Mit literarischen Beiträgen von Gabriele von Arnim, Zsuzsa Bánk, Marica Bodrožić, Isabel Bogdan, Ann Cotten, Mareike Fallwickl, Julia Friese, Olga Grjasnowa, Claudia Hamm, Stefanie Jaksch, Rasha Khayat, Christine Koschmieder, Jarka Kubsova, Daria Kinga Majewski, Maria-Christina Piwowarski, Judith Poznan, Slata Roschal, Caca Savić, Clara Schaksmeier und Simone ScharbertUnsere Leben verlaufen längst nicht so linear, wie Bücher sie oft erzählen.
THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE COUSINS WAR SERIES FROMSUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR, PHILIPPA GREGORYChild-bride of Edmund Tudor, although widowed in her early teens, is determined to infiltratethe house of York under the guise of loyal friend and servant.
2 Ennerdale Drive is a memoir of a house and the family that lived there; a work of text and image encompassing architecture, social and personal history, town planning, photography and representation, carving a space within and between new forms of memoir, cultural studies and creative non-fiction.
Part novel, part Pop artwork, Andy Warhol's a is an electrifying slice of life at his Factory studio'A work of genius' NewsweekIn the early 1960s, Andy Warhol set out to turn the novel into pop art.
'The beautiful illusion, when reading Tolstoy, is that one is looking directly at the world, as opposed to a depiction' Andrew O'Hagan from his preface to Childhood, Boyhood and YouthPublished in 1852, when he was just twenty-four, Childhood was Tolstoy's first published work, and the first of a trilogy of stories that evoke the upbringing and traditional education of a Russian aristocrat in a world that vanished with the revolution.
With a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Frieze editor Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White'Unforgettable, heartbreaking' New York Times'Brilliant' - Dazed'As brutal as it is elegant' - Neil Bartlett'Electrifying' - Colm Toibin'Dazzling' - Katherine AngelAfter being diagnosed with AIDS, Herve Guibert wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel, chronicling three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life.
A struggling writer journeys through the world of fan conventions, collectible merch and more in this satirical novel-a "e;searing critique of geek culture"e; (Washington Post).
Natsume Soseki, el más clásico de los autores del Japón moderno, despliega en Kokoro, a partir de una inteligente estructura narrativa, un poético y desolador viaje hacia la conciencia del protagonista.
In his novel based on the extraordinary life of the brother of Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Russell re-creates the rich and changing world in which Sergey, his family and friends lived; from wealth and position in pre-revolutionary Russia to the halls of Cambridge University and the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 There is laughter and joy to be found in these pages, along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in the snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing above them.
Die Geschichte einer Friseurin, die die Modewelt in Paris aufmischen will – und am Ende in ihrem kleinen Laden in Berlin die Formel für Schönheit neu erfindet.
THE NEW FIRST WORLD WAR SPY THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF THE GENRE'A masterful storyteller with an intricate knowledge of his subject' The Daily Telegraph 'Judd, a veteran spy novelist and former diplomat, knows his way around Britain's world of shadows.
The new novel from the bestselling author of The Idiot follows one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood.
In his first novel, Werner Herzog tells a hypnotic tale inspired by the true story of a Japanese soldier who defended a small island for twenty-nine years after the end of WWII1944: Lubang Island, the Philippines.
Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday TimesBased on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion.
Inspired by real life stories of the Windrush Generation and her mother's own experiences as a nurse coming to Britain from the Caribbean, Sarah Lee's debut novel An Ocean Apart is a must for fans of Call the Midwife.
James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a powerful, trailblazing novel that exposes the intricate relationship between race and class in late nineteenth-century America.
From the bestselling author of The Librarian of Auschwitz, Antonio Iturbe, comes a captivating historical novel based on a true story - the extraordinary life and mysterious death of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince.
Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize'Wildly seductive' - Sarah Waters'Exquisite' - New York Times'Deeply enjoyable' - Daily TelegraphBriefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens is a historical otherworldly story about breaking convention, and about love - secret, forbidden, unrequited.
'Literally out-Christies Agatha' - Janice Hallett, author of The AppealNina de Gramont's The Christie Affair reimagines the unexplained eleven-day disappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the world.
Two magnificent memoirs by Aleksandar Hemon, presented together in a glorious single edition: together they make a major work from one of our major writers.
In Burmese Days, George Orwell, one of the most famous writers in the English language, draws on his own experience of living and working in Burma to write an unflinching novel about the dark side of imperialism.
