Heaven Has No Groundis the fierce, intimate story of Ama, a young woman who is reckoning with the death of her father when she receives her own cancer diagnosis and, contrary to the wishes of family and friends, decides to seek alternative treatments rather than conventional chemotherapy and radiation.
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Patrick Gale's early novel, FACING THE TANK is a witty, eccentric story of clergy, scandal and English eccentrics 'Made me laugh out loud' Sunday TimesAmerican Professor Evan Kirby, author of a successful book on Hell, moves to Barrowcester in the south England expecting to find the very epitome of a cathedral society of gentle clergymen and coffee mornings.
Contesting the Origins of the First World War challenges the Anglophone emphasis on Germany as bearing the primary responsibility in causing the conflict and instead builds upon new perspectives to reconsider the roles of the other Great Powers.
›Emoticon‹ erzählt die Geschichte von Daniel, einem niederländisch-israelischen Jugendlichen, und von Aischa, einer jungen Palästinenserin, die für die Weltöffentlichkeit ein Zeichen setzen will – und Daniel in eine tödliche Falle lockt.
De Los Angeles à Montréal, en passant par Paris, Conséquences lyriques, est un roman savamment déconstruit, pour ne pas dire cubiste, et constitué de six groupes de personnages.
L’ange tourmenté raconte les mésaventures d’un jeune curé, Isidore Bilodeau, dont la foi est mise à rude épreuve par l’Archevêque de Québec, un homme aux intentions et au désir de vengeance pas très « catholiques ».
From the award-winning author of The Gardens of Kyoto comes this witty and incisive novel about the lives and attitudes of a group of womenonce country-club housewives; today divorced, independent, and breaking the rules.
Eileen Myles erzählt ungeschönt und unverblümt davon, wie es war – damals in New York – als alles möglich schien, als Warhol jedem 15 Minuten Berühmtheit versprach, als Allen Ginsberg noch zu deiner Buchpremiere kam, wenn du ihn einludst, als noch alle mit allen im Bett gelandet sind, und es immer irgendjemanden gab, der Alkohol oder Drogen dabei hatte.
Ein tragikomischer Familien-Roadtrip auf den Spuren der verschollenen GroßmutterSalesche, ein Dorf in Polen 1990: Jarek und seine Eltern packen ihre Sachen.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013An unsettling exploration of manipulation and power between a middle-aged man and eleven year-old girl.
Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden; it interrogates the various ways in which these writers contended with conveying their war experience from the temporal and spatial proximity of the warzone and investigates the multifarious impact of the war on the (re)development of their aesthetics.
This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century.
New York Times Bestselling AuthorFinally returned to print in a beautiful trade paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence artists-a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability “Oates .
WINNER OF THE WALES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021Winner of the Naim Frash ri Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia Winner of the European Lyric Atlas Prize 'Fiona Sampson's voice is something new and it's a delight to hear it .
Adichies preisgekrönter Afrika-Roman - schon jetzt ein WeltklassikerEine Geschichte über Liebe und Verrat, Rassismus und Loyalität und das Leben im zerstörerischen Alltag des Krieges.
Lucknow: Buildings, Begums and The British is not about history; rather it is a book on heritage - defined as the legacy of physical artefacts and intangible attributes inherited from past generations.
A fascinating examination of the strategies and uses of air power in the First World War, Sky on Fire covers not only developments in military hardware and tactics but also how public policy and political considerations shaped the ways air power was deployed.
With its echoes of fellow Austrian novelist Robert Musil's novella Young Torless, and of Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum, Florjan Lipus's Young Tjaz, first published in 1972, helped moved the critique of Germanic Europe's fundamental social conformity into the postwar age.
