Some of My Favorite People Are Elephants is a collection of short stories chronicling the author's four years spent traveling with a traditional American circus in the mid-1980s--first as a musician, then (quite unintentionally) as an acrobat and flying trapeze artist.
Desde el lejano Saipán en las postrimerías del Japón imperial, a la Argentina, Memorias relata en primera persona una privilegiada visión de dos culturas contrapuestas que coexisten en la persona del autor quien, a través de un relato que superficialmente parece simple –palabras de "un anciano que ha decidido escribir"– nos transporta a tiempos, lugares y paradigmas ajenos al mundo actual.
Christian Mertens begegnet einer neuen – etwas ungewöhnlichen – Nachbarin, die ganz Ohr ist für seine Lebensgeschichte und auch all die anderen Themen, die ihn bewegen.
'An ideal summer read' EVENING STANDARD'Equal parts insightful and entertaining - whatever your take on influencers, Bad Influence is a great read' YOMI ADEGOKEOenone didn't set out to become an influencer.
Chronicling nearly nine decades of life and work on a Maine farm, this memoir by Will and Minnie Penney presents a wonderful look back at rural life before and during the Depression, in the heady post-war years, and late, as family farms began to give way to larger industrial farms.
A 2024 Book of the Year pick in the Economist, Independent, Prospect, Apollo, New Yorker and at WaterstonesA 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard'My favourite book of 2024.
The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to todayand the courageous countervoicesBetween 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies.
From a Yorkshire veterinarian and a “wise and wonderful writer”: The New York Times bestseller and basis for the beloved BBC series of the same name (The Boston Globe).
En un relato tan desgarrador como revelador, un medico argentino relata con brutal honestidad su recorrido desde los anos de estudio hasta el ejercicio profesional.
The Sunday Times bestsellerThe New York Times bestsellerGuardian Summer Reading Hottest Book PickThis is not just a book for people who follow politics, but for anyone who has ever doubted themselves, or wanted to make a difference.
