of a...

Black City | An action-packed mystery in which the stakes are far higher than ever before: can Fandorin capture a renowned criminal, save the Russian Empire and avoid a global war? Crimea, 1914 When t...

The New Me | In a windowless office, women stand in a circle. One explains something from her real, nonwork life - about the frustration and indignity of returning an item she bought online. One wears...

Mary Queen of Scots | An infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political sense - formed at the absolute court of France - plunged ...

Diet Myth. The Real Science Behind What We Eat | Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal and gain weight, while another eating the same meal loses pounds? Why, despite all the a...

Murder on the Leviathan | The third Erast Fandorin mystery from Boris Akunin, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murder...

A Scanner Darkly | A brilliant sci-fi novel from one of the last century's most influential pop culture figures. Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its wa...

Augustus. From Revolutionary to Emperor | The story of how Augustus rose from an obscure teenager to become Rome's first and greatest emperor. Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute po...

Angels with Dirty Faces. The Footballing History of Argentina | Alfredo Di Stefano, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistua, Juan Roman Riquelme, Lionel Messi... Argentina has produced some of the greatest f...

Catherine the Great and Potemkin. The Imperial Love Affair | 'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ...Excellent, with dazzling ma...

Not Saying Goodbye | After the cliffhanger finale of Black City, Fandorin is back for one final adventure: will he survive the new order in post-Revolution Russia? Russia, 1918 The young Soviet state ...

Cristiano Ronaldo. The Biography | Fully updated to include the 2017-18 season and Ronaldo's transfer to Juventus Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest footballers of all time, a dream he pursued f...

A History of Scotland | Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past. Yet the stories and figures that dominate Scottish history - tales of failure, submission, t...

The Lightkeeper's Daughters | Elizabeth's eyes have failed. She can no longer read the books she loves or see the paintings that move her, but her mind remains sharp and music fills the vacancy left b...

The Maidens | Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and...

The Watcher in the Shadows | A mysterious toymaker who lives as a recluse in an old mansion, surrounded by the mechanical beings he has created… an enigma surrounding strange lights that shine through...