Truely amazing stories told by Ghanaian men who ventured over land or sea in search for a better future. They cross the Sahara desert to Libya where jobs are available if you accept the insults that go with them. Then on into shaky boats for Europe...

Stories by Ghanaian emigrants that you can feel in all their raw resiliance and beautiful sense of humor.

Deze rijk geïllustreerde vernieuwde uitgave van het met de Ithakaprijs

bekroonde boek Huygens’ Hofwijck (2015) beschrijft hoe de veelzijdige

dichter-musicus-diplomaat Constantijn Huygens er omstreeks 1640 in

slaagde zijn buitenplaats Hofwijck aan te leggen als een aards paradijsje naar

Gods beeld en gelijkenis. Ook is er aandacht voor de periode waarin

Christiaan Huygens op Hofwijck verbleef en er inspiratie opdeed voor zijn

wereldberoemde ontdekkingen, net als voor de contacten die Christ...

Frederick Douglass's Narrative recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and escape to freedom in 1838. An important slave autobiography, it is significant both for what it tells us about slave life and about its author. It is here reprinted with contexualizing source material and other writings by Douglass, as well as an introduction discussing its literary and historical significance.

From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular financial collapses

'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. "One hundred and fifty billion dollars," he finally said-though he added that he had use for "infinity dollars"...'

Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't just rich. Before he turned thirty he'...

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two people whose love and shared life experiences led them to find a courageous way to part—and of a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss.

“What a book this is—full of everything that matters . . . gripping, moving, and beautifully told.”—Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Oprah Daily, BookPage

Amy Bloom began to notic...

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.

“A sublime book.” —Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle

“Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigorous study of life and an experiment. These fragments of living, however evanescent, are precious, irreplaceable, like a skin that never fades.” —Caroline Montpetit in Le Devoir

The ...

Hilarious, heart-warming and honest, Broken is about living, surviving and thriving with anxiety. A must-have for fans of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and David Sedaris.

Profiles in Leadership: The Last Seven Presidents of the United States biedt een diepgaand overzicht van de laatste zeven presidenten van de VS, waarbij hun persoonlijke achtergronden, politieke uitdagingen en leiderschapsstijlen worden onderzocht. Van Ronald Reagan tot Joe Biden onthult elk hoofdstuk de unieke context waarin deze leiders opereerden en de beslissingen die hun tijd in functie hebben gekenmerkt.

Het boek onderzoekt hoe elk van deze presidenten omging met cruciale kwesties zoals...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD. 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris, from occupied Vienna to Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCE

Pre-order the latest memoir from global bestselling author Raynor Winn

Unflinching... There is a luminous conviction to the prose - Observer

Heartening and comforting... The nature writing is beautiful and it is a thrill to read. You feel the world is a better place because Raynor and Moth are in it - The Times

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . .

Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth's he...