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While he was the historian at the esteemed CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime American intelligence officer, former U.S. Marine colonel, and Oxford-trained historian, began to uncover clues suggesting...

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The extraordinary story of the one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters...

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Now is probably as good a time as any to make a full confession. . .Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Praise for Nomad: 'Funniest book of the year' Sunday Telegraph' Alan Partridge's Nomad is almost certainly the funniest book ever written' Caitlin Moran' Sensationally funny...

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2020 marks 250 years since Beethoven's birth. Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius...

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Leonardo da Vinci lived an itinerant life. Throughout his career – from its beginnings in the creative maelstrom of fifteenth century Florence to his role as genius in residence at the court of the king of France ...

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Josef Hoffmann’s pioneering minimalism. Before aesthete, designer, and architect Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) came along, Austrian architecture and design was suffocating under a surfeit of opulent ornamentation and bombastic flourish...

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Philip Roth - one of the most renowned writers of his generation - hardly needs introduction. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral, ...

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Since the publication of her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou has been celebrated as one of America's most important writers and her words are indelibly imprinted on the hearts of millions...

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From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four...

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„Franz Kafka byl Praha a Praha byla Franz Kafka“, napsal kdysi Johannes Urzidil. A skutečně, kdo se vydá po stopách života Franze Kafky, toho cesta zavede přímo do srdce starého císařského města nad Vltavou.

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Je legendárním knížetem malířů art nouveau, zakladatelem vídeňské Secese. Jeho obrazy dosahují na aukcích rekordních cen. Tváře dam z jeho slavných portrétů září z kávových šálků a deštníků a ti, kdo neumějí pojmenovat...

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A portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest sculptors from one of our most eminent art historians...

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In the late 50s and 60s, American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) became one of the most important exponents of Pop Art - that movement which transformed products of mass consumption and the entertainment industry into subjects for art...

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Ex-infantryman and reconnaissance officer, author and humorist Patrick Ryan is perhaps best remembered for this acerbically comic novel - first published in 1963 and quickly adapted into a 1967 feature film by Richard Lester, ...

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Published to accompany a headline exhibition at the V&A, this book is the definitive celebration of the extraordinary photographic career of Horst P. Horst (1906 - 99). One of Vogue's most prolific and creative contributors, Horst worked in Paris and...

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Rejected by his family and hounded by a scandalized society for his interest in young girls, he laced his drawings and paintings with fierce expressions of sexuality and death...

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From The 400 Blows to Jules and Jim to The Last Metro, François Truffaut (1932-1984) practically defined the French cinema of his era and was one of the founders of the New Wave which took the industry by storm in the late 1950s...

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Kelly Bishop’s long, storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, including her Tony Award–winning performance in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line and her memorable appearance as Jennifer Grey’s mother in Dirty Dancing, but...

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An astonishing memoir of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child, and an exquisite meditation on memory and trauma...

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