Becoming Elektra
Becoming Elektra is an account of Elektra Records in the Jac Holzman years, from 1950 to 1973. […]
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I Put a Spell on You
In this exquisite, haunting book, John Burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery of […]
Chavs – The Demonization of the Working Class
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones Bestselling investigation into the myth and reality […]
A Classless Society – Britain in the 1990s
When Margaret Thatcher was ousted from Downing Street in November 1990 it appeared that Britain had reached […]
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 population […]
Why This World – A Biography of Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers, and now […]
Lives in Writing
A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real […]
Stuff I’ve Been Reading
Stuff I’ve Been Reading by Nick Hornby – the bestselling novelist’s rich, witty and inspiring reading diary’Read what […]
Stolen Moments
Stolen Moments. 1522 Jazzkolumnen Seit schon dreissig Jahren erscheint in jeder «Weltwoche» eine Kolumne von Peter Rüedi. […]
American Smoke – Journeys to the End of the Light
Completing the trilogy begun with Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire and continued with Ghost Milk, Iain Sinclair breaks […]
Report from the Interior
Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist […]
The Sleepwalkers
The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed […]
All the Songs
Every album and every song ever released by the Beatles—from “Please Please Me” (U.S. 1963) to “The […]
Daheim
Experten, Politiker und Journalisten beklagen, wie sich die Schweiz baulich entwickelt. Ihr Feindbild ist die Agglomeration – […]
David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, […]