It’s 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a place in it all is nine-year-old Leon. He and his little brother...

Rizzi hat seiner Lieblingstadt New York ein k?nstlerisches Denkmal gesetzt – in Form eines bislang einzigartigen Reisef?hrers in zwei Versionen. Sehensw?rdigkeiten. Stadt- und U-Bahn-Pl?ne, Alltagsszenen – alles gemalt. Das drei Kilo schwere Coffee Table Book enth?lt ?ber 1000 Illustrationen,...

The honest, explicit and extraordinary memoir of Edward Charles Featherstone—Englishman, Businessman, Polo Player and Combat Pilot—My Rude Awakening reveals an astonishing account of life lived with passion and intensity. From the lush green Berkshire’s polo fields, through the ardours...

‘A major decision about me is being made, and no one’s bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion.’ The only reason Anna was born was to donate her cord blood cells to...

The elderly owner of Mogdon Manor, Victor Hamblyn, dies in a mysterious fire. But was it really an accident? Jack and Sarah are skeptical – The victim’s three middle-aged children, who all live in the village of Cherringham, are...

Peshawar, 1920. Hester Metcalfe is a child of British India, born and raised in the hubbub and dust of Peshawar at the foot of the Khyber Pass. When her husband dies in the Great War, she returns to her...

NW is Zadie Smith’s masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith’s brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners – Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – after they’ve left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives....

Slip one A year after her husband’s death, Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. Knit two together The boys are thriving in their new seaside home, the wool shop is starting...

Weequahic, the Jewish suburb of Newark, New Jersey, and a character whose simple belief in human progress and humanist perfection is tested by the strains of a polio epidemic. Set against World War 2 the novel explores loss of...

New York City in 2012, the sweltering summer before Hurricane Sandy hits. Kate, a young woman newly arrived from England, is staying in a Manhattan apartment while she tries to figure out her future. She has two unfortunate responsibilities...