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From the author of the Georgetown Trilogy, this novel tells the story of Galton Flood, a man who grows up with feelings of humiliation and inferiority. He becomes involved with a young woman and, following a murder, gradually slides into madness.
This report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in ‘The New Yorker’ in 1963. This edition contains further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book.
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in this text, originally published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams’s study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system.
Scorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which T̩t̩-Michel grew up in 1950s Togo, West Africa. When he discovered a book on Greenland as a teen, this distant land became an instant obsession Рhe was determined to journey to the place these pages had revealed to him and embarked on the adventure of a lifetime.
The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. ‘In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don’t dare disobey’, the narrator recalls. ‘Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket.’ And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator’s imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.
Whilst enjoying his retirement in the Florida sunshine Rumpole is beckoned back to the UK to help a colleague on a case that that involves a fanatical cult and a pornographer.
Truman Capote makes whiskey-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier and Italo Calvino take a cynical view of the season and Selma Lagerlof and Angela Carter celebrate its miracles. Ranging from Cork to Lagos to the Wild West, and from Paris to San Paolo to outer space, this is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time.
Velma Henry has always been a fighter but has fallen on hard times. This story uncovers a wealth of understanding about life, female friendships and the challenges facing the black community in a hostile environment.
An ageing boxer caught in a love triangle. A wealthy Parisian family on the brink of collapse. A mysterious murder in a hotel in Cannes. These tales of human frailty and deceit – three of which are being published in English for the first time – distil the atmosphere, themes and psychological intensity that make Simenon’s famous detective series so compelling. Written during the Second World War, just a few years after Simenon had published what was intended to be his last novel featuring Inspector Maigret, these stories encapsulate Simenon’s storytelling genius and economy of style.
For the past fifty years, Louise Glück has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development of a particular form: the book-length sequence of poems. This volume brings together the twelve collections Glück has published to date, offering readers the opportunity to become immersed in the artistry and vision of one of the world’s greatest living poets.
Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist, author and conservationist whose book ‘Silent Spring’ and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. Here, with the precision of a scientist and the simplicity of a fable, she reveals how man-made pesticides have destroyed wildlife, creating a world of polluted streams and silent songbirds.
This is his haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources – and why we must heed this warning.
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