"One of the best German novels of all time." - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"Bukowski meets Withnail on schnapps. As beautiful a mess as the characters he wrote, Jorg Fauser's trawl through the anarchist squats of the 70s lays bare the seeds of Germany's new cool. While we were still making war films, Fauser ran with a generation intent on destroying the state and itself; through the voice of Harry Gelb his savage wit leaves no truth unturned in describing its most foibled and hopeless endeavour - decadent revolution. This book makes me wish I was there." - DBC Pierre
A beautifully drawn and deeply thoughtful and inventive graphic novel, moving through thousands of years of history and future without leaving the suburban sitting room in which it is set.
"Lush, overwhelming, complex, complicated yet unpretentious; it’s an amalgam of vibrant hues and textures, drawing approaches, narrative lines and surfaces that feels in its totality like the first successful attempt to visually recreate the matrix of memory and human understanding of time. An underlying thrum of the larger concerns of life – love, loneliness, sex, death – repeats, echoes, builds, and ultimately resolves into what is both a scientific apprehension and a poetic evocation of the mechanism that lends life its poignancy." - Chris Ware, Guardian
An intriguing novel set in a dystopian Melbourne following environmental apocalypse.
"One of those wonderfully quirky novels that giddies with the quality of its imagination, A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists is reminiscent of early Paul Auster, most notably In the Country of Last Things. There's something too of the sheer storytelling joy that you find in Neil Gaiman, the meaning subsidiary to the narrative adventure. Rawson has taken risks with plausibility and triumphed." - The Australian
In the winter of 1970, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and argued, about the future of food, the meaning of taste, and the limits of snobbery. Without quite realizing it, they were shaping today's tastes and culture, the way we eat now. The conversations among this group were chronicled by M.F.K. Fisher in journals and letters which were later discovered by Luke Barr, her great-nephew.
Two young friends join an uprising against Uganda's corrupt regime in the early 1970s. As the line blurs between idealism and violence, one of them flees for his life. In a quiet Midwestern town in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, an African student falls for the woman who helps him settle in. Prejudice overshadows their relationship, yet it is equally haunted by the past. Both men are called Isaac. But are they one and the same?
"Fascinating." - Guardian
"Beautiful." - New York Times
"Desperately moving." - Sunday Telegraph
A vibrant account of childhood and the making of the great narrative historian.
For decades the story of Ravensbruck was hidden behind the Iron Curtain and today is still little known. Using testimony unearthed since the end of the Cold War, and interviews with survivors who have never spoken before, Helm has ventured into the heart of the camp, demonstrating for the reader in riveting detail how easily and quickly the unthinkable horror evolved.
"A tremendous feat of historical rescue." - Anne Applebaum
A desperate love story set in war-torn Kashmir.
"The effect of this tense novel is cumulative, its sense of dread rising until the nightmarish finale; a communal outpouring of grief in which Waheed locates an incredible defiance. Waheed writes about war with a devastating and unflinching calm, with the melancholy wisdom of someone attuned to but never hardened by its horrors." - Guardian
"A thriller with a difference. Very cleverly written, it kept me intrigued as I surmised, predicted and analysed my way through each chapter. Not an easy read, I found myself re-reading often just to sort out in my mind the nuances and details. A very worthwhile read." - Lynn
A book of 26 quirky postcards by the outstandingly wry architectural artist, each interpreting an architect's work as the letter of the alphabet with which her or his name begins. Perfect for modern architecturophiles.
>> Babina's other work is certainly work is worth perusing.
One unmistakable feature of the Indian highway is the presence of these brightly decorated trucks that ply the country's roads. The men who drive these trucks spend long hours on the road and can be away from their families for weeks at a time, so their trucks act as a second home and they take great pride in them. In Horn Please photographer Dan Eckstein travelled across India's byzantine and burgeoning road network documenting these elaborate trucks - representing a blinding mash up of new and old India.
Novelist, comics writer, scriptwriter, poet, occasional artist - a master of several genres and inadvertent leader of many cults - there are few creative avenues Neil Gaiman hasn't ventured down. From unforgettable books like The Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods to ground-breaking comics and graphic novels like The Sandman and Violent Cases; from big screen fantasies like Coraline to small screen epics like Doctor Who; and from short stories to songwriting, stage plays to radio plays, journalism to filmmaking, and all points in-between, The Art of Neil Gaiman is the first comprehensive, full-colour examination of Gaiman's work to date.
Wylie (Coyote) Melville, a therapist who serves as a “volunteer forensic consultant” for the Everglades County Police Department suspects an apparent family murder/suicide isn't at all what it seems...
"A ghoulishly funny crime novel. Dufresne is an original talent. His humor is frightfully dark, but it’s also quite dazzling. " - New York Times
Documents the wildly successful Leonard Cohen World Tour through the eyes of his friend and long-time collaborator, who has been at his side for over 400 shows.
If you've ever wanted to live in Sense and Sensibility (or some other novel), now you can!
Gritty low-level crime stories set in Washington DC's meanest streets, from one of the writers of The Wire.
A biography, drawing on Herzl's published works and diaries, of the man who founded the World Zionist Organisation in 1897, and who rejected Jewish integration or emancipation in favour of mass transportation to a yet-to-be-defined Jewish state.
The year-that-was as caught in the pages of this leading English-language newspaper.
Taking as her starting point images from the holdings of the National Portrait Gallery, London, writer and art historian Lucinda Hawksley explores the history of facial hair, from prehistoric times to the present day. Entertaining and informative, this fascinating foray into our hairy past is the perfect gift for the pogonophile in your life or indeed anyone interested in the long and curly history of whiskers, beards and moustaches.
