With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany.
'One of his most erotic and emotionally charged stories' The Times Two people who didn't know each other and who had come together by a miracle in the great city, and who now clung desperately to each other, as if already they felt a chilly solitude settling in.
Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold .
The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynastyIt is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power.
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a new translation by Michael Hofmann, translator of Alone in Berlin Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin.
The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict Italo Calvino Gonzalo is a highly educated man living alone with his ageing, widowed mother in a town scarred by war.
Kuningatar Anshalyn on asunut useiden vuosien ajan kaukana valtaistuimen loistosta, piilossa rauhallisessa Rosenheimin kylassa kaukaisessa Etelamaassa.
Der Siegelmagier - Die gesamte Chronik als imitierte SonderausgabeMit Tinte und Papier erschafft er machtige Siegel, die unsere Welt vor gefahrlichen Wesen schutzen.
Der stahlerne Bund - Die gesamte Saga als imitierte SonderausgabeAlwyn Scribe wachst als Gesetzloser in den Waldern von Albermaine auf gewieft mit Klinge und Verstand.
Die Riyria-Chroniken als GOLDEDITION - Limitierte SonderausgabeIm Schatten des KronturmsHadrian, ein Krieger ohne Ziel, und Royce, ein Dieb ohne Hoffnung, werden von einem alten Zauberer angeheuert, um ein geheimnisvolles Buch aus dem uneinnehmbaren Kronturm zu stehlen der bestgeschutzten Festung des Reiches.
Ein Luxushotel, alte Geheimnisse und eine neue LiebeTraci will das Luxushotel Saint Cecelia an der Kuste Georgias wieder in altem Glanz erstrahlen lassen.
"e;Die Tiefe"e; erzahlt die Geschichte mehrerer Generationen einer Familie, deren Schicksal tief mit dem einstigen Ostpreuen verwoben ist, einer Region, wo sich seit Jahrhunderten polnische, masurische, deutsche und litauische Identitaten miteinander verflechten: die Geschichte der Gromutter Janka, der Aristokratin Gudrun, ihres Geliebten Max, eines deutschen Chirurgen, der Tante Gertraud, die von Jankas Sohn, Wolf, und Alicja, dem jungsten Familienmitglied und einer Anthropologin, die nur schwer damit zurechtkommt, das Elternhaus an der Guber zu verkaufen - ein geheimnisumwobenes Gebaude voller Erinnerungen.
Billy zerschneidet Kinosessel und plant eine schillernde Zukunft anderswo, als Autor von Billy England's Book of Pain oder als Psychotherapeut der Reichen und Schönen in Hollywood.
Zuhause ist kein Ort, sondern ein GefuhlSonnig, heiter, unwiderstehlich in ihrem wunderbaren Urlaubsroman Sommer fuhlt sich an wie Zuhause bezaubert SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Jenny Colgan erneut mit liebenswerten Figuren, mit denen man sofort Freundschaft schlie en mochte, mit einem idyllischen Setting an der schottischen Kuste und einer sommerlich frohlichen Handlung voller Gefuhl.
In einer beschaulichen Kleinstadt in der Schweiz passiert Erstaunliches: Kaum gegründet, mischen Sabine und Schanti mit ihrem Verein "Polyphon Pervers" die Kulturszene auf.
This bilingual English-Russian edition of Hawthorne's famous story Rappaccini's Daughter was prepared for those who want to perfect their skills in reading advanced English and/or Russian.
A thrillingly dark novel from 'Japan's Agatha Christie' (Sunday Times) While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack.
An enchanting selection of Christmas tales by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish national treasure - now available in English for the first time'But what shall I do on Christmas night if nobody has given me a book?
THE SPIEGEL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE 2024: a woman finds solace in her interactions with internet scammers in this electric and moving novel about communication and isolation, needs and desires, and how far we are prepared to go for love'A triumph of sharp wit and profound humanity .
A new selection of poetry from the generation-defining author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated for the first time into EnglishWhile Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary prose writer, in Denmark she has also long been celebrated as a poet.
Read the heartwarming new novel from the international million-copy bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop Exquisitely written, as always, she draws you in from the first page and immerses you in the lives of her delightful characters.
The unforgettable final novel from the great Danish writer and author of The Copenhagen Trilogy Recently escaped a long, unhappy marriage aged 51, but youthful in spirit wonderful son, aged 15 household literary name summerhouse large flat in the city centre temporarily incapacitated by a nervous breakdown prefers a motorist.
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Based on a real-life seventeenth century Danish witch trial, The Wax Child tells in vivid prose the story of Christenze Kruckow, a noblewoman long pursued by a scandal of sorcery.
'Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears' GuardianLev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres.
A feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual, translated into English for the first time I want to have him, I really do.
'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive' The New York Times Book ReviewA new translation by Tim ParksTwenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he has to a home: the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate.
The International Booker Prize-shortlisted masterpiece on grief and loss, from one of France's most original writers at work todayA Leopard-Skin Hat may be Anne Serre's most moving novel yet.
