Christoph Hein 
Über die Schädlichkeit des Tabaks 
oder: Ein älterer Herr hält eine Rede vor Abiturienten

In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’s army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the balance, Soviet propaganda chiefs sent …

Quite simply, this book is a work of genius – Matthew Parris, The Spectator An absolutely extraordinary book … a huge collage and anthology of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspaper reports, trial docu …

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies” life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a ‘Heavenly voice’ told her ‘There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek …

John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America – to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV” …

In 1981 a young semi-professional footballer – known as `Imam Beckenbauer” for his piety and his dominant style of play – has his career cut short after a confrontation with Turkey”s military …

”Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating” Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary Supplement A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a …

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA”S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023 A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted The United States is the richest cou …

”On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing ach …

Susan Sontag”s third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most …

For scholars of media and war, the 2003 invasion of Iraq is a compelling case to study. As part of President Bush s war on terror , the invasion was the most controversial British foreign policy …