Villa, Lake, Meeting: Wannsee & Final Solution
On 20 January 1942, the most murderous meeting in history took place. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared men in Germany, it summoned top Nazi officials to a grand villa on the shore of Berlin’s Lake...
Virginia Monologues: Why Growing Old is Great
Getting old? Get over it! For too long those in short skirts have been telling us oldies we don`t matter: `you`re out of touch! Get out of the way, grandma! The next generation is coming through`. Well, enough is...
Never before published in Kerouac`s lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddartha Gautama`s life and works. "Wake Up" recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha`s...
Contains: Ward No. 6, The Black Monk, The Grasshopper, The Two Volodyas, A Woman`s Kingdom, The Student, Three Years, Murder, Ariadna Chekhov believed that a writer should not provide solutions but should describe a...
Warrior of Rome: Fire in the East
The year is AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged along every border. The greatest threat lies in Persia to the east, where the massing forces of the Sassanid...
A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin`s "We" is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. This...
From bonding to bondage, from B&Q to Belarus, along with seven smelly cats, three useless handymen, two slimy estate agents, social workers, and a bonker lady, this is the story of a very unlikely friendship. Georgie...
