★Croatian rights has been sold!
★It is filled with celebrated, highly respected figures, and it introduces us in an engaging way to their hobbies, interests and leisure activities – from the most ordinary to the truly eccentric.
★The full English translation is available.

What did Albert Einstein or Marie Antoinette do for fun? In addition to thirty-three stories about the hobbies and pastimes of thirty-three famous individuals, this publication contains thirty-three impressive full-page illustrations by Czech and Slovak illustrators, some well known, some just starting out.

There’s nothing quite like a hobby to help us forget our worries. Favourite free-time activities do people the world of good – famous, brilliant people as well as the rest of us. Anyone who doubts this should take a look at this book.

About the Author:
Štěpánka Sekaninová spent her childhood near Kolín, in the Polabí lowlands region. Although she is a Bohemian at heart, fate carried her to the heart of Moravia. She is a graduate in Czech and History from the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. While still a student, she started work at Czech Television in Brno, where as a reporter she travelled about the South Moravia region and got to know every part of it. She later switched from reporting to the production of light entertainment and children’s programmes for the Brno studio.
Štěpánka loves books and has always longed to write, so when her life’s journey presented her with the opportunity to work as a literary editor, she accepted it with alacrity.
And so she writes, surrounded by beautiful books, realizing a dream she’s had since childhood...