more than the score is a series of classic piano music, covering much of the essential repertoire from Bach through Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Debussy, right up to John Cage. Each...
Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How...
Sommer 1926. Christine Hoflehner hat eine bescheidene Anstellung als Postassistentin in einem österreichischen Dorf gefunden. Die Sorgen der Nachkriegszeit sind überwunden, doch vor ihr liegt ein...
Trade paperback. Fully updated up to and including }Bad Education{ and available for the first time in paperback, the great Spanish film-maker in a career-long conversation.
From the bestselling author of Lullaby'Riveting.' Evening standard'Explosive.' Mail on Sunday'Thrilling.' Sunday Times'A must-read.' VogueHer obsessions devour her....
Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from Washington D.C. In the cobblestoned streets of Luxembourg, her days are filled with play dates and coffee mornings, her weekends spent in Paris...
The story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand by Bobby Hundreds himselfStreetwear occupies that rarefied space where genuine "cool" coexists with big...
The MotherAnne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each morning for her two young children. Years later, spending hours alone, Anne convinces herself that her husband is having...
A Brutalised Victim in the Wilds: A solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. She's been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has...
For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection, Death of a Naturalist, which on its appearance in 1966 won the...
»Die Brüder Karamasow« - »Roman in vier Teilen, mit einem Epilog« ist das letzte Werk der großen »Romantragödien« von Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewskij, erschienen 1879/80, ein Jahr vor dem Tod...
Filthy Talk for Troubled Time is one of his earliest plays. A downbeat night at a topless bar exposes the gulf between the twitchy clientele and the waitresses who serve but despise them. The Mercy...
The story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told żeby Pfarrer, a former assault element commander of SEAL Team Six.
George Orwells großer dystopischer Klassiker in meisterhafter Neuübersetzung 1948 beendete George Orwell nach dreijähriger Arbeit seinen letzten Roman, der ihn weltberühmt machen sollte: »1984«...
Was, wenn Hitler den Krieg gewonnen hätte? Diese Frage machte Philip K. Dick zum Ausgangspunkt seines waghalsigsten und berühmtesten Romans.Amerika 1962: Das Land ist geteilt - die Westküste...
Eira remembers the summer when 16-year-old Lina went missing and Olof confessed to the murder. Eira remembers Olof being sent away, but now hes back, and he stands accused of another brutal crime....
Pitched somewhere between Almost Famous and Withnail & I, "Apathy for the Devil" is a unique document of this most fascinating and troubling of decades - a story of inspiration, success...
Eight-year-old Carmel has always been different - sensitive, distracted, with an heartstopping tendency to go missing. Her mother Beth, worries about her daughter's strangeness, especially as...
"The Alliterative Morte Arthure" - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as...
Tsutsui, a lifelong Godzilla fan and historian, takes a lighthearted look at the big, green radioactive lizard, revealing how he was born and how he became a megastar.
Zsuzsa Bánk, Lars Brandt, Wilhelm Genazino, Olga Grjasnowa, Angelika Klüssendorf, Martin Mosebach, Teresa Präauer, Thomas Pletzinger und Antje Rávik Strubel haben Menschen aus Frankfurt getroffen...
Der gefährlichste Mann der Republik heißt Dr. Bernhard Sommerfeldt. Er ist aus Ostfriesland geflohen.Aber Ostfriesland hat auch sie: Ann Kathrin Klaasen, die beste Zielfahnderin in ganz...
The author of Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation traces a year of dramatic global change in the aftermath of a massive early 19th-century Indonesian volcanic eruption that disrupted...