Haunts of the Black Masseur is a dazzling introduction to the great swimming heroes: Byron leaping into the surf at Shelley's beach funeral, Hart Crane, swallow-diving to his death in the Bay of Mexico, Ulysses, Leander, Weismuller and...

Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut of one family's queer desires, violent impulses and buried secrets. One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger...

In her fourth literary travel companion, Alice Leccese Powers explores one of the most seductive regions of the world through more than two centuries of fiction, poetry, essays, letters, and memoirs by English-speaking visitors to...

"Saturday" von Ian McEwan ist ein Roman, der sich auf einen einzigen Tag im Leben von Henry Perowne konzentriert, einem erfolgreichen Neurochirurgen in London. Der Roman spielt an einem Samstag im Februar 2003 und beginnt mit Perownes...

'Dazzling... Profound and urgent' Observer 'A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday' Financial Times Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne,...

The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown Englishman 'This is not just a tale of trees, but of . . . endeavour, war and reconciliation' Sunday Times Collingwood Ingram,...

"This Year in Jerusalem" von Mordecai Richler ist ein autobiografisches Werk, das die persönlichen Erlebnisse und Eindrücke des Autors während seiner Reisen nach Israel schildert. Richler, ein kanadisch-jüdischer Schriftsteller, erkundet...

**HARRY HOLE IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES** 'The king of all crime writers' Sunday Express There's a new killer on the streets A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that...

Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, where fishermen are often lost to violent seas and children regularly swept away. It is the beautiful, haunting story of one little girl's...

"Der Verfall des öffentlichen Lebens" (Originaltitel: "The Fall of Public Man") von Richard Sennett ist ein soziologisches Werk, das sich mit der Transformation des öffentlichen und privaten Lebens in der modernen Gesellschaft...

"Push: A Novel" von Sapphire ist ein kraftvoller und erschütternder Roman, der die Geschichte von Claireece "Precious" Jones erzählt, einem afroamerikanischen Mädchen, das in Harlem lebt. Precious ist 16 Jahre alt, übergewichtig und...

A powerful and tragicomic blend of politics and personal destiny, Black Box records in a series of letters the wrecked marriage of Ilana and Alex. Seven years of silence following their bitter divorce is broken when Ilana writes to Alex...