The Bricks That Built the Houses

Kate Tempest's first full-length collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias. This four-part work follows him through his transformations from child, man and woman to blind prophet; through this structure, Tempest holds up a mirror to contemporary life in a direct and provocative way rarely associated with poetry.

Kate Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; her dramatic poem "Brand New Ancients" won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest's wholly unique blend of street poetry, rap, and storytelling - combined with the spellbinding delivery of an open-air revivalist - has won her legions of followers all over the UK. Her remarkable stage presence is wholly audible in this poem, a spoken story written to be told with live music.

Running Upon the Wires is Kate Tempest’s first audiobook of free-standing poetry since the acclaimed Hold Your Own. In a beautifully varied series of formal poems, spoken songs, fragments, vignettes and ballads, Tempest charts the heartbreak at the end of one relationship and the joy at the beginning of a new love but also tells us what happens in between, when the heart is pulled both ways at once.

"GRM" beginnt im England einer nahen Zukunft, wo der Neoliberalismus besonders gründliche Arbeit geleistet hat. Die Helden: vier Kinder, die nichts anderes kennen als die Realität des gescheiterten Staates. Die Hoffnung, in die sie sich flüchten, ist Grime, kurz GRM. Grime ist die größte musikalische Revolution seit dem Punk. Als die vier begreifen, dass es zu Hause keine Zukunft für sie gibt, brechen sie nach London auf. Jeder, der sich hier einen Registrierungs-Chip einpflanzen lässt, erhält ein wunderbares Grundeinkommen.

Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.