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From butcher's daughter in Communist Hungary to winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023, this is the story of one woman's extraordinary determination through decades of …
In the summer of 1941, as the Germans invade Russia, newspaper reporter Vasily Grossman is swept to the frontlines, witnessing some of the most savage atrocities in Russian …
Translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with a new introduction by Leo Damrosch'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social …
A humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from the Adam Kay of mental healthcare (THE TIMES) 'Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really …
The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever.On the 14th of August 1941, a Polish priest named Maximilian …
'A profoundly moving memoir which gripped me' Mark HaddonDiscover Catherine Coldstream s evocative account of life as a nun in the 1990s, and the dramatic events which led to her …
An intimate and illuminating account of queer lives and migration, homemaking and community in the Gulf, from a brilliant new voice in narrative non-fiction'An eye-opening tour de …
I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe. The hope of a better life is stronger than any other feeling. My mother decided it was better to know I …
This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty.'Compelling and original' …
From the author of the internationally acclaimed Putin's Russia and A Russian Diary. Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya …