Category Archives: Shower Curtains
New York Drawings
Two strangers, both reading the same novel, share a fleeting glance between passing subway cars. A bookstore owner locks eyes with a neighbor as she receives an Amazon package. Strangers are united by circumstance as they wait on the subway stairs for a summer storm to pass. Instantly recognizable, Adrian Tomine`s illustrations and comics have
Shakespeare`s Kings
In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare`s Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare`s history plays, from Edward III to Richard III. In a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare – when the crown was constantly contested, alliances were made and broken, and the people rose up in revolt – this was the raw material
The Discomfort of Evening: WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020
*WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN`S BEST BOOKS OF 2020**A NYT CRITICS` TOP BOOK OF 2020*`One of the best debut novels I have ever read. Shockingly good … A classic.` Max PorterThe sensational Dutch bestseller:`Exceptional` (Financial Times)`Exhilarating` (Independent)`Luminous` (Observer)`Beautifully wild` (Guardian)`An earthy and irreverent new voice, thrillingly uninhibited` (New York Times)I
Enigma Variations
From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man`s path through the great loves of his life. Paul`s intense desires, losses
Liberty Faber Poetry Diary 2022
The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are arguably the finest of their generation. The Liberty Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of
Faber Poetry Diary 2022
The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are arguably the finest of their generation. The Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this
Why Did Europe Conquer the World?
Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations–such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution–fail to provide
Europe`s Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt
Originally conceived as part of a unifying vision for Europe, the euro is now viewed as a millstone around the neck of a continent crippled by vast debts, sluggish economies, and growing populist dissent. In Europe`s Orphan, leading economic commentator Martin Sandbu presents a compelling defense of the euro. He argues that rather than blaming
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal`s navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East – then set about creating the first long-range
Turkish Awakening: A Personal Discovery of Modern Turkey
Born in London to a Turkish mother and British father, Alev Scott moved to Istanbul to discover what it means to be Turkish in a country going through rapid change, a country with an extraordinary past and an ever more surprising present. From the European buzz of modern-day Constantinople to the Arabic-speaking towns of the
The Widow
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. `If you liked GONE GIRL and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, you might want to pick up THE WIDOW by Fiona Barton. “Engrossing. Suspenseful”. (Stephen King). We`ve all seen him: the man – the monster – staring from the front page of every newspaper, accused of a
Falling Freely, as If in A Dream
From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction – and one of the best crime writers of our time-a new critically acclaimed novel centered around the unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. It`s August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Sweden has opened
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, Anya von Bremzen grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable. In 1974, when Anya
Cruel Crossing: Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees
The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep – the more so in the dark and in winter. Even for the fit the journey is a formidable challenge. Hundreds of those who climbed through the Pyrenees during the Second World War were malnourished and exhausted after weeks on the run hiding in barns
A History of Loneliness
Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran`s devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people`s faith
The Dark
Set in rural Ireland, John McGahern`s second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a human
The Jukebox Queen Of Malta
It is 1942 and the island of Malta is under siege by the dominant German air force. Out of the smoke and magnesium glare of bomb blast steps Rocco Raven, native of Brooklyn, New York, apprentice radioman and expert secondhand car dealer. His only contact is an American secret serviceman, Fingerley, whose rank upgrades with
Rick Stein`s Mediterranean Escapes
Approach the Mediterranean Sea from any direction and you know you`ve entered a different world. Rick Stein`s culinary odyssey takes in both the islands and coast of this remarkable region. Travelling often by public ferry boat, and encountering extraodinary people along the way, Rick has sought out the very best of the region`s food. This
Walk the Blue Fields
A long-haired woman moves into the priest`s house and sets fire to his furniture. That Christmas, the electricity goes out. A forester mortgages his land and goes off to a seaside town looking for a wife. He finds a woman eating alone in the hotel. A farmer wakes half-naked and realises the money is almost
The Vanishing Futurist
When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914, she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead, nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them. Yet as her intimacy with the charismatic inventor, Nikita Slavkin, deepens, she`s inspired by his belief in a future free
