'One of the best opening lines of any novel' Guardian 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always...

"In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India" von Edward Luce bietet eine umfassende Analyse der sozialen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Transformationen Indiens im 21. Jahrhundert. Luce, ein ehemaliger Korrespondent der...

The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of...

TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged...

On a balmy summer's day in Oxford an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a cryptic anonymous note containing only the address and the symbol of a circle, Arthur Seldom, a leading mathematician,...

THE TWELFTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES The one where Mma Makutsi gets married . . . As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's big day begins, Violet Sephotho, her former rival for the affections of Phuti Radiphuti,...

In this rare personal investigation, His Holiness the Dalai Lama discusses his vision of science and faith working hand in hand to alleviate human suffering. Drawing on a lifetime of scientific study and religious practice, he explores...

"Morality for Beautiful Girls" ist der dritte Band in der beliebten Serie "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" von Alexander McCall Smith. Die Geschichte spielt in Botswana und folgt den Abenteuern von Mma Precious Ramotswe, der ersten...

'I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries... and The Survivors is the best yet. There are cave scenes that will freeze your blood' Stephen King 'Without doubt one of the finest crime writers at work today, a new Jane Harper novel...

"Sex and the City" von Candace Bushnell ist eine Sammlung von Kolumnen, die ursprünglich in der New York Observer erschienen sind. Das Buch bietet einen humorvollen und oft schonungslosen Blick auf das Leben und die Beziehungen einer...

The Drop follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a cover scheme of funelling cash to local gangsters -- 'money drops' -- in the underworld of Boston bars. Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv, Bob finds himself at...

A collection of surprising, disarming and 'extremely funny' essays from the internationally bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sunday Times) Santaland Diaries collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories...