Delhi's power circles are shocked to discover that ex-RAW chief Sadiq Sheikh has been murdered. Kabir Anand is settling into his new life as a professor of Shakespeare studies in Mumbai, when a call from the PMO thrusts him back into the...

Das Buch "Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History" von Eduardo Galeano ist eine einzigartige Sammlung von Geschichten und Anekdoten aus der Menschheitsgeschichte. Jeder Tag des Jahres wird mit einer Geschichte oder einem...

Having joined the Financial Timesin 2000 in Shanghai and being appointed China bureau chief in 2005, Richard McGregor is now Washington Bureau Chief for the FT. McGregor has won numerous awards throughout his nearly two decades of...

Raised in a haunted house, Roger Clarke is best known as a film-writer for the Independent newspaper and more recently Sight & Sound. He was the youngest person ever to join the Society for Psychical Research in the 1980s and was getting...

"Confessions of a Working Girl: A True Story" von Miss S ist eine fesselnde und aufschlussreiche Autobiographie, die das Leben einer Frau in der Sexindustrie enthüllt. Das Buch folgt der Autorin durch ihre Reise vom Beginn ihrer Karriere...

A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these...

"A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig & Other Essays" von Charles Lamb ist eine Sammlung humorvoller und scharfsinniger Essays, die sich hauptsächlich mit kulinarischen Themen befassen. In dem bekanntesten Essay, "A Dissertation Upon Roast...

More than fifteen centuries after its fall, the Roman Empire remains one of the most formative influences on the history of Europe. Its physical remains dot the landscape from Scotland to Syria. Its cities are still the great...

Writer, journalist and traveller, Sylvain Tesson is France's 'most brilliant travel writer' (L'Express). After a world tour by bicycle in 1993-1994, he developed a passion for Central Asia, and in 1997 he crossed the Himalayas on foot....

"The Scottish Nation: A Modern History" von T. M. Devine ist eine umfassende Studie über die Geschichte Schottlands vom frühen 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Das Buch analysiert den Übergang Schottlands von einer ländlichen und...

Die "Penguin The Long Earth - 5 Book Collection" ist eine Sammlung von fünf Büchern aus der Reihe "The Long Earth", geschrieben von Terry Pratchett und Stephen Baxter. Die Serie spielt in einer Zukunft, in der die Menschheit die...

Tells the story of an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu, of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess, of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, and of high adventure and...