A razor-sharp debut about desire, artifice and dissolution on a remote homestead in Alaska, for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Nell Zink and Miranda July Zobraziť viac
A daughter born between two cultures - the US and Japan - grapples with the question: where is my home, and how will I recognise it when I reach it? Zobraziť viac
'The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman Zobraziť viac
An epic, spellbinding novel of rebellion, redemption, power and humanity, and of a Black community finding freedom to live an ordinary life of love and pain in America's darkest days. Zobraziť viac
A collection of intimate and explosive essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from the award-winning author of Go, Went Gone and The End of Days. Zobraziť viac
A bestseller in Germany, Walter Kempowski's autobiographical novel is a sensorial coming of age story during the years of World War II and a chilling exploration of how one family adjusted to life under the Nazis. Zobraziť viac
From the author of Weasels in the Attic, here is a modern fable about the all-consuming world of work. Zobraziť viac
A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated Sabrina, about alienation and connection, performance and fantasy. Zobraziť viac
A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism revealing the complicity of the Vatican and the Swissgovernment in aiding Nazi war criminals' escape fromEurope to Argentina - reissued with a new preface byPhilippe Sands and additional material. Zobraziť viac
Every year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world, in rich countries and poor ones. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart attacks, many kinds of cancer, premature birth and dementia, among other ailments... Zobraziť viac
Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King.Why? Something to do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue, something godawful. And from every wall the King's Eye watches... Zobraziť viac
We cannot live without water. But with 7.5 billion people competing for this single unevenly-distributed resource, the planet is drying up. In When the Rivers Run Dry, Fred Pearce explores the growing world water crisis, from Kent to Kenya... Zobraziť viac
We live in a world that is known, every corner thoroughly explored. But has this knowledge cost us the ability to wonder? Wonder, Caspar Henderson argues, is at its most supremely valuable in just such a world because it reaffirms our humanity ... Zobraziť viac
What is transhumanism? Simply put, it is a movement whose aim is to use technology to fundamentally change the human... Zobraziť viac
Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly tormented by nightmarish visions of the... Zobraziť viac
Imperium is a classic of reportage and a literary masterwork by one of the great writers and witnesses of the twentieth century. It is the story of an empire... Zobraziť viac
In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately ... Zobraziť viac
Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, "The Land of Green Plums" tells the story of a group of young students, each of whom has left the impoverished provinces in search of better prospects in the city... Zobraziť viac
They...go. They vanish. People. Civilizations. Languages. Philosophies. Works of art disappear, species are extinguished, books are lost. Dunwich is drowned, Pompeii buried, Athena`s statue gone from the Parthenon, Suetonius`s Lives of the Great Whores... Zobraziť viac
A collection of short, accessible philosophical quandaries to stimulate, challenge and entertain... Zobraziť viac
