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Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours • Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an extraordinary exercise in sporting redemption: the Spanish cyclist had just spent 18 months in Franco's concentration camps, punishment for expressing Republican sympathies during the civil war. Seventy nine years later, perennially over-ambitious cyclo-adventurer Tim Moore developed a fascination with Berrendero's story, and having borrowed an old road bike with the great man's name plastered all over it, set off to retrace the 4,409km route of his 1941 triumph - in the midst of a global pandemic • What follows is a tale of brutal heat and lonely roads, of glory, humiliation, and then a bit more humiliation

A detective under arrest. A killer running free. A dark and gripping thriller set in the Stockholm Archipelago, from an international bestseller and Scandicrime star • Detective Inspector Sam Berger's life has been turned upside down. He is suspected of a murder and his partner, Secret Service agent, Molly Blom, is in a coma • Meanwhile, a terrorist attempt is threatening Stockholm and a wanted murderer is on the loose. Berger escapes to the Stockholm Archipelago while he waits for orders from the Swedish Security Service's chief executive • But is he the solution or is he part of the problem?

Is my experience real? • Or just a movie in my head? • Am I no more than a super computer? • You are your brain, neuroscientists tell us. Everything happens in there. Yet even the most sophisticated brain scan cannot tell us who we are. Nothing in our neurons remotely suggests the rich nature of our experience, the colours, sounds and smells that make up our lives • When Tim Parks came across a radical new theory of consciousness, he set on a quest that moves through one sparkling encounter after another to arrive at the deepest of questions: what stuff exactly is consciousness made of? And where is it? Inside or out?

How does Italy really work? • When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin her studies in a northern university town, she has little idea of the kind of education she will find there. Italian Life is her story, and that of the students and professors around her: a story of power and corruption, influence and exclusion, and the workings of a society where your connections are everything • Written with flair and insight, Italian Life joins Tim Parks' bestselling books about his beloved and paradoxical adopted country. It is a gripping, entertaining, behind-the-scenes account of how Italy actually happens, and the ways it can surprise those who know it inside out

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey • When war correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous nineteenth century trans-Africa expedition - but travelling alone • Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vessels including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of unlikely characters, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers • Butcher's journey was a remarkable feat, but the story of the Congo, told expertly and vividly in this book, is more remarkable still

A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain • 'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense of being 'lowborn' no matter how far you've come?' • Kerry Hudson is proudly working class but she was never proudly poor. The poverty she grew up in was all-encompassing, grinding and often dehumanising. Always on the move with her single mother, Kerry attended nine primary schools and five secondaries, living in B&Bs and council flats. She scores eight out of ten on the Adverse Childhood Experiences measure of childhood trauma • Twenty years later, Kerry's life is unrecognisable. She's a prizewinning novelist who has travelled the world

Anne Enright's entire backlist to be reissued in sumptuous new series style • 'What is a really good novel like? This for a start' The Times • When Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through his things, she finds a photo of herself when she was twelve years old. She has the same smile, but she is wearing the wrong clothes: she is the same, only different • Anne Enright's astonishing novel moves between Dublin, New York and London, following the lives of the real Maria and the girl in the picture. Stepping through the mirror to tell the story of the two women, both haunted by their missing selves, What Are You Like? is an exquisitely written disquisition on families and identity

Умение слушать способно изменить наши взаимоотношения и нашу трудовую жизнь, улучшить наше самопознание, повысить нашу креативность и счастье. Хотя это может потребовать некоторых усилий, это навык, которому можно научиться и усовершенствовать • Книга Кейт Мерфи "Ты не слушаешь. Чего Вам не хватает и почему это важно" изменит вашу жизнь, навсегда изменит ваши разговоры • Когда все, чего мы жаждем, - это понять и быть понятыми, то, что ты не слушаешь, показывает нам, как это сделать • Книга на английском языке • 'Brilliant' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show • When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? • This life-changing book will transform your conversations forever • At work, we're taught to lead the conversation

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks • The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the recent Cuban Missile Crisis, unemployment was on the rise, and yet, underneath the frozen surface, new life was beginning to stir • From poets to pop stars, shopkeepers to schoolchildren, and her own family's experiences, Juliet Nicolson traces the hardship of that frozen winter and the emancipation that followed. That spring, new life was unleashed, along with freedoms we take for granted today

Two tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverb • Despite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations, China, Korea and Japan love to hate each other. Why? • In search of an answer, Michael Booth journeys across East Asia to explore the mutual animosity that frequently threatens to draw the world into all-out war. From misjudged cake decorations to electoral meddling, contradictory origin myths to territorial disputes, this deeply researched and hugely entertaining book shows that no conflict is too small to keep the fires of neighbourly hostility burning

Одним летним днем умная и любознательная Алиса следует за Белым Кроликом в кроличью нору, которая ведет ее в странный мир, полный необычных созданий. «Алиса в Стране чудес» – это невероятно остроумная история, в которой сатира переплетается с загадкой, смех – со страхом. Эта сказка Льюиса Кэрролла наилучшим способом передает воспоминания о беззаботном детстве и напоминает о силе детского воображения. Алиса по сей день остается одним из любимых персонажей английской литературы • Это издание станет идеальным подарком для маленьких поклонников «Алисы в Стране чудес» • По книге сняты мультфильмы и полнометражные фильмы. Для детей • Книга на английском языке • Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternoon she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole