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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration and a lot of sex.
In this captivating journey through the expanding landscape of genetics, Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes now tell us about human history, and what history can now tell us about our genes. From Neanderthals to murder, from redheads to race, dead kings to plague, evolution to epigenetics, this is a demystifying and illuminating new portrait of who we are and how we came to be.
Said the Dead
From the author of A Ghost in the Throat, an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page. In the city of Cork, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments. One passerby has always flinched as she passes the place. Had she lived in another time, she too might have found herself held within those walls. Now, she notices a sign: FOR SALE. It is the first of many signs. Guided by an irresistible impulse, she follows them. Soon, she is trespassing, stealing, absconding from the routine of mother, spouse, daughter, as she uncovers a chorus of startling voices: those of the women who knew the hospital best. They murmur from archives and old records. They haunt from stairwells and walls. In them - and in one figure in particular -- she may find meaning and solace, righteous anger, salvation even. Or her final vanishin? work of sublime intensity and tenderness, Said the Dead breaks the boundaries between worlds -- past and present, imagined and real, fact and fiction -- to make something new and lasting: an experience full of danger, full of love and full of truth. Praise for the work of Doireann Ní Ghríofa'The effect is electric, like seeing a ghost returned to life.' New Statesman 'Obliterates every clear definition of genre and form . . . Astounding and utterly fresh.' Irish Independent'Lush, lyrical prose that dazzles readers from the get-go . . . sumptuous, almost symphonic, in its intensity.' Sunday Times'Past versus present, blood versus milk, birth versus death . . . dichotomies abound, but the questions of women's lived experiences and who history remembers link them all.' Paris Review
Twisted Lies
How can you catch a killer when everyone is lyin? hen Detective Kim Stone is called to the crime scene, what she sees leaves her speechless and she knows she's up against a truly twisted killer. But when she breaks the devastating news to the victim's wife, Kim can't help feeling that something isn't quite right about her reaction. Twenty-four hours later, the whole family has disappeared... Then a second body is found staked to the ground in a local nature reserve. But what links them is a fiercely guarded secret... one that the police are helping to hide. Faced with deceit from those she should be able to trust, Kim is in deep water like never before. Can she unlock the shocking truth and stop the killer before he strikes agai? n absolutely jaw-dropping crime thriller from the number one, multi-million-copy bestselling author of the incredibly addictive Detective Kim Stone series. See what readers are saying about Twisted Lies:'OMG!!! SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO US ANGELA!!!! JUST WOW!!!! Seriously love, love LOVED this book!!!!.. I was on the edge of my seat, biting my nails whilst feeling my heart pounding into the silly hours of the morning... one of the best books I have ever read!!!' Bookworm86, ?'You won't want to put it down until you've finished... will make your heart beat faster and keep you hooked from the first page... Fab, fab, fab - what more can I say!!' Stardust Book Reviews, ?'WOW! Just Wow!... took me on an emotional roller coaster... I've definitely given this book 6 out of 5.' John's Book Shelf, ?'You can't stop reading it until the fantastic ending... mesmerizing and riveting! I find it insulting to even rate it giving between one to five stars, because how many stars should you give to the sun?' The World Is Ours to Read, ?'I must have uttered WTF out loud and in full many times... I read it one afternoon...I devoured the pages, and couldn't get enough.' Rachel's Random Reads, ?'You are thrown straight into the action...I was invested in this book from the first page... gripping, thrilling... my favourite book of the year.' NetGalley reviewer, ?'Gripping, clever, unputdownable, thrilling... deserves MORE THAN FIVE STARS.' Goodreads reviewer, ?'Exceptional... I was hooked from the very first page... 1000% recommend.' NetGalley reviewer, ?'You know it's a fantastic book when you start it in the afternoon, hurry through all your normal "life chores" in a race to get into bed and continue reading... totally worth a night of uninterrupted, heart-pumping reading!' BookwormCatLady, ?
World Cup Fever
A Sports Book of the Year in the Irish Times, the FT and the Mail on Sunday'Kuper is one of the best sportswriters in the English language today' New Yorker'Unmissable ... The ultimate book for anyone who loves football' Mail on Sunday'A brilliant evocation of the joy of the football carnival and the absurdities of the global spectacle... an essential companion' David Goldblatt It's the biggest competition on Earth. A four-yearly chance for the world's greatest footballers to realise their ultimate dream. A month-long media spectacle that's watched by billions. The World Cup has changed beyond recognition since the early days, when the players were semi-pros and the trophy went missing. Today, it's a corporate-led bonanza of dark money and dubious ethics. Simon Kuper, bestselling author of Barça, reflects on every tournament since Italia 90 to reveal a captivating portrait of sport in a globalised world. Entertaining and compelling, World Cup Fever is the definitive story of football's greatest drama, and of how the tournament can touch - and even change - our lives.
