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Der Kunsthistoriker und vielfache Bestsellerautor Florian Illies schreibt begeistert und begeisternd wie kaum jemand anderes über Kunst. Florian Illies porträtiert seine persönlichen Helden von Max Friedlaender über Gottfried Benn und Harry Graf Kessler bis hin zu Andy Warhol. Und er erkundet, warum die besten Maler des 19.

Beyond Beauty, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever told and whose daring and prescient imagination sparked a lasting transformation of modern...

Hell of a Good Time by Brandon Presser is a forthcoming title from Celadon Books...

A three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist tells the story of how secrets shaped her life—from her family’s escape from Communist Romania to her years covering terrorism—in this sweeping memoir that doubles as a political thriller. Almost before I could talk, I learned there was something...

From Gaza to the White House, she carried the stories of people the world tried to forget. Raised in Palestine, Nadia Bilbassy grew up in a place where beauty and hardship existed side by side—where family, memory, and resilience were woven into daily life, even as conflict pressed in from all...

A revealing portrait of the cultural giant who transformed American letters. In this buoyant book-length study of the man, Joe Mysak, who first met Wolfe in 1977, obliges. Mysak shows us a Wolfe who was an assassin on the page yet prized politeness and manners.

The Bloomsbury Group of influential British writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, whose most prominent members were Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keyes and Roger Fry, has starkly divided opinion ever since its lofty...

Nestled amidst the divisiveness in our country is a soulfulness that brings us together. You just need to look for it. From CBS News correspondent David Begnaud—whose “Beg-Knows America” stories have touched millions—comes The Best of Us, a powerful and deeply human exploration of the...

The Understudy has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

The first biography of Sue Townsend, the brilliant and satirical mind behind the iconic teenage diarist Adrian Mole. Sue Townsend grew up in working class Leicestershire and left school at 14. In the 70s she was a young single mother working in youth and community services, writing on the side...

We Built This City, a new Mudlark book, full description to follow when available...

A powerhouse portrait of an acclaimed writer who pummeled politicians, profiled Mafia kingpins, and gave voice to the poor and powerless. Sometimes a towering figure from our past can help us understand our present. Jimmy Breslin is that figure—a journalist who spent most of his prodigious...

The Last Correspondent: Anthony Shadid, the Middle East, and the Ruins of War by Philip Bennett and Steve Fainaru is a forthcoming title from Celadon Books...

Bestselling author John Kenney writes a luminous, powerful memoir about the long tail of grief—the ways it hides, the ways it shapes us, and what it means, finally, to mourn someone fully, even if it takes half a lifetime to find the words. When John Kenney's mother died, the Boston Globe ran her obituary. After writing his bestselling novel about an obituary writer, I See You've Called in Dead, Kenney couldn't stop thinking about the impossibility of summing up a person's life in that small format, in just 74 words.

Bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume documents the frenzied race to write the definitive account of the Manson murders—a race that included the likes of literary icons Truman Capote and Joan Didion. Three years after Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood took the literary world by storm and made...

He had been, in all the important ways, an impeccable father. And he had been, in all the important ways, a terrible son. James Wood grew up in a household shaped by evangelical fervour, social ambition and the peculiar faultlines of English class. His mother, Sheila, was anxious, aspirational...

William Morris inspires us to widen our horizons. Once celebrated as a poet, he is now best known for his wallpaper and textile designs. But he was also a pioneering manufacturer who invested in the wellbeing of his workforce; a traveller in the wildernesses of Iceland; a translator; an activist...

An intimate encounter with four young poets on their way to literary fame in the legendary grit and glitter of postwar New York "I defy readers to withstand the romance of the moment Kindley so beautifully describes and to resist the urge to relive it through the New York School Poets’ verse...

The fascinating, never-before-told story of Arcangela Tarabotti, a 17th century Venetian nun who set the European literary world alight, advocating for women and combatting misogyny in her time. Set amid the extravagance of 17th-century Venice, Arcangela unearths the biography of an iconoclastic...