Mercator - The Man Who Mapped The Planet

Crane, Nicholas
Owl, New York 2003

Crane brings the great cartographer to life (Washington Post)

Coronado

Lehane, Dennis
HarperCollins Books, London 2006

This collection is a compilation of the best of Dennis Lehane's previously published short fiction. By turns suspensful, surreal, romantic, and tragicallycomic, these powerful tales journey...

The Reason Why

Rendell, Ruth
New York 1996

Murder itself is not interesting. It is the impetus to murder, the passion and terrors which bring it to pass and the varieties of feeling surrounding the act that make of a sordid or revolting...

None to Accompany Me

Gordimer, Nadine
New York 1994

Women in South Africa. A fascinating novel by one of the most important South African writers of our time.

Love and Obstacles

Hemon, Aleksandar
Riverhead Books, London 2009

Infused with the haunting yet hilarious storytelling that makes Hemon's work so destinctive, the stories of Love and Obstacles are united by their narrator, a young man coming of age in...

Original Sin

Jacobs, Alan
HarperCollins, New York 2008

Alan Jacobs nimmt den Leser mit auf eine turbulente Reise zurück zu den Wurzeln und ursprünglichen Idee der Sünde und berichtet anschaulich von Geschichte, Entwicklung, Befürwortern und Gegnern...

Shakepeare Unbound

Weis, René
Henry Holt and Co., New York 2007

Weis versucht der wahren Person Shakespeares auf den Grund zu gehen. Viele Mythen und Geschichten wurden bereits über den wohl berühmtesten Dichter und Autor der Welt verbreitet. In diesem Band...

Loomings Over the Suet

Baxter, Glen
Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2004

Another entertainingly bizarre story from Baxter. Spring has returned once again to the Cotswolds. Flickering Shadow snake eerily over Eric huntley as he struggles to regain posession of the...

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Wolfe, Tom
London, 2010

An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and...

The Armageddon Rag

Martin, George R.R.
London, 2013

Magic, music, drugs and rock'n'roll in an early novel from George R. R. Martin, author of A GAME OF THRONES One-time underground journalist Sandy Blair has traveled far from his radical roots in...

Power Systems

Chomsky, Noam
London, 2014

Power Systems is the latest collection of searing insights from intellectual superstar Noam Chomsky. In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the...

Goodbye, Columbus

Roth, Philip
New York 2014 Vintage

Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his...

Originals

Grant, Adam
VIKING, New York, 2016

The #1 New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas-and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Give and Take and co-author of Option B!

Jane Austen

Kelly, Helena
Alfred A. Knop, New York, 2017

A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be...

America - a history in verse ( 3 Vol.)

Sanders, Edward
Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 2000

1. Auflage, Americas history in verse for every year from 1900 until 1970, Vol.1 1900-1939, Vol.2 1940-1961, Vol.3 1962-1970

Swallowing Clouds

Lillian NG
Hopewell 1997

The Moviegoer's Companion

Guy, Rhiannon
Think, London 2004

Wether you love film noir or Matt LeBlanc, Gone with the Wind or Reservoir Dogs, this is the book for you. Discover the strange and wonderful world of movies in all their bizarre and glamorous...

Vicious Circle: A Novel of Complicity

Littell, Robert
Overlook, Woodstock-New York 2006

Veteran espionage writer Littell, whose 1973 debut, The Defection of A.J. Lewinter, prompted critics to compare him to such British masters as Eric Ambler and John le Carré, stumbles a bit with his...

The General Rule. A Guide to Customary Weights and Measures

Linarce, Vivian
Squezze Press, Somerset 2007

An essential collection of articles, tables and notes, to define and explain the modern uses and relationships - as well as the global origins, evolution and culture - of the units composing what...

Churchill's Bomb

Farmelo, Graham
Basic Books, New York

Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater...

Audubon

Streshinsky, Shirley

A solid narrative biography, the first popular life of the artist in a quarter century.... The Audubon depicted here is buoyant, gifted and vain. -Boston Globe

Sullivan's Sting

Sanders, Lawrence
G. P. Putnam's Sons New York 1990

Intricately plotted, filled with a colorful cast of rascals, as sexy and suspenseful as any reader could wish, "Sullivan's Sting" mixes crime with romance, wit and action into a wonderful...

The Violinist`s Thumb

Kean, Sam
Little, Brown and Company, New York 2012

The bestsseller-author Sam Kean tells us everything to know about our genetic code, beginning with the reading of a genetic score and ending with the DNA science in the future. Sean educates the...

The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs

Random House, London, 2012

For dog lovers, from the greatest magazine in the world, an irresistible anthology of long-form essays, short humour pieces, poems, fiction, and cartoons. Nobody but The New Yorker could assemble...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Dick, Philip K.
Gollancz, London, 2010

World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things were never that simple, and...

Across the River and Into the Trees

Hemingway, Ernest
Penguin Random House, London, 2017

Richard Cantrell is an American colonel living in Venice just after the Second World War. The fighting has left him scarred and embittered, a middle-aged man with a heart condition. It seems that...

Fante Bukowski 2

Van Sciver, Noah
Fantagraphic Books, Seattle, 2017

The sequel to the three-book-series! This graphic novel catches up with aspiring young writer, Fante Bukwoski. He is trying to establish himseld in a new city's literary scene and he is coming to...

The Refugees

Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Grove Press, New York, 2017

in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when...