"Thinly Disguised Autobiography" von James Delingpole ist ein humorvoller und scharfsinniger Rückblick auf das Leben des Autors. Delingpole teilt seine persönlichen Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen über verschiedene Aspekte seines Lebens,...

A novel in dramatic form - set to become a film staring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson von McCarthy, Cormac

It is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men who will come to work high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in America...

Originally published in Japan in 2019, it is the chronicle of how, in June 2018, 35-year-old Morimoto Shoji, known as "Rental Person”, started a peculiar service: he will do anything - seeing you off when moving, sharing a soda with you,...

A vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid: a cavalcade of organizations--some 37,000--compete for a share of the $160 billion annual prize. Polman argues that it is time to impose ethical boundaries, to question whether doing...

Praise for A Manual for Cleaning Women 'Only Carver's very final stories share Berlin's eye for the sudden exaltation in ordinary lives, or her ability to shift the tone of an entire story with an unexpected sentence.' Guardian 'An...

"The Picador Book of the Beach" ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, die sich alle um das Thema Strand drehen. Herausgegeben von Robert Drewe, beinhaltet das Buch Geschichten aus der Feder verschiedener Autoren, die jeweils ihre...

A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin. 'More marvellous musical stories from Lucia Berlin.' Sunday Express The publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia...

"The Men Who Stare At Goats" ist ein Sachbuch des britischen Journalisten Jon Ronson, das sich mit der Erforschung von paranormalen Phänomenen und psychologischer Kriegsführung durch das US-Militär befasst. Ronson untersucht eine Reihe...

"Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way" von Michael Bond ist ein faszinierendes Werk, das die menschliche Fähigkeit zur Navigation und Orientierung untersucht. Es verbindet Erkenntnisse aus verschiedenen...

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature Set in the 23rd century, The...

'A poignant, practical and moving story of how to fix our broken land, this should be conservation's salvation; this should be its future; this is a new hope' Chris Packham 'Every farmer (and perhaps every conservationist) in Britain...