The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers – to rebuild, to fill the factories, to make the new NHS work. From all over the world and with many motives, thousands of individuals took the plunge. Most assumed they would spend just three or four years here, sending most of their pay back home, but instead large numbers stayed – and transformed the country. Drawing on an amazing array of unusual and surprising sources, Clair Wills’ wonderful […]
HOW THE BLACK PANTHERS CHALLENGED WHITE SUPREMACY Even a cursory look at U.S. society today reveals […]
Ein Anschlag bei einem regionalen Filmfestival in South Dakota. Es gibt über 20 Tote. Verdächtige Islamisten, […]
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Glasgow, 1957. It is a December night and William Watt is desperate. His family has been […]
The bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying psychological thriller As tantalizing […]
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The shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young […]
Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person […]
In these “urgently relevant essays,”* the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me […]
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern […]
Meet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and […]
Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, […]
A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every […]
A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning […]
The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet — from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man […]
Six weeks to write for your life… In this blistering story of a ghostwriter haunted by […]
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, an electric novel not just about who we want […]
A prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for the first time ‘Absolutely, definitively alone’, a young […]
Blood and Land is a dazzling, panoramic account of the history and achievements of Native North […]
Live Long Enough is No 20 in the New Garland Series of poetry books, now published […]
Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the […]
From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates […]
In The Naked Swiss: A Nation Behind 10 Myths, Clare O’Dea promises to change the way […]
When she is born her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the […]
Harry Bosch works cold cases, helping out the under-funded San Fernando police department. When a double […]
An adrenaline-charged crime caper that features smart, detailed world-building based on real science and the charm […]
By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, […]
A Writer’s Journey From the author of My Brilliant Friend This book invites readers into Elena […]
In these pages, Richard Russo returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to […]