The Stepchild
Three-year-old Millie Everleigh disappears on a crisp winter's day, and nothing is as it seems... My phone rings. It's my stepdaughter, Shelby, who is babysitting my three-year-old little girl Millie. 'I only went upstairs for a second,' she says through her sobs. 'She's gone.'I race home to find my blue-eyed baby girl missing, and my heart ripped out of my chest. And when the police turn up, Shelby's story starts to unravel. What is she hidin? hen I get a message saying, 'Your husband is not who you think he is.' Could he be lyin? uddenly, my family feel like strangers. Everyone has a secret - even me. Once the truth comes out, and all of our lies are exposed, will it be too late to save my precious chil? pulse-pounding psychological thriller about family secrets, shocking pasts and the lies we tell ourselves in order to survive. You'll lose sleep as you race through the pages until the final gasp-worthy twist! Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Liane Moriarty and The Wife Between Us. Readers love The Stepchild:'WOW!!!!! I couldn't put this book down, it was gripping from beginning to end... Had me on edge, I had to finish it the same day I opened it... A huge twist... WOW is the only thing after that last sentence I can say... It was too GOOD!!!' Goodreads reviewer, ?'Grabbed me from the very first page and never let go... I loved this... Every time I thought I knew what was going to happen I was thrown an ever bigger curveball... Amazing... I never saw the ending coming!' NetGalley reviewer, ?'WOW, WOW, WOW!!! My heart is still pounding! Amazing... Nail-biting thrill ride!... Absolutely unputdownable!! I read this in about 4 hours... I was on the edge of my seat.' Hockessin Book Reads, ?'Omg, wow... Just wow. There are not enough superlatives in the English dictionary to express how much I loved this incredible thriller... Very very highly recommended by little old me.' Nicki's Life of Crime, ?'Amazing amazing amazing. The Stepchild is brilliantly written. There is every kind of emotion that a person could feel within the plot... I adore Nicole Trope.' NetGalley reviewer, ?'Wow, what a brilliant read this was!!!!!...It had me shocked and jumping up with joy all at the same time... I got so immersed... Could do nothing else until I finished it. Time totally stops when I'm reading one of Nicole Trope's books.' Goodreads reviewer, ?
Camp Jupiter Classified
An official companion guide to the bestselling Heroes of Olympus series, set in the incredible world of Percy Jackson!
It's the February after Gaea's defeat. Camp Jupiter, like everyone else, should be celebrating. But something is causing chaos.
Mysterious, sinister incidents are wreaking havoc throughout the camp. Suspicion quickly falls on Claudia, the Fourth Cohort's newest probatio. After all, the mischief started shortly after she stumbled into camp.
To find out the truth, delve into the pages of Claudia's diary. Through her eyewitness accounts, you'll visit the crime scenes (aka the camp grounds) including a row of seats in the coliseum, an underground aqueduct tunnel . . .
And you'll be right alongside Claudia when she discovers an ancient secret that may hold the key to Camp Jupiter's safety.
Return to the World of Percy Jackson in the best-selling, brand-new adventure featuring the original hero in Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess - out now!
The Buried City
A vast area of Pompeii is being excavated for the first time, revealing astonishing insights into how people really lived. In this revelatory new history, Director of Pompeii Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares the untold stories that are at last emerging.
Pompeii is a world frozen in time. There are unmade beds, dishes left drying, tools abandoned by workmen, bodies embracing with love and fear. And alongside the remnants of everyday life, there are captivating works of art: lifelike portraits, exquisite frescos and mosaics, and the extraordinary sculpture of a sleeping boy, curled up under a blanket that's too small.
The Buried City reconstructs the catastrophe that destroyed Pompeii on 24 August 79 CE, but it also offers a behind-the-scenes tour of the city as it was before: who lived here, what mattered to them, and what happened in their final hours. It offers us a vivid sense of Pompeii's continuing relevance, and proves that ancient history is much closer to us than we think.
Relax 3/2026
RELAX je skvelý lifestyle magazín zameraný na aktívny životný štýl, cestovanie, zdravie, šport, wellbeing, gastronómiu a inšpiratívne príbehy ľudí a značiek. Prináša kvalitný redakčný obsah, tipy na voľný čas, rozhovory, reportáže, trendy a odporúčania pre čitateľov, ktorí chcú žiť aktívne, zdravo a naplno. Magazín prepája prémiový obsah s autentickými zážitkami a oslovuje široké spektrum čitateľov hľadajúcich inšpiráciu pre každodenný život, oddych aj nové dobrodružstvá.
Mona Acts Out
An exuberant, darkly humorous novel by the US National Book Award-shortlisted author of Fieldwork Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on the morning of Thanksgiving to the clamour of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of dread: her in-laws are lurking on the other side of the bedroom door; she has been fighting with her husband; and in just a few weeks she will begin rehearsals to play Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, the most challenging role of her career. On an impulse, and pretending she needs to do some last-minute shopping, Mona leaves her family and heads out into the city to visit her estranged mentor, Milton Katz, the legendary director who has been forced out of the theatre company he founded amid accusations of sexual misconduct. Mona’s escape turns into an overnight adventure that brings her face-to-face with her past, with her creative power and its limitations, and ultimately, with all the people she has ever loved. At once funny and sad and wise, Mona Acts Out is a deeply moving novel about acting and telling the truth, about how we all play roles to negotiate our lives, and how the great roles teach us how to live. Praise for MISCHA BERLINSKIMona Acts Out ‘An instant-classic New York novel about theater, aging, sex and love’ Joshua Cohen, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning The Netanyahus ‘Berlinski deserves a standing ovation for this bravura performance.’ Publishers Weekly ‘Wonderfully constructed, witty, warm, wise, and filled with an extraordinary sense of the relation between theater and life’ Kirkus Reviews Peacekeeping ‘Powerfully intelligent . . . There's magic in the way that Mr. Berlinski, in command of fact and emotion, pilots this big novel safely home.’ – Dwight Garner, New York Times ‘Formidable’ James Wood, New Yorker ‘Marvelous’ Washington Post Fieldwork ‘Gripping and entertaining...you know you're in the hands of a writer to whom the novel form is, when all's said, as natural as an old overcoat... A quirky, often brilliant debut, bounced along by limitless energy’ – Hilary Mantel in the New York Review of Books 'A killer novel... A great story... You can't stop reading.' Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly ‘This is storytelling of the highest quality: richly entertaining, intelligent and anchored in a deep sense of humanity’ – Tash Aw, Guardian
Filthy Rich
SO SHOCKING IT WASN'T ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED - AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE UK. The book behind the headlines. The story the powerful hoped would disappear. Written by the world's bestselling storyteller James Patterson, this is the original and definitive account of how Epstein built his fortune, abused his power, and evaded justice for years - hiding in plain sight among the global elite. Drawing on original police interviews, court documents and victims' testimonies, the book traces the earliest investigations, Epstein's guilty plea and the shockingly lenient sentence that allowed his crimes to continue. Filthy Rich is also a chilling examination of how power protects itself - and how institutions failed those most vulnerable. An instant New York Times bestseller and the basis of the hit Netflix documentary series, this updated edition includes a new introduction covering Epstein's final arrest and death in custody.
Heatwave
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A teeming chronicle of those scorching months. Superbly researched.' THE TIMES'Scorching, animated and essential reading. Superb.' THE MAIL ON SUNDAY'Grippingly captures the three months that shook Britain's cultural landscape' PAULINE BLACK'Scorching, seething and scintillating, Heatwave conjures a slow-burning collage of a country on the brink. I lived through those cruel months, and Williams recreates them with intense skill' SIMON GARFIELD'An absolute joy' PETE PAPHIDES'Engrossing...powerful...goes way beyond nostalgia' DAVID KYNASTONWith temperatures soaring to 35oC, severe water shortages and a sunburned population queuing at the standpipes, the summer of 1976 was always remembered as Britain's hottest. But the wave that hit the UK that year was also cultural and political, with upheaval on the streets, in parliament, on the cricket pitch and on the radios and TV sets of a nation at a crossroads. Before this blistering summer, Britain seemed stuck in the post-war era, a country where people were all in it together - as long as you were white, male and straight. In July, Tom Robinson writes a song called Glad to be Gay, and by August bank holiday, Black youth are making the police run for their lives in the almighty riot at the Notting Hill Carnival. But with the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson suddenly quitting, the pound sinking and the economy tanking, a restless immigrant population and increasing dissatisfaction in the old world order, the weather seemed to boil up the country to the point where the lid blows off. Weaving a rich tapestry of the news stories of the year, with social commentary and dozens of first-person interviews with those that were there at the time, Williams's reappraisal of the summer of '76 is an evocative, sometimes nostalgic but always an unflinching read. Heatwave takes us back to relive the events of that summer and asks - have we really moved on as much as we would have liked?
Až tě zabiju
Nell je přesvědčena o tom, že ji někdo sleduje. Někdo, kdo zná její temné tajemství. O čtrnáct let dříve se ještě jako Elle zapletla do vyšetřování vraždy a její posedlost dopadením vraha měla za následek sérii lidských tragédií. Teď se pod identitou Nell snaží utéct před nepříjemnou minulostí, ale současnost je ještě děsivější. V okolí jejího přítele Alexe totiž došlo k velmi znepokojivým událostem. Nell nebude mít klid, dokud se stalkerovi nepodívá do tváře. I s rizikem, že ji ten pohled může stát život.
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Diddly Squat: The Farmers Dog
Uncooperative animals, underperforming crops, and rather less than best-laid plans pursued with unbridled enthusiasm. Clarkson's farm is the gift that keeps on giving.
But, as one overseas visitor* admitted, he only came to Diddly Squat because he just didn't believe that Jeremy could be so incompetent.
Not one to be discouraged, however, our hero decides to bring his misunderstood entrepreneurial flair to bear on a new venture: a pub. And just a few short weeks later, the doors open on The Farmer's Dog.
All British produce, Hawkstone beer on tap, a private bar for farmers and a vintage tractor hanging from the ceiling. The perfect country pub. A welcome distraction from sustainable farming initiatives, psychedelic wheat, angry protests in central London and a headbutting goat.
What, you may be asking, could possibly go wrong?
On top of the lavatories packing up and the electricity running out, you mean? As the Cotwolds' newest publican quickly discovers, there's a lot more to landlording than pulling pints.
Just as well, then, that he still has Lisa, Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald to help him through. Especially now his doctor's told him he's got to become a vegetablist …
*along with the whole of the rest of China, apparently
Anna Atkins Cyanotypes.
At the dawn of the Victorian era in her open-air laboratory in Halstead, Kent, Anna Atkins embarked on a radical experiment to document botanical species using a completely new artistic medium. The inimitable cyanotype photograms of algae and ferns she created were made into the first books to feature photographic images. Striking yet ethereal, these albums are a perfect synthesis of art and science.
Although the cyanotype technique was discovered by her friend John Herschel, Atkins was the first to realize both its practical purpose for her own interests in botany and taxonomy, and its intriguing artistic potential. The process, which involved fixing the object on sensitized paper and exposing it directly to sunlight, results in the Prussian blue pigment that forms the unmistakeable backdrop to these artworks.
Atkins' albums British Algae (1843-1853) and Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853), the latter of which was produced with her friend Anne Dixon, are works of remarkable rarity. They reveal her mastery of multiple disciplines: While the cyanotype process allowed Atkins to meet the challenges of accurate representation, the delicate contours of the specimens, set above the intense blue background, has lent the images a timeless aesthetic appeal.
This edition, drawing extensively from the copies of the New York Public Library and J. Paul Getty Museum, has carefully compiled cyanotypes from several sources to reprint Atkins' seminal works. Almost 400 cyanotype impressions are accompanied by a series of introductory essays from Peter Walther, placing Atkins' work in its scientific and art-historical contexts and paying rightful tribute to the groundbreaking contributions of a female pioneer.
Plavkyňa
DÍVAJ SA LEPŠIE
Spoločensky neobratná Chloe Cooperová trávi čas venčením psov, prácou za barovým pultom, starostlivosťou o svoju chorú matku a z bezpečnej vzdialenosti aj pozorovaním ľudí, pričom si vymýšľa príbehy o ich životoch. Zaujmú ju tiež jej noví susedia: známa influencerka Jemma Spenglerová a jej manžel Adam, renomovaný chirurg. Sú atraktívni, bohatí a ich dom s veľkými oknami bez žalúzií je pre ňu priam neodolateľným lákadlom.
Sťahovanie na severozápad Pacifiku má byť pre Jemmu a Adama novým začiatkom, obnoveným záväzkom manželstva, ktoré narušili problémy a tajomstvá. Šancou vyrovnať sa s tragickými stratami z minulosti. Jemme však tento nový začiatok prináša aj znepokojivý pocit, že ju niekto sleduje.
V jedno hmlisté ráno na pláži sa Chloe stane svedkom vraždy plavkyne. Skrsne v nej podozrenie a na svojich susedov sa začína pozerať v novom, oveľa temnejšom svetle. No keď sa prípadu chopí detektívka a jej kolega, ukáže sa, že nič nie je také, ako sa na prvý pohľad zdá. Pretože nielen Spenglerovci skrývajú tajomstvá. A nielen Chloe niekoho pozoruje.
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Japonsko na tanieri
Kompletný sprievodca japonskou kuchyňou a etiketou
Ak hľadáte autentický a jedinečný kulinársky zážitok, ale neviete, kde začať, bedeker Japonsko na tanieri je pre vás tou správnou voľbou. Nájdete v ňom podrobnosti o miestnych jedlách a tradíciách, ale aj praktické informácie o súčasných obľúbených gurmánskych štvrtiach vo všetkých kútoch Japonska. Užijete si vďaka nemu pestrú miestnu gastronómiu, dozviete sa niečo o regionálnych špecialitách, ktoré sa naozaj oplatí vyskúšať, spoznáte základy japonskej etikety a aj niekoľko základných fráz, ktoré vám pomôžu v miestnych suši baroch, izakajach aj luxusných reštauráciách.
Vizuálne príťažlivý a praktický sprievodca umožní cestovateľom a zároveň milovníkom jedla dokonale sa pripraviť a vyťažiť zo svojej cesty maximum.
Z anglického originálu preložila Eva Budjačová.
Bourbon a lži
V kentuckom meste Fiasco existuje len jedno pravidlo: Nikdy sa nezamiluj do niektorého z bratov Foxxovcov.
Každá žena, ktorá ho neposlúchla, na to doplatila – aspoň tak sa povráva. Miestni to nazývajú kliatbou. Lenže ja som ju pocítil na vlastnej koži. A druhý raz by som to neprežil.
Už nie som policajt, no zažil som dosť nebezpečenstva na to, aby som vedel, že Laney Youngová, krásna cudzinka, ktorá sa zjavila v mojom mestečku, pred ním uteká. Klam? o tom, odkiaľ prišla aj čo tu robí.
Nechcem, aby sa motala okolo mojej rodiny ani narúšala tichý život, čo som si tu vybudoval. Lenže moji bratia majú iné plány.
Teraz ju vídam všade – pracuje v mojom liehovare, býva v našom hosťovskom dome, volá ma „kovboj“ a nahá sa kúpe v mojom napájadle pre kone.
Lenže vďaka jej podrezanému jazyku začínam túžiť po veciach, ktorých som sa zriekol už dávno. Mal by som sa jej vyhýbať, zabudnúť na to, ako chutia jej krásne pery, a ignorovať, že vďaka nej opäť po niečom túžim.
Keď sa do mesta prihrnie jej minulosť a zapletie sa s mojou, jej lži sa začnú odhaľovať. Na pravidlách už nezáleží. Pokašľal som to, priveľmi sa v tom vŕtala a nechal ju, aby sa mi dostala pod kožu.
Teraz ju udržia nažive len dve veci: BOURBON A LŽI
Posledný úsvit
Jedno leto. Jedno zničujúce tajomstvo. A láska, ktorá všetko zmení.
Prehnaná starostlivosť matky a vážne zdravotné problémy vytvárajú v dvadsaťtriročnej Oriah Perovej pocit uväznenia. Keď jej matka dostane prácu na Malorke, Oriah vycíti, že toto leto by mohlo byť začiatkom jej vlastného príbehu o dospievaní. Počas svojej prvej malej rebélie sa vyberie sama na pláž, kde stretne charizmatického Španiela Juliána. V jeho prítomnosti sa cíti ešte naivnejšie a neskúsenejšie než zvyčajne, ale rastúca príťažlivosť v nej čoskoro prebudí dávno potlačenú životnú energiu.
Julian postupne vťahuje Oriah do dobrodružstiev, po ktorých vždy túžila. No tajomstvo, ktoré si mladá žena stráži hlboko v srdci a jej blížiaci sa návrat do Ameriky vrhajú tieň na ich spoločne strávené chvíle. Oriah sa musí rozhodnúť: má dosť odvahy, aby konečne nasledovala svoje srdce a začala žiť pre seba?
Zábavné krížovky pre seniorov
Radi relaxujete pri šálke dobrého čaju alebo kávy a lúštite švédske krížovky? Na stránkach tejto knihy nájdete švédske krížovky, ktoré obsahujú zábavné a poučné tajničky a odhaľujú množstvo zaujímavých faktov. Stačí vziať do ruky ceruzku a baviť sa.
