This is the brand new edition of Paul Harris' very popular Improve Your Sight-Reading Piano series The covers now contain US levels Now more than ever, the ability to sight-read fluently is an...
Swetlana Geier, die Grande Dame der russischen Übersetzer, hat mit ihren herausragenden Neuübertragungen von Dostojewskijs großen Romanen neue Maßstäbe gesetzt. In diesem biographischen Interview...
For con man Rodrick and his talking sword Hrym, life is all about taking what you can and getting away clean. But when the pair are arrested, their only hope lies in a secret government program in...
An ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, which spans six decades and draws on twelve collections. The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott is a key...
P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre, from the birth of the detective story, through Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, to...
To the authorities in pursuit of him, Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism,...
Learn to use your most precious commodity--time--to truly live.Arnold Bennett's classic book, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, has been changing the way people use and consider their time since...
World War II is finally over, and after four tortuous years serving the Crown in Egypt, Lawerence Durrell seeks peace in the landscapes he has loved since growing up in Corfu: ancient Mediterranean...
Whether describing the tensions of an arranged marriage, the trauma of having an alcoholic mother, or the petty corruption of an Indian neighbourhood, Akhil Sharma's stories always expose the...
Die junge Nerdy hatte es bislang nicht leicht im Leben und bestreitet ihren Lebensunterhalt mit Wahrsagerei und sexuellen Dienstleistungen. Sie verdient nicht schlecht - meistens erzählt sie den...
1919 saw the publication of two major polemical works: The Economic Consequences of the Peace aby John Maynard Keynes and Democratic Ideals and Reality żeby Halford J. Mackinder. The former is...
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the...
Six plays by Ted Hughes, which are particularly suitable for performance by children. Four were originally published under the title, }The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays{, and }Orpheus{ and...
Falling in love is one of the strangest things we can do - and one of the things that makes us uniquely human. But what happens to our brains when our eyes meet across a crowded room? Why do we...
Das Leben Charlie Chaplins ist ein Märchen des 20. Jahrhunderts: der Aufstieg des kleinen Jungen aus dem Armenhaus zu einem der berühmtesten und genialsten Weltstars unserer Zeit. Es ist ein...
George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare. The world he grows up in, of village...
Metallica have sold in excess of 100 million albums and won seven Grammys. Their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the stages of the world's biggest stadia has been an epic and often...
This is a novel of guilt and innocence and the impossibility of justice in an unequal society. In Peru, an airman is found brutally murdered. Two policemen set out to investigate, but they are not...
The "War of the End of the World" is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired aby a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of an apocalyptic...
Plays One: "Total Eclipse""The Philanthropist""Savages""Treats" With an introduction żeby the author, this first collection of Christopher Hampton's work...
Im Anschluß an den Nürnberger Prozeß gegen die nationalsozialistischen Hauptkriegsverbrecher fanden von 1946 bis 1949 zwölf Nachfolgeprozesse statt; der erste von ihnen war der sog. Ärzteprozeß vor...
New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston's return to her trademark blend of magic and romance is guaranteed to enchant. An antique shop haunted by a ghost.A silver treasure with an...
»Lesen Sie bitte dieses Buch, es ist hinreißend. Ich habe so viel Neues erfahren, über die Liebe, die Kunst und das Grauen.« Ferdinand von SchirachDie spektakuläre Neuerzählung der dreißiger Jahre...
Already recognized as a master of adventure writing for his classic "Death in the Long Grass, "former big-game hunter Capstick now turns from his own exploits to those of some of the...