Women Who Blow on Knots - Prijzen

La fille qui lisait dans le metro

Juliette prend le métro tous les jours à la même heure. La ligne 6, c'est chez elle. Elle aime y observer ceux qui lisent : la vieille dame, le collectionneur d'éditions rares, la jeune fille qui pleu...

Life Death Prizes

Shortlisted for the 2012 COSTA Novel Award Billy's Mum is dead. He knows - because he reads about it in magazines - that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than...

Post Office Girl

It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's...

The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

In this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the The Machine of Understanding Other People, the story of a Chicago...

Doctor Who The Eyeless

At the heart of the ruined city of Arcopolis is the Fortress. It's a brutal structure placed here by one of the sides in a devastating intergalactic war that's long ended. Fifteen years ago, the entir...

Little Grey Rabbit: The Knot Squirrel Tied

Rat has a knot in his tail that he just can't untie - and it's getting in the way of all his thieving. There's only one thing for it, according to Owl. Rat will have to turn over a new leaf. But can h...

Das Böse naht

Catch 22

Captain Yossarián muss im II. Weltkrieg Kampfeinsätze fliegen, auch wenn er sie für idiotisch hält. Um diesem Irrsinn zu entkommen, beschließt er, den Rest des Krieges im Lazarett von Pianosa zu verbr...

Defiant Diplomat: George Platt Waller

Drafted while events were fresh in his mind in 1942-1943, Alabama-born American diplomat George Platt Waller's memoir chronicles his war-time experience in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In vivid pros...

The Library

This spectacular book is the first single volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world. Throughout the ages, book collections have served to symbolize thei...

Bad Blood

Bad blood comes to the fore when star-crossed love ends in murder... One hundred years of bad blood between two Alaskan villages come to a boil when a young Kushtaka man is found dead. The prime s...

Songs Of Kabir

A New York Review Books OriginalTranscending divisions of creed, challenging social distinctions of all sorts, and celebrating individual unity with the divine, the poetry of Kabir is one of passion a...