"The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: Bilingual Edition" von Robert Hass ist eine sorgfältig kuratierte Sammlung der bemerkenswertesten Werke des berühmten deutschsprachigen Dichters Rainer Maria Rilke. Das Buch präsentiert eine...

A highly original book which exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy in the Victorian period, and the dark motivations behind them... von Wise, Sarah

Described by Oliver Sacks as 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time', Robert M. Sapolsky here presents the human animal in all its quirkiness and diversity. In these remarkable essays, Sapolsky once again deploys his compassion...

"The Scatter Here is Too Great" ist eine Sammlung von miteinander verbundenen Kurzgeschichten des pakistanischen Autors Bilal Tanweer. Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit den komplexen und oft gewalttätigen Realitäten des Lebens in der Stadt...

"Crying in H Mart" ist eine bewegende Memoire von Michelle Zauner, die auch als Indie-Pop-Musikerin Japanese Breakfast bekannt ist. In dem Buch teilt sie ihre Erfahrungen als koreanisch-amerikanische Frau, die mit der Krankheit und dem...

"There are no photographs which can be denied. All photographs have the status of fact. What is to be examined is in what way photography can and cannot give meaning to facts." With these words, two of our most thoughtful and eloquent...

The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's homes and their stories, and in political discourse. It marks the birth of the nation,...

The complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) in one volume from Vintage Classics. The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wickstead translation, with full notes. Dante's Divine Comedy relates the...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2021* 'A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden' Daily Mail Marc Hamer has designed and nurtured 12...

In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman...

"Yellow Dog" ist ein satirischer Roman des britischen Autors Martin Amis. Die Geschichte konzentriert sich auf mehrere Charaktere, darunter den Schauspieler Xan Meo, der nach einer brutalen Prügelattacke seine Persönlichkeit verändert...

One of the most original American writers, Edgar Allan Poe shaped the development of both the detectvie story and the science-fiction story. Some of his poems-"The Raven," "The Bells," "Annabel Lee"-remain among the most popular in...