A powerful novel from the award-winning author, it paints a provocative portrait of contemporary Nigeria.

"The Lighthouse: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery" von P. D. James ist ein spannender Kriminalroman, der den berühmten Ermittler Commander Adam Dalgliesh in einen neuen Fall verwickelt. Die Geschichte spielt auf Combe Island, einem abgelegenen...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967...

"Other Paris: An Illustrated Journey Through a City's Poor and Bohemian Past" von Luc Sante ist eine faszinierende Erkundung der weniger bekannten Seiten von Paris, abseits der glanzvollen Boulevards und berühmten Wahrzeichen. Sante...

"Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall" von Kazuo Ishiguro ist eine Sammlung von fünf miteinander verbundenen Kurzgeschichten, die sich um die Themen Musik und Vergänglichkeit drehen. Jede Geschichte beleuchtet verschiedene...

'If there's one thing I hate,' I said to the beautiful woman on the airplane, 'it's meeting a beautiful woman on an airplane.' However, when the beautiful woman in question suddenly disappears into thin air and Kinky is left holding her...

Paperback edition of this wonderful collection of four festive crime stories, published together for the first time from the late Queen of Crime.

Kurzbeschreibung Dylan Weinberg, an eleven-year-old boy with a rare form of autism, is missing. A stock market wizard, he can only utter one word, 'Schnay'. Kinky takes the case but he faces a dilemma when Lucky, a cat from his aunt...

'Best book of the century.' Richard Osman 'Just wonderful.' Jan Morris 'A marvel.' Zadie Smith 'Every bit as superb as everyone says.' Sarah Perry Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliott...

Before CSI, there was one man who saw beyond the crime, and into the future of forensic science. He was once one of the most famous people in Britain, and, through his use of cutting-edge science, Bernard Spilsbury single-handedly...

These everyday exultations and inspirations will get you through dismal days. Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown, finds calm in solo cinema trips, is...

By turns elegiac and highly comical, THE WIDOW'S TALE conjures up this most defiantly unapologetic of narrators as she begins to pick over the wreckage of her life and decide what has real value and what she should leave behind. As a...