When I Fell From the Sky - Prijzen

Bitter Almonds

Bitter Almonds is a remarkable memoir, a tribute to Sicilian food and culture, and the record of an historic and vanishing craft. At the heart of the book are forty-six recipes of unique Sicilian spec...

In Byron's Footsteps

When Tessa de Loo saw Albania for the first time, no foreigners were allowed to enter. Filled with a great curiosity, longing, and a sense of wonderment by this isolated land, de Loo gazed toward the...

Jackdaw Cake An Autobiography

In Jackdaw Cake Norman Lewis recounts the first half of his adventurous life with dry, infectious, laconic wit, observing the transformation of a stammering schoolboy into a worldly wise multilingua...

Miss-Adventures

'Watch out for men with too much wooden jewellery, Amy. I know what you're like... you'll let them sucker you in with their yoga chat but essentially, they're unwashed... and you don't want to put you...

Annapurna

Am 3. Juni 1950 erreicht erstmals ein Mensch den Gipfel eines Achttausenders: Der Franzose Maurice Herzog steht auf der schmalen Firnscheide der 8091 m hohen Annapurna. Der dramatische Abstieg mit sei...

Im Schatten des Kreml

Die schönsten Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg

Orientreisen

Bronte Sisters Deluxe Edition (Wuthering Heights; Villette)

A sumptuous, double foiled, deluxe edition combining Emily Bronte's tale of tortured romance, Wuthering Heights, with her sister Charlotte's neglected masterpiece, a passionate narrative of repressed...

Father Christmas Goes on Holiday

In this hilarious sequel from Raymond Briggs, author of The Snowman and inspiration for The Snowman and The Snowdog, a still rather grumpy Father Christmas decides to go on holiday. No-one needs a ho...

Spanish Tragedy

The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the hist...

The Inheritance

Written in 1849, when Louisa May Alcott was just seventeen years old, this is a captivating tale of Edith Adelon, an impoverished Italian orphan who innocently wields the charms of virtue, beauty, and...