In 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in the world's biggest ever initial public offering. Since then, investors have pondered a fundamental question: what's really...
Signifying Rappers is a fun and quirky discovery for any fan of David Foster Wallace or Hip-hop. Signifying Rappers is an old-school classic from David Foster Wallace and his friend and room-mate...
Number one best-seller Jane Green - author of "The Love Verb" and "Spellbound" - examines the dynamics of family life and relationships in her novel "The Patchwork...
A revelatory and exhilarating tour de force, Nicholas Ostler's "The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages" explores the rise of a linguistic diversity we could never...
'Suzi Grant knows the secrets of youth' The TimesLOOK AND FEEL YOUR BEST IN 2020 WITH ALTERNATIVE AGEING - THE NATURAL WAY TO FEEL YOUNG AGAINSuzi Grant is in her late sixties but you...
Ryan Giggs first played for Manchester United in the season before the Premiership began; back when Bryan Robson was still captain. He took possession of United's left wing and never loosened...
N. J. Dawood's masterful translation of the Koran, with parallel Arabic text. "Across the language barrier Dawood captures the thunder and poetry of the original". (The Times). The...
'God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody's appendage?... When will I be free?'There is no greater honour for a woman in an...
As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat...
Climate change is the greatest crisis humankind has ever faced. It is that straightforward, that fraught. Where were you when you made your decision?' It is all too easy to feel paralysed and...
When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumours of a missile base near the West German border, it seems the perfect opportunity to regain some...
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the...
Based on a study in Russian and many other foreign archives, this title explains why this suicidal decision was made and explores the world of the men who made it, thereby consigning their entire...
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Pre-order the chilling and heart-pounding new novel from Norwegian superstar Jørn Lier Horst.THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HIT BBC FOUR SHOW WISTINGA chilling letter. A wrong conviction. One last chance...
Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC. Although Mo hopes someday to find her "upstream mother," she's found a home with the Colonel and...
Jeremy Clarkson puts the pedal to the floor in Don't Stop Me Now, a collection of his Sunday Times motoring journalism. There's more to life than cars. Jeremy Clarkson knows this. There is,...
Der Schriftsteller Paul Bowles erhielt 1991 den "Rea Award for the Short Story" und wurde damit für seinen bedeutenden Beitrag zur Kurzgeschichte als Kunstform geehrt. Mit seinem...
In The Fourth Revolution, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge ask: what is the state actually for? Their remarkable book describes the three great revolutions in its history, and the fourth...
"Freedom from Fear" - collected writings from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San Suu Kyi's collected writings - edited by her late husband, whom the ruling military...
Paul Davies' "The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?" gets to the heart of what makes the universe tick - and what makes our place in it so special. It's...