Der Roman »Ökotopia«, 1975 verfasst, verblüfft durch seine Aktualität: Elektrotaxis, Biogemüse, Smartphones, mächtige Politikerinnen, Solarenergie – beim Lesen glaubt man sich immer wieder in eine parallele Gegenwart versetzt.
There is no doubt that Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century, and perhaps the best introduction to his work is through his magnificent short stories, widely anthologized and praised throughout the world.
* NO REGRET, the brand new pulse-pounding novel from Martina Cole, is available to preorder now *'With the return of some of her best-loved characters and lashings of her usual grit, Cole fans will lap this up' HeatIconic heroine DCI Kate Burrows returns in a blistering thriller you won't be able to put down.
This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her basket.
A romantic, vivid novel about three women who leave Victorian London for Egypta tale of female empowerment, self-discovery, love, and the absolution that comes from facing the secrets of our pasts.
In this joint volume of Caucausian fiction, two friends from opposing sides of the unresolved Georgian-Abkhaz conflict join forces to craft a poignant anti-war narrative that spans borders and transcends political divides.
In Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo's perverse mutant protagonist-the Parisian "e;Monster of Le Sentier"e;-is blown up by an extremist bomber and finds himself in the cyberspace of the Thereafter with an infinite collection of computer monitors.
An estranged daughter returns home to discover her father's WWII history in a ';beautifully written' novel of family rifts and the burdens of racism (Historical Novel Society).
Set in Copenhagen and the Danish West Indies in the mid-nineteenth century, LOVING SOREN is the true story of Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, told from the point of view of his fiancee.
In a literary thriller about science, power, and the lives of ordinary people, John Keeble tells the story of a woman whose passion for her work puts herself and her family at serious risk.
A girl matches wits with a war god in this kaleidoscopic, epic tale of oppression and the cost of peace, where stories hide within other stories, and narrative has the power to heal.
Winner of the 2019 American Fiction Award for Best Historical FictionSet in London and Russia at the turn of the century, Susana Aikin's debut introduces a vibrant young woman determined to defy convention and shape an extraordinary future.
Der neue Feelgood-Roman von Viola Shipman bringt das Lebensgefühl der achtziger Jahre zurück und erinnert uns an die Sommer, die uns zu denen machten, die wir sind.
The Sunday Times top 10 bestselling novel from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT*Over 400,000 copies sold*Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award'Exquisitely sensual' Emma Donoghue, author of Room-----Fresh out of university and in disgrace, Lexie Sinclair is waiting for life to begin.
Before We Were YoursmeetsWater for ElephantsinNew York Timesbestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman's vivid, daring, emotional novel about the devastating power of family secretsbeginning in the poignant, lurid world of a Depression-era traveling circus and coming full circle in the transformative 1950s.
Streets Of New York Volume 1 takes readers into the turbulent lives of Promise, Squeeze, Show, and Pooh, four young men from the rough-and-tumble streets of Brook-nam.
