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Der Ruhm der "Schachnovelle" liegt nicht nur darin begründet, weil es das letzte Werk des österreichischen Schriftstellers ist, sondern vor allem, dass es in mehr als 60 Sprachen übersetzt wurde und weltweit überaus erfolgreich verkauft wurde.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the boldly imagined tale of a poor boy’s quest for wealth and love. His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically inventive storyteller with his finger on the world’s pulse. How to Get Filthy Rich in...

The animals of Manor Farm are in the midst of a revolution. Overworked and mistreated, they set themselves against Mr Jones and with flaming idealism and stirring slogans they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice and equality; only to find that revolution isn’t always so simple.

'I couldn't put it down. I'll never stop thinking about it' Ann Patchett 'One hell of a novel about a good woman on the run with her beautiful boy' Stephen King FEAR KEEPS THEM RUNNING. HOPE KEEPS THEM ALIVE. Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, AMERICAN DIRT is the first novel to explore the...

Ein Anruf aus dem Hospiz: Ihr Kindheitsfreund Yigal, den Lizzie vierzig Jahre lang nicht gesehen hat, bittet sie, sein letzter Besuch kurz vor seinem Tod zu sein. Aber warum ausgerechnet sie? Yigals Erfahrungen in der israelischen Armee machten ihn zum Aktivisten gegen die Politik seines Heimatlandes. Als Tochter einer Holocaust-Überlebenden hielt Lizzie ihn für einen Verräter und wandte sich von ihm ab. Jetzt stellt sie sich der Frage, wer damals wen verraten hat. In den frühen Morgenstunden und voller Erinnerungen im Gepäck macht Lizzie sich auf den Weg.

After scheming his way to power in House of Cards, Francis Urquhart made a triumphant return in To Play the King - a Sunday Times number one best-seller that became a BBC TV series, with Ian Richardson resuming his award-winning role as Francis Urquhart, and a hugely successful Netflix series. 

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK! A "gripping thriller with compassionate social commentary" (USA Today) about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake...

García Márquez construyó, en El otoño del patriarca, una maquinaria narrativa perfecta que desgrana una historia universal -la agonía y muerte de un dictador- en forma cíclica, experimental y real al mismo tiempo, en seis bloques narrativos sin diálogos, sin puntos y aparte, repitiendo una anécdota siempre igual y siempre distinta, acumulando hechos y descripciones deslumbrantes.

Bloomsbury presents Against the Loveless World written and read by Susan Abulhawa. A thrilling, defiant novel' FATIMA BHUTTO 'A masterpiece' MARC LAMONT HILL 'Wonderful ... Shines a ray of hope into some very dark places' MICHAEL PALIN 'A fearless work of imagination' AHDAF SOUEIF Winner of the...

Eigentlich sollte der junge Franzisk Cello üben fürs Konservatorium, doch lieber genießt er das Leben in Minsk. Auf dem Weg zu einem Rockkonzert verunfallt er schwer und fällt ins Koma. Alle, seine Eltern, seine Freundin, die Ärzte, geben ihn auf. Nur seine Großmutter ist überzeugt, dass er eines Tages wieder die Augen öffnen wird. Und nach einem Jahrzehnt geschieht das auch. Aber Zisk erwacht in einem Land, das in der Zeit eingefroren scheint. Wie fühlt sich ein junger, lebenshungriger Mann in Belarus? Eine hochaktuelle Geschichte über die Sehnsucht nach Freiheit.

A wrongfully imprisoned storyteller spins stories from his jail cell that just might have the power to save him—and take down a corrupt government. Arrested on accusations of witchcraft and treason, Chant finds himself trapped in a cold, filthy jail cell in a foreign land. With only his...

For Cal, some of the choices are devastatingly simple. . . He can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella. Springing out of the fear and violence of Ulster, CAL is a haunting love stroy in a land were tenderness and...

Die Texte der Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preisträgerin Sharon Dodua Otoo nun in einem Band. Über Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin urteilt die Jury: "Ein cooler Text" als die Autorin mit ihrer ersten auf Deutsch geschriebenen Erzählung 2016 den Bachmann-Preis gewann. Vier Jahre später hielt Otoo dort selbst die Eröffnungsrede: Dürfen Schwarze Blumen Malen? Ihre Mischung aus Polemik und Humor, Gesellschaftskritik und Empathie sorgte wieder für Furore. Das neue Buch vereinigt beide Texte mit einem weiteren, bisher unveröffentlichtem, einer imaginären Reise mit den Eltern nach Klagenfurt.

Brought to you by Penguin. Auxilio Lacouture is trapped. For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of her university. Staring at the floor, she begins a heartfelt and feverish tale: she is the Mother of Mexican poetry. A highly charged first-person semi-hallucinatory...

A fictional portrayal of an aging revolutionary, this novel is a powerful commentary on the nightmare politics of the troubled 20th century. Born in Hungary in 1905, a defector from the Communist Party in 1938, and then arrested in both Spain and France for his political views, Arthur Koestler writes from a wealth of personal experience.

At the heart of this story is an interracial couple, Steve and Jabulile, living in a newly – tentatively – free South Africa. He is a university lecturer, she a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now parents of children born in freedom. There is nothing so extraordinary about their lives, and yet, in telling their story, and the stories of their friends and families, Gordimer manages to capture the tortured, fragmented essence of a nation struggling to define itself in the post-apartheid world.

Abridged edition, read by Dan Stevens (Legion, Downton Abbey) The first in Ken Follett's breathtaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for...

In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed...

Geordie Sharp sendes til Rusland for at træne elitetropperne til kampen mod den tjetjenske mafias omsiggribende kriminalitet, men samtidig skal han hemmeligt anbringe to atombomber, som kan detoneres ved en eventuel magtforskydning i landet. Chris Ryan er et pseudonym for en tidligere soldat...

Winner of the 1970 lost Man Booker prize in 2010. Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But...