Meet the mega human: colossal, clueless . . .and the biggest hope for life on earthThere are eight billion of us humans. All breathing, eating, fidgeting and thinking deep thoughts. It's an unimaginably large number.Or is it?
'Fantastic' Lee Child'Absolutely brilliant' Mick HerronIf the truth's in the shadows, get out of the light . . .Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he's dead and it was no accident. Besides a distraught family and a heap of powerful friends, Carter's left behind his share of enemies.So, who dealt the fatal blow?
Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment-a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin.
What does it mean to be an explorer in the twenty-first century?
In his sharply crafted, unnerving first collection of speculative fiction shorts, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora.
BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is Kristallnacht, and synagogues are being burnt, Jews rounded up and their businesses destroyed.
When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence.
The fourth adventure in the enchanted Mirrorworld leads to the Far East, where Jacob and Fox finally track down Will, who is travelling with a one of Jacob's worst enemies. Putting his feelings aside, Jacob agrees to travel with them to the beautiful Island of the Foxes in quest of another magical Mirror.
A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Liebling, S.N. Behrman, Luc Sante, Joseph Mitchell, and Lillian Ross; plus, portraits of their editors William Shawn and New Yorker founder Harold Ross.Together: they invented modern magazine journalism.
1930s Leningrad. As a mood of fear cloaks the city, Investigator Vasily Zaitsev is called on to investigate a series of bizarre and seemingly motiveless murders. In each case, the victim is curiously dressed and posed in extravagantly arranged settings.At the same time, one by one precious old master paintings are going missing from the Hermitage collection.
'This is Rayner at his rambunctious best: upfront, full-fat, and always deliciously written.' Nigella Lawson'A sophisticated palate and a fiery, comic tongue. Jay Rayner's food writing is brilliant.' Stanley TucciWhy are gravy stains on your shirt at the dinner table to be admired? Does bacon improve everything? And is gin really the devil's work?
This collection begins in the early 1980s with The Rainbow Sign, which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette. It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by the film: race, class, sexuality - issues that were provoked by his childhood and family situation.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREGuatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas.
**OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD****A 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR**WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE INTERNATIONAL SENSATIONA SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Captivating' DONNA TARTT'I loved it' J K ROWLING'Ravishingly vivid' EMMA DONOGHUEGreece in the age of heroes.
The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerWith a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales'A stunningly moving book about the power of hope and love to overcome the very worst of mankind' Piers MorganWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he'd written 'Good luck and happiness'.
Evil always seeks a foothold. We must not give it one. The electrifying conclusion to the New York Times and Indiebound bestselling Serpent & Dove trilogy is perfect for fans of Sarah J.Maas and Kendare Blake. Lou has spent her whole life running. Now, after a crushing blow from Morgane, the time has come to go home-and claim what is rightfully hers.
O próze Večne je zelený, ktorá vznikala v sedemdesiatych rokoch, no prvýkrát vyšla až v roku 1989, autor povedal: „Je pravda, že o novele Večne je zelený som bol presvedčený, že nikdy nevyjde, a nielen pre režim. Možno aj vedomie, že ju nikto nebude čítať, spôsobilo, že sa mi písala báječne, uvoľnene.
Poviedková zbierka, ktorá prvý raz vyšla v roku 1986, pokrýva všetky Slobodove témy: vzťahy medzi mužom a ženou, otcom a synom, vzťah v pracovnom kolektíve i v rodine. Navonok sa poviedky javia ako humorné, no v skutočnosti sú vážne, odkrývajú vnútorné stavy a zážitky človeka tej doby.
Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel.Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire is one of the hottest science fiction debuts around. For those who loved Ann Leckie's epic space opera Ancillary Justice, Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth and Iain M. Banks's Culture novels.Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award.Shortlisted for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards.
A novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here, and why life isn't quite how she imagined it was going to be. And who is desperately trying to figure it all out when everyone around them is making gluten-free brownies. Meet Nell.Her life is a mess. In a world of perfect Instagram lives, she feels like a f**k up.