Selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020The first in an exciting new series from 'Iceland's outstanding crime novelist' (Daily Express) Yrsa Sigurdardottir.
'Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money money' Sunday Express'The latest Norwegian crime-writing sensation' Sunday Times Her name is Mia Kruger, and it is she who makes this superb story very special indeed.
Thornton Wilder: Die Tagebücher des großen klassischen Autors der modernen amerikanischen LiteraturThornton Wilders Tagebücher bieten eine faszinierende Möglichkeit, einen der bedeutendsten modernen Schriftsteller bei seiner schöpferischen Arbeit, und die stete intellektuelle Anstrengung eines Künstlers zu erleben, der wie kaum ein anderer über das kulturelle Erbe der westlichen Zivilisation verfügte.
In ihrem Roman Moralische Unordnung führt uns Margaret Atwood mitten hinein in ihr eigenes Leben: Sie erzählt die Geschichte von Nell, schildert deren kluge, lebenstüchtige, aber kühle Mutter, den Vater, einen Insektenforscher, und die viel jüngere, kapriziöse und psychisch labile Schwester.
An absolutely heartbreaking and gripping historical novel based on a true story, for fans of Suzanne Goldring, Bridgerton and The Girl Behind the Gates.
Winner of the 2017 Best Translated Book AwardLonglisted for the 2017 National Translation Award"e;The book itself is strange-part Faulknerian meditation on the perversities, including sexual, of degenerate country folk; part Dostoevskian examination of good and evil and God-but in its strangeness lies its rare power, and in the sincerity and seriousness with which the essential questions are posed lies its greatness.
In his first novel, Werner Herzog tells a hypnotic tale inspired by the true story of a Japanese soldier who defended a small island for twenty-nine years after the end of WWII1944: Lubang Island, the Philippines.
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INFILTRATOROne-time Swedish government agent Piet Hoffmann is on the run from the life prison sentence he escaped: living under a false identity with his family in Cal , Colombia.
'An Aztec West Wing' GUARDIAN'I was so impressed that I'm on my second read' TORREY PETERS'A triumph' FINANCIAL TIMES'Glorious' i-DA NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF 2024A GUARDIAN TOP FIVE TRANSLATED FICTION OF 2024In 1519, Conquistador Hern n Cort s and his troops ride into the floating city of Tenoxtitlan today s Mexico City in this hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story.
When Abwehr Captain Eberhard Mock is called from his New Year's Eve revelries to attend a particularly grisly crime scene, his notoriously robust stomach is turned.
Manuel fährt nach Andalusien, die Heimat seiner Mutter, wo er die Geschichte seiner Herkunft und Kindheit erfährt: Seine Mutter, die schöne Aracoeli, folgte ihrer großen Liebe nach Rom.
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD'A mesmerising reading experience for all of us seeking a meaningful life' JAPAN TIMESWhat he experienced that day wasn t life-changing .