Ta kategoria dedykowana jest współczesnym czytelniczkom literatury kobiecej. Bardzo szeroki wybór romansów, kryminałów, powieści obyczajowe, poruszająca literatura kobieca, erotyki, harlequiny polskich i zagranicznych autorów. Każda lubiąca czytać kobieta znajdzie coś szczególnego dla siebie.
Polecamy literaturę Sergiusza Piaseckiego, Stanisława Srokowskiego, Diany Palmer czy w końcu Blanki Lipińskiej.
In Emily Brontë’s only novel, the passion of Catherine and Heathcliff is as wild as the moors surrounding their childhood home, Wuthering Heights. This dark tale of love and loss, power and possession, action and terrifying reaction, stands as one of the greatest works of fiction in the English language.
This book has matching lined and blank journals (sold separately). They make a great gift when paired together but are also just as beautiful on their own.
Nie mam pewności, czy zapiski ojca, które pośpiesznie czytałem, jeszcze zanim odszedł, a które potem czytałem uważniej, bez pośpiechu, istotnie świadczyły o ambitnym zamiarze wepchnięcia do książki całego świata. Być może wyczytałem z nich więcej, niż zawierały, może skrywały impuls, i to on wyzwolił we mnie nienazwaną potrzebę, tak czy owak z pewnością nie zamierzałem drwić z takiego zamiaru, bynajmniej, sam zacząłem myśleć o czymś podobnym, może (choć niekoniecznie) na mniejszą skalę. Zastanawiałem się, czy próba opisania jednej rozległej dziedziny na kilkudziesięciu czy nawet kilkuset stronach (kilkaset zawsze zdawało mi się niedosiężną objętością) musi być skazana na porażkę. Czy może się udać próba zamknięcia między okładkami wielkiej historii motywów i wątków, tematów, które tworzą nieoczywiste konfiguracje, przez co zyskują nowe znaczenia. I pomyślałem, że ułomnym i wtórnym sposobem jest sprowadzenie rozległej dziedziny do jednego elementu. Ot, choćby sprowadzenie historii literatury do jednej książki. Całego życia do jednej lub kilku scen. Jak Schwob zrobił z życiem Uccella, jak z życiem Uccella obszedł się Artaud, a z życiem Billyego Kida Borges. Detal, w którym zmieściła się całość. Zuchwałość opowiadania, które skupia się na drobince piasku, by zobaczyć w niej wszechświat. Świat zamknięty w co prawda nienaturalnie dużym, ale jednak pojedynczym drzewie.
Tytułowa Panna Julie, młoda hrabianka, pragnie wyrwać się z dławiącego ją konwenansu arystokratycznego życia. W dzień przesilenia letniego rzuca się w wir dorocznej zabawy służby, a finalnie w ramiona lokaja Jeana. Nie przewiduje nadciągającej katastrofy.
Prezentujemy powstały w 1888 roku klasyk – dramat naturalistyczny o władzy, pożądaniu i walce płci – w nowym, współczesnym tłumaczeniu Mariusza Kalinowskiego.
„Ten tekst jest znakomicie skonstruowany. […] U Strindberga pod powierzchnią słów i akcji istnieje ukryta siatka znaczeń i możliwości gry toczącej się pomiędzy postaciami. Ta gra, choć precyzyjnie zaplanowana, jest możliwa do poprowadzenia na wiele różnych sposobów. […] Ono [nowe, współczesne tłumaczenie – przyp. red.] dodało tekstowi Panny Julie nowy odcień, z którego wcześniej nie zdawałem sobie sprawy. Przywróciło też dosadność języka Strindberga – mówiącego wprost i nie stroniącego od ostrych określeń”.
Z wywiadu z reżyserem Piotrem Łazarkiewiczem („GW Trójmiasto”, 2005)
'Slices through the confusion and the contradictions with grace and compassion. I cannot say good enough things about it.' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN'Be prepared for compassionate and bracingly independent thinking' - THE TIMES, best books of 2025From autism to allergies, ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions than ever before. But can a diagnosis do us more harm than good? The boundaries between sickness and health are being redrawn. Mental health categories are shifting and expanding all the time, radically altering what we consider to be 'normal'. Genetic tests can now detect pathologies decades before people experience symptoms, and sometimes before they're even born. And increased health screening draws more and more people into believing they are unwell. An accurate diagnosis can bring greater understanding and of course improved treatment. But many diagnoses aren't as definitive as we think. And in some cases they risk turning healthy people into patients. Drawing on the stories of real people, as well as decades of clinical practice and the latest medical research, Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan overturns long held assumptions and reframes how we think about illness and health.
Od przyjaciół do kochanków, od kochanków do śmiertelnych wrogów - Samantha Young porywa wielowarstwową, hipnotyzującą powieścią o miłości, która pali za sobą wszystkie mosty.Jane Doe tuła się po rodzinach zastępczych, rozpaczliwie szukając odrobiny ciepła. Gdy poznaje Lornę i jej przystojnego brata Jamiego, ma wrażenie, że wygrała los na loterii. Wreszcie czuje, że ma dom.Jest tylko jeden warunek, Lorna postawiła sprawę bardzo jasno: Jane nie wolno zakochać się w Jamiem. Problem w tym, że to już się stało. A ich uczucie pochłonie wszystko.Lata później, po tym, jak ich świat legł w gruzach, Jamie jest gotów wyrównać rachunki z każdym, kto w niezwykłym i magicznym, a jednocześnie mrocznym i pełnym przemocy Hollywood skrzywdził jego samego i jego rodzinę.Lista jest długa, a na samym jej szczycie znajduje się Jane.I nawet dawne, ale wciąż żywe uczucie nie skłoni go, by okazał jej litość.
'We are all time-travellers, journeying togetehr into the future. Be brave. Be determined. Let's work together to make that future a place we want to visit.'
Based on Professor Hawking's 2018 Earth Day address, this inspiring picture asks children everywhere to look up and wonder at the world around them - just as Professor Hawking did his whole life. Including questions and answers to some big science topics, perfectly explained for young readers by Professor Hawking's daughter, Lucy, and beautifully illustrated by Xin Li, this is the perefct read for curious minds.
A groundbreaking new history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of a modern Europe.
The determined attempt to thwart Ottoman dominance was fought across five theaters from the Balkans to the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, from Persia to Russia. This intercontinental melee is expertly re-told in this fascinating new history by historian Si Sheppard.
But this is not the story of a clash of civilizations between East and West as you might assume. Europe was not united against the Turks; the scandal of the age was the alliance between King Francis I of France and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Meanwhile, the resistance of the Saadi dynasty of Morocco to Ottoman encroachment played a critical role in denying Constantinople direct access to the Atlantic Ocean. By the same token, though religious imperatives were critical to the motivations of all the key actors involved, these in no way fell neatly along the Christian Muslim divide. Crescent Dawn expertly shows how the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V desired nothing more than to eradicate the Protestant heresy metastasizing throughout his domains, but the threat of Turkish invasion forced him to stay his hand and indulge his Lutheran subjects to ensure a common defense. Nevertheless, the collective effort to constrain the expansion of the Ottoman superpower did succeed with the ultimate victory in 1571 the tipping point in reordering the trajectory of history.
Crescent Dawn features some of the legendary figures of the era – from Mehmet the Conqueror, and Suleiman the Magnificent on the Ottoman side, to Charles V and Vasco de Gama on the other – and some of the most exotic locales on Earth – from the sumptuous palaces of Constantinople to the bloody battlefields of the Balkans to the awe-inspiring mountains of Ethiopia. This is a colorful history that brings the great battles of the age to life and clearly shows how the western struggle against the Ottomans constituted the first truly world war.
When schoolteacher Tom Michell pulls a penguin from an oil slick off the coast of Uruguay he has no idea what to do.
Back at his apartment, Tom cleans him, but upon returning to the beach the penguin refuses to return to the ocean. Tom has one option: to smuggle the penguin over the Argentinian border to the prestigious boarding school Tom calls home.
There follows a heart-warming story of one remarkable penguin, who adapts to boarding school life. Whether it's as team mascot or swimming coach extraordinaire - Juan Salvador the penguin transforms the lives of all he meets.
1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block.
1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman’s cottage for sale on the Dorset coast.
1941. Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers’ retreat, a refuge from war, and a means of becoming ‘a writer again’.
Rural Hours tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the country and was forever changed by it.
We encounter them at quiet moments – pausing to look at an insect on the windowsill; jotting down a recipe; or digging for potatoes, dirt beneath their nails. Slowly, we start to see transformations unfold. Invigorated by new landscapes, and the daily trials and small pleasures of making homes, they emerge from long periods of creative uncertainty and private disappointment; they embark on new experiments in form, in feeling and in living. In the country, each woman finds her path: to convalescence and recovery; to sexual and political awakening; and, above all, to personal freedom and creative flourishing.
Graceful, fluid, and enriched by previously untouched archival material, Rural Hours is both a paean to the bravery and vision of three pioneering writers, and a passionate invitation to us all: to recognize the radical potential of domestic life and rural places, and find new enchantment in the routines and rituals of each day.
Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces – communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the mental health emergency hitting teenagers today in many countries around the world.
In The Anxious Generation, Haidt shows how, between 2010 and 2015, childhood and adolescence got rewired. As teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones packed with social media apps, time online soared, including time spent comparing oneself to a vast pool of others. Time engaging face-to-face with friends and family plummeted, and so did mental health.
But this is not just a story about technology; this profound shift took place against a backdrop of declining childhood freedom and free-play, as parents over-supervised every aspect of their children’s lives offline, depriving them of the experiences they most need to become strong and self-governing adults.
In this book, Haidt makes a compelling argument that the loss of play-based childhood and its replacement with a phone-based childhood that is not suitable for human development is the source of increased mental distress among teenagers. The Anxious Generation delves into the latest psychological and biological research to show the four fundamental ways in which a phone-based childhood disrupts development – sleep deprivation, social deprivation, cognitive fragmentation and addiction. Haidt offers separate in-depth analyses of what has happened to girls, and what has happened to boys, offering practical advice for parents, schools, governments, and teens themselves. Drawing on ancient wisdom and cutting-edge research, this eye-opening book is a life raft and a powerful call-to-arms.
Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world.
‘An astonishing book about an extraordinary subject' PETER FRANKOPAN
'As thrilling as it is sweeping' TOM HOLLAND
'This book dazzles in its originality . . . a triumph’ SATHNAM SANGHERA
In 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain’s southern shoreline - and so sparked a crisis that would engulf science and religion for the next six decades. By its end, the literal reading of the Bible had been overturned, science had been liberated from religion and the secular age had begun. Impossible Monsters takes us into the lives and minds of the extraordinary men and women whose discovery of the dinosaurs revolutionised our understanding of the world, as well as those who resisted them and those, like Charles Darwin, who took great risks to construct a new account of the earth’s and mankind’s origins. It is the riveting story of a group of people who dared to think impossible things and then showed them to be true.
‘Truly marvellous ... an intellectual thriller’ RICHARD HOLMES
‘A stunning work ... of surprises and revelations’ STEVE BRUSATTE
WHAT YOU MAKE MATTERS.
From Amie McNee, the voice behind Inspired to Write, a manifesto on the vital, human importance of creating, with guidance for all artists in all endeavours, whether they're starting their journey or seeking a fresh perspective.
In We Need Your Art, Amie McNee calls artists and aspiring artists of all kinds to do the work they’re meant to do: create.
Using her own experiences as a novelist and the inspiration she’s shared as a creative coach, Amie guides you on why we need your art and how you can make it happen - starting with a two-week reset plan to help you kick-start your creative habit. This isn’t about writing your great novel in a month or painting a masterpiece in a flurry of inspiration. Rather, this process is about practicing small, sustainable creative steps every day over time - five hundred words of writing each day, a pencil sketch every evening - so that you avoid burnout, produce consistent, reliable content on your own terms, and begin to see yourself as an artist.
With frank and empowering conversations on the many issues creatives face, including impostor syndrome, perfectionism, procrastination, and the inner critic, as well as invitations to coronate yourself and celebrate your ambition, Amie provides the framework and encouragement you need to begin to take your art seriously. Each chapter also includes journal prompts that help you apply what you have learned to your new life.
We Need Your Art is a revolutionary reprogramming of everything we have been taught and told about being a creative, removing the shame and fear we may feel at dubbing ourselves artists and inviting us to create proudly, with celebration. This book is a warm hug, a pep talk, the wise teacher you always wanted, the loving parent you needed, and the fire in your belly that you need to get roaring.
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