World Is Round - 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...

When Your Mother Doesn't

A Revealing and Intimate Story of What a Mother Will and Will Not Do for Her Daughters What kind of women do daughters become when their fathers are missing and their mothers can't love them? How d...

White Sky, Black Ice

The first Nathan Active mysteryBorn to a poor Inupiat girl in Chukchi, Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle, State Trooper Nathan Active was adopted and raised by a white family in Anchorage. Now, an un...

Dr Thorne

Compendium Carrere (El Adversario, Una Novela Rusa, de Vidas Ajenas)

With the books included here, Emmanuel Carrère took a giant step in a career that had already stood out for its uniqueness, daring and radicalism. The author explored the non-fiction novel, and the re...

Candide

Candide, unehehlicher Sohn der Schwester eines Barones, lebt mit dem Baron in dessen schönem Schloss in Westphalen. Sein Lehrer Pangloss, "der größte Philosoph des Landes und daher der ganzen Welt", l...

La Belle Créole

Known for her beauty and angelic voice, Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, la Belle Créole, was a Cuban-born star of nineteenth-century Parisian society. She befriended aristocrats and artists alike, inc...

Violet and the Hidden Treasure

Meet Violet Remy-Robinson, an amateur Sherlock Holmes in the making... Violet has spent her holidays exploring India with Godmother Celeste, including visiting Celeste's good friend the Maharajah an...

North Yorkshire

Walking is one of Britain's favourite leisure activities, and this guide to North Yorkshire features 50 mapped walks from two to ten miles, to suit all abilities. The book highlights all the practical...