A rediscovered classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni

'A timely reminder of man's inhumanity to man'

JUNG CHANG, author of Wild Swans

'Immensely powerful and deeply humane'

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, author of My Struggle

'It should be required reading'

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, author Everything Is Illuminated

When József Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would ...

Constantijn Huygens was a poet, composer and connoisseur of art and the classics. He was also secretary and confidant to three princes of Orange for 62 years. Hofwijck was also the place where Constantijn’s son Christiaan spent a significant part of his life. Christiaan Huygens was a member of the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge and became one of the greatest inventors and scientists.

At the end of his life, at Hofwijck, he wrote Cosmotheoros, his magnum op...

A sparkling biography of the legendary Fulvia of Ancient Rome, described by Cicero as 'a thoroughly rapacious woman'.

As a human being, I feel obligated to my fellow human beings to speak up and condemn religious falsehoods because I believe that my indifference to the suffering of others makes me just as guilty as those responsible for the suffering of others, and therefore, the best I can do is to condemn and shame those who take pleasure in abusing those who use religions as a predicate.

An intimate and original memoir of grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents. 'With a dazzling and inventive use of language .

Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her ...

In this spellbinding account of three World War Two collaborators, prize-winning historian Ian Buruma examines questions of truth as he investigates their complex and tangled lives.

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...

Report on the period of 1938 - 1946 of a young women who married in India and lived with her husband in the Dutch East Indies. After the capitulation she became interned in Japanese prisoncamps on Sumatra. Her husband worked on the Burma-Siam railway and died there. Her uncle fought in Bandoeng (Java) and was captured and also worked on the Burma-Siam railway and was transported to Japan in the hull of one of the Hell ships. He died in the bay of Manilla. Both have been awarded the War Mobil...

The correspondence of two men for a decade, when youngsters met each other in the sixties, remained friends up to the age of founding families and now at old age, create an image of them in getting-older-times.

Here are letters for one decade from 2012 to somewhere 2021. It starts with their meeting in 1969, recorded by memory and diary, and then jumps to a continuation of email-stream as presented here, which starts in 2012. It was a time of books, music, politic instabilities, loves, famil...