Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops...
Judith Schalansky's strange and wonderful new book, recalling writers as different as W.G. Sebald and Christa Wolf, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, sees her return to the territory she explored...
Should you hold a mouse by its tail? A grasshopper aby its leg? A butterfly by its wing? How do you pick up a prickly hedgehog? A slithering snake? A hissing cat?Most of us don't have nearly...
This story shall be about my friend (as at least about the man who was once my friend) Charles Dickens and about the accident that took away his peace of mind, his health, and, some might whisper,...
Aims to recreate the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl...
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction)"It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew."As a girl,...
When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mum, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she...
1949: Im Nachkriegsdeutschland blühen die schmutzigen Geschäfte von Siegern und Besiegten, mittendrin Bernie, der ja auch Geld verdienen muss. Da taucht eine Dame auf, die ihren Mann suchen und ihn...
Exercise guide for toning both the body and the mind, helping to boost brain cells, protect against mental illness and ensure success in exams and the workplace.
The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD. "Jin Yong's work, in...
"Der Gesellschaftsroman unserer Zeit" Volker Weidermann im Literarischen Quartett.Die Geschichte um den sympathischen Loser Vernon Subutex geht weiter: Der 2. Band erzählt davon, wie seine...
The number one bestseller, marking million-selling May's return to the Outer Hebrides. Niamh and Ruairidh Macfarlane co-own the Hebridean company Ranish Tweed. On a business trip to Paris to...
The latest no-f**ks-given guide from New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, and You Do You.
How can we live a more ethical life$110 This question has plagued people for thousands of years, but it's never been tougher to answer than it is now, thanks to challenges great and small that...
'What matters isn't if people are good or bad. What matters is, if they're trying to be better today than they were yesterday.' - Michael, The Good Place
Alain Delambre is a 57-year-old former HR executive, drained by four years of hopeless unemployment. All he is offered are small, demoralizing jobs. He has reached his very lowest ebb, and can see...