"Pulphead: Notes from the Other Side of America" ist eine Sammlung von Essays des amerikanischen Autors John Jeremiah Sullivan. In diesem Buch nimmt Sullivan die Leser mit auf eine Reise durch verschiedene Aspekte der zeitgenössischen...

“I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn...

In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment. These are people for whom the idea of ‘home’ has become increasingly intangible,...

Benn argues that there has been an unrecognised social revolution centering on experience of motherhood versus society's ideas of women's lives in the 90s. Whilst women are supposed to have it all there is a gap between women's...

Some things are easier to forget than others... Detective Inspector Ray Lennox has fled to Miami to escape the aftermath of a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a harrowing child-sex murder case back...

She will breathe a new empire into life – but all worlds can escape their creator… ‘Mesmerising…an epic tribute to the power of words’ ELIF SHAFAK ‘Full of adventure… A celebration of the power of storytelling’ GUARDIAN In the wake of an...

"Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero" von Grant Morrison ist eine faszinierende Untersuchung der kulturellen und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung von Superhelden. Morrison, selbst ein renommierter Comic-Autor, analysiert die...

"On Chesil Beach" von Ian McEwan ist eine Novelle, die im Jahr 1962 spielt und sich um das junge Ehepaar Florence Ponting und Edward Mayhew dreht. Die Geschichte beginnt am Abend ihrer Hochzeitsnacht in einem Hotel an der Küste von...

"The Internationals" von Sarah May ist ein Roman, der sich mit den komplexen Dynamiken und Herausforderungen des internationalen Lebens auseinandersetzt. Die Geschichte folgt einer Gruppe von Menschen aus verschiedenen Ländern, die in...

**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...

Meet Sadie Smith: seductive, cunning and going undercover – the Booker-shortlisted, wickedly entertaining New York Times bestseller ‘Hugely enjoyable’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Wonderfully seductive’ ALAN HOLLINGHURST ‘Really fantastic – get it!’...

Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer – and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic. 'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story... Pale Rider is not just an...