summer holidays 2014
pile of books summer holidays 2014 July 28 – August 11
Red or Dead
In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won […]
The Thrill Of It All
A captivating novel filled with music, friendship and teenage dreams, from the bestselling author of Ghost […]
Prayers For The Stolen
It was Paula’s mother who had the brilliant idea of digging the holes. My mother said […]
The Sleepwalkers
The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from […]
Stuff I’ve Been Reading
Stuff I’ve Been Reading by Nick Hornby – the bestselling novelist’s rich, witty and inspiring reading diary […]
Lives in Writing
A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about […]
The Blazing World
Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the […]
Americanah
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY’S WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014. From the award-winning author of ‘Half of […]
A Classless Society – Britain in the 1990s
When Margaret Thatcher was ousted from Downing Street in November 1990 it appeared that Britain had […]
Can’t and Won’t
A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called “the best prose […]
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia […]
All My Puny Sorrows
You won’t forget Elf and Yoli, two smart and loving sisters. Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, […]
Something Urgent I Have to Say to You
Herbert Leibowitz’s “Something Urgent I Have to Say to You” provides a new perspective on the […]
Stolen Moments
Stolen Moments. 1522 Jazzkolumnen Seit schon dreissig Jahren erscheint in jeder «Weltwoche» eine Kolumne von Peter […]
Barracuda
Barracuda follows a young competitive swimmer who devotes his life to the sport in the hopes […]
I Put a Spell on You
In this exquisite, haunting book, John Burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery […]
Every Day is for the Thief
A young man decides to visit Nigeria after years of absence. Ahead lies the difficult journey […]
The Spinning Heart
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 Winner […]
The Free
Willy Vlautin’s stunning fourth novel opens with Leroy, a young, wounded, Iraq veteran, waking to a […]
The People – The Rise and Fall of the Working Class 1910 – 2010
What was it really like to live through the twentieth century? In 1910 three-quarters of the […]
Why This World – A Biography of Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers, and […]
Farther Away
In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns […]
Night Film
Cult horror director Stanislas Cordova hasn’t been seen in public since 1971. To his fans he […]
Levels of Life
‘You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is […]
And the Mountains Echoed
An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the […]
The Childhood of Jesus
The mysterious, masterful new novel from J.M. Coetzee, twice winner of the Booker Prize and winner […]
The Lowland
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in […]
Salinger
Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people—and published […]