A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK PICK Equal parts investigative reporting and cultural criticism, this is a look at the sex lives of young adults in post-Roe v.
They dragged more than two hundred thousand trees across fifty miles of desert to raise a canyon full of great houses where almost no one seems to have lived.
A Waterstones Best History Book 2024'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' - Helen Fry, historian and author of Women In Intelligence'A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they'll be.
'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMESVera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of workers' rights who regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery.
On the evening of 30 March, 1982, Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror received a telephone call giving him the order to 'store for war'.
'THE SUN' EBOOK OF THE WEEKFrom the brilliant author of 'Black Boxes' comes a gritty and heartfelt novella with a twist: 99 Reasons, 11 endings, your pick.
Wie Vater die Welt pragten - eine Geschichte von Macht, Mannlichkeit und MythosAugustine Sedgewick begibt sich auf eine faszinierende Spurensuche durch die Geschichte der Vaterschaft von den Anfangen menschlicher Gesellschaften uber religiose und politische Ordnungen bis hin zur Gegenwart.
Zwischen Glanz und Krise - mit Siegfried Kracauer durch die Weimarer RepublikTanzpalaste, Kaufhausfenster, Bestsellerlisten der vielleicht scharfste Chronist der Goldenen Zwanziger Siegfried Kracauer sah in den Oberflachen der Weimarer Republik die Tiefe der Gesellschaft.
Alles Wichtige uber die LGBTQIA*-Bewegung und ihren Kampf fur Gleichberechtigung Queerness ladt zu einem offenen Denken ein, das uns nicht einteilt in normal und unnormal , in passend oder unpassend .
Wenige Architekturen sind in Deutschland so mit Bedeutung aufgeladen wie Synagogen - darunter besonders jene, die in den ersten Jahrzehnten nach dem Holocaust errichtet wurden: Judische Neubauten dieser Art gelten zumindest in der BRD als Beleg fur eine geleistete 'Wiedergutmachung' fur die systematische Zerstorung judischen Lebens und judischer Architektur durch den Nationalsozialismus.
Liam O'Callaghan's revelatory Blood and Thunder shows that the rise of Irish rugby is inextricable from the tensions, debates and divisions of politics, religion and class that have defined modern Irish history.
The French drink, smoke and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet they live longer and have fewer heart problems than the English and the Americans.
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**An exceptional piece of work; powerful, vivid and compelling Rowland White, author of Vulcan 607The Second World War was not only fought in the skies above Europe or on distant beaches.
Winner of the Western Heritage Award for "e;Outstanding Western Novel"e; 2005As the Cheyenne fought that June day in 1876, warrior Comes in Sight faced grave danger.
A radical retelling of human history through collapse from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond.
'A poignant celebration of human resilience' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite RunnerDear Zari gives voice to the secret lives of women across Afghanistan and allows them to tell their stories in their own words: from the child bride given as payment to end a family feud; to a life spent in a dark, dusty room weaving carpets; to a young girl brought up as a boy; to life as a widow shunned by society.
*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize*'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianCoffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world's most popular drug.
The definitive guide to Traditionalism: the world's least-known major philosophy, but one that is essential for understanding our past, present and futureTraditionalism is founded on ancient teachings that, its followers argue, have been handed down from time immemorial, forming a basis of the sacred order that must be defended from modernity and the disorder it brings.
THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLERA Book of the Year in The Times and Financial Times'This isn't a book; it's a case for revolution' CAMILLA LONG, SUNDAY TIMES'A damning cannonball of truth through the York ramparts' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Surely has a claim to the title of book of the year, for its seismic impact' JANINE GIBSON, FINANCIAL TIMES'This book has changed the way its readers think.
'Clever, clear and insightful, this book is an indispensable guide to the new scientific and gastronomic frontier of fermentation' Heston Blumenthal'Entertaining, illuminating and insightful' Sandor Katz***Embark on a tantalising journey into the weird and wonderful world of fermentation.
A remarkable collection of 'Covid Chronicles' -- stories from lockdown sent in from listeners to BBC Radio 4 -- making a deeply moving people's history of the pandemic.
A revelatory exploration of how today s right-wing authoritarianism emerged not in opposition to neoliberalism, but from within it FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 'Bracingly original.
