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An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House...

Strandloper, a new Fourth Estate book, full description to follow when available...

Seventh Wife, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

From Adam Thirlwell, two-time winner of the Granta Award for Best British Novelists, comes a deeply personal and illuminating novel about a writer, his mysterious illness, and the family secrets that upend his understanding of his parents and of his own role as a father. Adam is a writer and...

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

Neue, aberwitzig Erzählungen aus einem Jahr außer Rand und Band, die genau da weitermachen, wo 1913 – Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts aufhört! Florian Illies erzählt mit Poesie, Witz und sprachlicher Eleganz von seinen neuen Funden aus dem letzten Jahr vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg: Hermann Hesse flieht auf Skiern aus seiner Ehe, Marcel Proust besticht seine Kritiker mit Gebäck, Giacomo Puccini hat keine Lust mehr auf ein Duell – und Rilke hat natürlich wieder Schnupfen, diesmal in Bad Rippoldsau.

I often hated my brother, but I have to understand his life. The unflinching story of Édouard Louis’s brother’s violent life and death. Édouard’s brother spends much of his life dreaming. He lives in a poor, working-class world, where he imagines that he will become one of the finest...

New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir brings to life the mysterious Lady Katherine Gordon, a beautiful Scotswoman who unknowingly married a pretender to the British throne—while harboring a powerful secret of her own. One of British history’s most tragic stories is the sad fate of...

Lion is the story of a father and a daughter. About growing up with the unlikeliest of fathers: a charismatic bon vivant, a polo player, race-car driver, cocaine addict, ex-con, pilot, and skydiver. A minor god who comes down to earth in a grand manner, falling in all the ways there are to fall...

Flowers don't grow in concentration camps… Georg Gottlieb knows this better than anyone. Before the war, he was a joker, madly in love with Rose and living in Prague – but he had a gift for forgery that condemned him to one of the Nazis most secret projects: the counterfeiting of British...

A poet, a lover, and a royal scandal... Margaret Douglas is a close confidante of Princess Mary, and at court with Anne Boleyn where she joins a collective, writing romantic verse for 'The Devonshire Manuscript'. There, she also falls deeply in love with the dashing young Thomas Howard, a fellow...

After giving birth, Anna is no longer sure who she is. She and her family have moved to Stockholm, a strange city buried beneath the snow. As anxiety closes in, Anna spends her days scrolling endlessly through the news and buying clothes she cannot afford. Desperate to keep herself from...

Queen Berhta welcomed Augustine to Kent in 597, offering him the only Christian church in the kingdom and the quiet strength of her own faith. It was her influence - especially her work among the women of Kent - that softened the ground for his mission. Yet history has sainted Augustine of...

A woman’s fierce desire to live by her own rules exacts a tragic price, in this heart-wrenching novel by “the literary grandmaster of Colombia” (New York Review of Books) Feliza is back in Paris, the city where decades ago she took flight into a sculptor’s life. “The first face you...

Für ihre Kinder findet sie den Mut, ihrem gewalttätigen Ehemann die Stirn zu bieten Kasachstan, 1955: In einer eiskalten Nacht bei Minusgraden wird die kleine Katharina als Tochter deutschstämmiger Eltern geboren. Sie wächst in einer von Härte und Lieblosigkeit geprägten Welt auf. Ihre...

Her charisma changed lives.​ Her art changed history.​ Paris, 1930. Amrita Sher-Gil arrives at the École des Beaux-Arts – its youngest student, its first Indian – and begins painting canvases that will change art history. Brilliant, vivacious and utterly ungovernable, she tears through...

A bewildered American mother and her two daughters spend an adventurous year in Aix-en-Provence, where an aloof mutt presides at the family’s favorite cafés. An essential treat for lovers of the work of M.F.K. Fisher, The Boss Dog is a fictionalized memoir of the author’s time in the south...

Von Affen und Menschen: Als Jane Goodall Franziskus begegnete Unter dem Deckenfresko »Die Erschaffung Adams« sitzen sie auf Stühlen nebeneinander und legen die Köpfe in den Nacken. Über ihnen das Bild Michelangelos, auf dem Gott seine Hand zu Adam streckt. Jane zieht ein Foto hervor, von...

»Genau der Schriftsteller, den wir brauchen.« Daniel Kehlmann Nach einem Fahrradunfall erwacht der Erzähler, ein Schriftsteller, in eine verwandelte Wahrnehmung: Ein mysteriöser Glanz liegt über den Dingen, die Grenzen des Körpers lösen sich auf, Visionen und Ahnungen stellen sich ein...

In 1904, Ota Benga, a young Congolese 'pygmy' - a person of petite stature - arrived from central Africa and was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair. Two years later, the New York Zoological Gardens displayed him in its Monkey House, caging the slight 103-pound...