Das Ende der Bismarckzeit: Die Geschwister Otto, Amalie und Levin von Briest sehen der Wende zum neuen Jahrhundert entgegen und allen Verheißungen, die es mit sich bringt.
Liebe, Trauer und Vergeltung im Ruhrpott – eine deutsche SagaEin Kiosk in Duisburg ist der Ausgangspunkt einer rasanten Geschichte, die ihren Held durch den Ruhrpott, nach Warschau und bis auf die Großglocknerstraße führt – und an die Grenzen seiner Liebes- und Leidensfähigkeit.
Ein Roman über die Sehnsucht, die sich falsch anfühlt und dennoch richtig istDie Tage, an denen die Welt sich bewegt, an denen man das Leben spürt, das sind für Tobias Puck Rocktage.
Fremd in der Welt und fremd dem eigenen Leben gegenüber, folgt Elfriede Jelinek in ihrem Text den Spuren des Wanderers aus Franz Schuberts «Winterreise».
Ein literarischer Messerwurf ins Herz unserer Zeit – ein Mann, den die Globalisierung an den Abgrund drängtDave Eggers ist einer der interessantesten, engagiertesten und wagemutigsten Schriftsteller der Gegenwart.
'The most dazzling, most unsettling, most oh-my-God-listen-up novel you'll read this year' The Washington PostA dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment - a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writerLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION 2015Born and raised in the heart of old Dixie, D'aron Davenport is a small-town fish floundering in the depths of a large, hyper-liberal pond of UC Berkeley.
The new Liverpool-based World War Two saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war.
After the success of The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us another slice of contemporary life, this time the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of a small English town.
'Vividly imagined' Sunday Telegraph'Sex and death meet again in [a] marvellous evocation of Edwardian England' Daily MailThe girl reminded me of my favourite chocolates, whipped hazelnut creams, and I knew just from looking at her that I wanted her for my best friend.
Manuel Rivas delivers a literary masterpiece about three young friends growing up in a community which is bound by a conspiracy of silenceFins and Brinco are best friends, and they both adore the wild and beautiful Leda.
'A debut collection of such precocity and aplomb that it stands comparison to the likes of Junot Diaz and Bryan Washington' Observer'Moving, truthful, straight from the heart' Neel Mukherjee'These are excellent stories, told with skill and verve' Jon McGregorHere, beneath the planes circling Heathrow, various lives connect.
'A complex tale of revolution, displacement, delusional love' GuardianIn Damascus, Suleima and Naseem's relationship is torn apart by the outbreak of civil war.
The House of Mirth follows the tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage social-climbing world of New York high society in the nineteenth century.
Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D.
When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country.
