They called him the 'angriest black man in America' . . .Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for millions of black men and women the equal...więcej »
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolat...więcej »
Social psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to different groups of people, from schoolchildren to prisoners to healthcare workers, about the good life. These conversations and ...więcej »
'A memoir and a master class in musing on modern design . . . It's a collection of thoughtful, absorbing essays about many aspects of modern design, a subject nobody writes better about than Sudjic...więcej »
You do not mess with Jack Reacher.He is as close to untraceable as a person can get. A loner comfortable in his anonymity and solitude. So when a member of his old Army unit finds a way...więcej »
Get ready for your next summer obsession: "a perfect rich-people-behaving-badly beach read"Fire Island is where every wants to spend their summer. Each year, the city elite ga...więcej »
During the nineteenth century, there were repeated efforts in the United States to make a uniform textbook of Christian doctrine that all Catholics might be able to use. In 1829, the bishops assemb...więcej »
TWO WRITERS, ONE HOLIDAY. A ROMCOM WAITING TO HAPPEN...January is a hopeless romantic who narrates her life like she's the lead in a blockbuster movie.Gus is a serious literary ty...więcej »
Clare thought that by now she would have her life figured out. Instead, she's living with her parents, working a job she hates and has absolutely no idea what she wants to do with the rest of her l...więcej »
In a large Swedish forest, Beartown hides a dark secret . . .Cut-off from everywhere else, it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart.And each year, more a...więcej »
The epic final adventure in the New York Times bestselling BEASTS OF PREY trilogy, for fans of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, SHADOW AND BONE and THE GILDED ONES.Koffi, once a servant to the go...więcej »
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, OBAMA 2021 BOOK PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hunger was a constant, reliable friend in Mei Guo. She came second only to loneliness.'więcej »
'Monster, monster, come out to play. Monster, monster, I've been waiting all day.'Everything Fortuna believed has been revealed as illusion and lies. Everything has changed....więcej »
Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books.Translated into English for the first time, this atmo...więcej »
The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers tha...więcej »
'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly'The ancient Greek philosopher and teacher Epicurus argued that pleasure - not sensual hedonism...więcej »
Discover the beautiful coming-of-age story about falling in-and-out of love, brimming with humour and heartbreak.'Smart, hilarious and deeply moving' Elliot Page, author of Pageboywięcej »
Despite years of stagnation, Japan remains one of the world's largest economies and a country which exerts a remarkable cultural fascination. David Pilling's new book is an entertaining, deeply kno...więcej »
'There was no longer that ambivalent inconsistency between her words and thoughts, no more fever, no more artificial heat, no more vagueness. Instead was the truth in all its rawness, in black and ...więcej »
A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz K...więcej »