She found sanctuary in a supermarket. Now she's about to lose it.Keiko isn't normal. At school and university, people find her odd, and her family worries she will never fit in. To make them...
A profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers, their routes and the act of walking
Perhaps the most famous performance artist in the world has led a wholly unique, artistically groundbreaking, passion-filled life--one that she examines through the powerful lens of the...
In de keuken van Soenil Bahadoer komen Oost en West samen. In zijn tweesterrenrestaurant De Lindehof in het Brabantse Nuenen verrast hij de papillen van zijn gasten. Kosmopolitische...
"Presents an in-depth humorous look at Dutch life, quirks, customs, and character, with observations of Dutch behavior in the Netherlands and abroad; includes appendices on Dutch idioms,...
Written in 1966 during work on Blonde On Blonde, Tarantula is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in which it was written, and gives a unique insight into...
A hilarious yet profound and revealing look at the Dutch, their customs and their mentality. This exquisite satire explores the most diverse aspects of daily Dutch life, from coffee to child...
The genius behind such songs as "Suzanne" and "Hallelujah", Leonard Cohen has been one of the important and influential songwriters of our time, a man of spirituality, emotion
'A book that blazes, glitters and cuts to the heart of who we are. I'm not sure that a book can do much more' SUNDAY TIMES
'The kind of bold, timely, once-in-a-generation book that every...
Building on the success of Bob Dylan in His Own Words, an autobiographical portrait of the acclaimed musical performer recounts personal and professional experiences and features...
Seventy per cent of the earth's surface is covered by water. This vast aquatic realm is inhabited by a multitude of strange creatures and reigning supreme among them are the fish. As well as...
The turbulent life of Vincent van Gogh is a constant source of inspiration and intrigue for artists and art lovers. In this beautiful graphic biography, artist and writer Barbara Stok...
I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig. That's a cruel thing to...
'Gorgeous. Very, very funny in a knowing wry way but so tender, so beautiful. I loved all the characters.' Marian Keyes'Warm, witty, touching - and frequently hilarious' David Nicholls,...
Paperback edition of Moran's popular guide to her own brand of feminism, which was brilliantly received by the critics when it was published in trade paperback. There's never been a better...
Humorvoll erzählter Kindheitsroman aus der Perspektive eines aufgeweckten 10jährigen, der im Arbeiterviertel einer irischen Stadt seine wichtigsten Erfahrungen auf der Strasse macht.
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters, ride - fighting, shooting, and drinking their way to...
Like so many of us, Sergio Herman has been captivated by Italian food culture for years. Rooted in the family traditions of both Italy and the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland and using...
Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel -...
Now a major motion picture starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Sarah Waters's...
little scratch is a fierce, bold and wryly moving depiction of what it means to live out just a single day humming with trauma. 'An extremely perceptive depiction of power and agency.'...
Journalist Moran provides a new way of looking at feminism in this humorous book that blends memoir with polemic. There's never been a better time to be a woman, with the vote and the...
"Twelve people on the move around planet Earth, twelve individual lives, each in turmoil, and each in some way touching the next. In this nuanced and deeply moving sequence, David Szalay's...
'Paula Spencer' begins on the eve of Paula's 48th birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're...
In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter...
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters, ride - fighting, shooting, and drinking their way to...
'You can't get around Kate Battista as easily as all that'. Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty...
Meet Veblen: a passionate defender of the anti-consumerist views of her name-sake, the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen. She's an experienced cheerer-upper (mainly of her...
Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown, north Dublin. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the...
Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and younger sister Bunny? Dr Battista has other problems. After years out in the...
'A magnificent achievement' Guardian
'Roddy Doyle has done the impossible- he has made Paula Spencer even more unforgettable the second time round' The Times
When we first met Paula Spencer-...
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters, ride - fighting, shooting, and drinking their way to...
When we first met Paula Spencer - in The Woman Who Walked into Doors - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together. Paula Spencer begins on the...
Helen Scales shares the secrets of fish, unhitching them from their reputation as cold-hearted, unknowable beasts and reinventing them as clever, emotional, singing, thoughtful animals, and...
little scratch tells the story of a day in the life of an unnamed woman, living in a lower-case world of demarcated fridge shelves and office politics;
'She writes with such heartening VIM and warmth about all the important stuff. #MoreThanAWoman is my FRIEND, untangling a lot of my confusion about doing feminism right' Marian Keyes
'Ten...