In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves'This is McGuinness's best collection by far, and stands out from the crowd'SUNDAY TIMESIn Blood Feather, a book of doubling and displacement, we see time in a new way: the past, personal and collective, lingering as an ever-present ghost - while lost beyond recall.
Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, where fishermen are often lost to violent seas and children regularly swept away.
»Ich bestehe aus Literatur« Franz KafkaMit seinen oft unvollendet gebliebenen, bis heute ihr Rätsel nicht offenbarenden Romanen, Geschichten und Parabeln ist Franz Kafka eine der maßgeblichen Säulenfiguren der modernen Literatur.
In diesem Buch erzählt ein Blaulichtreporter aus dem schönen Land Brandenburg die Geschichten von Helden und Opfern, denen er auf seinen Einsätzen begegnet ist.
From the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved, million-copy selling Stark series, comes Sweetest Taboo, the provocative third book in the Stark S.
The unforgettable novel from Nikola Scott about two women - born decades apart - each faced with the knowledge that a man in their lives is not what he seems.
Der Sommer 1789 ist herrlich warm und so schön, dass man die Hungersnot im vorangegangenen bitterkalten Winter leicht vergessen kann, zumindest in den Palästen.
FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO Solzhenitsyn is one of the towering figures of the age, as a writer, as moralist, as hero Edward CrankshawAfter years in enforced exile on the Kazakhstan steppes, a cancer diagnosis brings Oleg Kostoglotov to Ward 13.
A moving, deeply affecting story about street children in Africa, from the bestselling writer behind the Kurt Wallander series One night Jos hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery.
Charles Dickens's second novel, "e;Oliver Twist"e; was first published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and centres around the story of orphan Oliver Twist, who was born in a workhouse and sold as an apprentice to an undertaker.
Die trügerische Opulenz einer Ära, die an ihr Ende gekommen ist Die Brissago-Inseln im Lago Maggiore, Silvester 1929: Auf diesem künstlichen Paradies versammelt der Großunternehmer Max Bernheim eine Festgesellschaft, um unter dem Motto Die goldene Barke Abschied zu nehmen von einem Jahrzehnt des Überschwangs.
The first three full-length Miss Marple novels, set before and during the Second World War, see the world's most accomplished amateur sleuth unravelling the dark side of human nature to uncover three cases of Murder Most Foul!
The most scandalous Royal book of the yearIn a rapidly changing world the Royal Family own swathes of the country, most of the seabed and more money than anyone could ever spend.
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English writer and poet whose work famously examined the results of industrialisation on contemporary society.
'Warm and big-hearted' Sarah Vaughan, author of Anatomy of a Scandal'A beautiful book about unexpected friendships and daring to dream' Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost ThingsBehind every ordinary day, behind every ordinary story, there's an extraordinary one just waiting to happen.
In September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to businessman Amado Dam, intended for Argentina's first Ethnographic Theme Park.
Das Dröhnen und die Herrlichkeit, die Bürde und die Notwendigkeit des Lebens der "einfachen Leute"Willy sehnt sich nach nichts so sehr wie nach einem normalen Leben.
