Oneworld publications sep 2025 (27 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A rich and beautifully told history of humanity.Sublime.' Joseph CoelhoWhat did 'the beginning' look like Let us travel back to the start,so far back that all of our rootsbegin to tell the same story.The history of WE.Fossil records show that the first humans were born in Africa. Meaning, every person on Earth can trace their heritage back to that continent. Through stunning paintings and prose by award-winning artivist Nikkolas Smith,The History of Weis a celebration of our shared ancestry and creative heritage.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '[A] compelling mystery thriller.'Guardianbest new teen booksAn explosive story about seeking justice for apast that won't let you go.Lucy Smith is on the run. Years in foster care have taught her to be smart, cautious. But when the kind-eyed Jamie Jameson and his 'friend-not-friend' Daunis track her down and show interest in her case, Lucy begins to wonder if things could be different.They tell her the truth about her father, and the family that has been hidden from her all this time. But Lucy is being followed. As the secrets mount and threaten to swallow her whole, Lucy must decide what she's willing to sacrifice to protect the people she loves.You can read Angeline Boulley's bestsellingFirekeeper's Daughter,Warrior Girl UnearthedandSisters of the Windin any order you like; but like the world itself, there are echoes within each for the other stories.Pick this up if you enjoy:- quiet girls with dark pasts- explosive opening scenes- wolves in sheep's clothing.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A memoir from the beloved author behind the multimillion-copy bestselling A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTSATIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR'Handler's memoir, although subtle, ironic and full of dry wit, still pulses with that same childlike enthusiasm for books. Read it and you might just catch the bug.'THE SUNDAY TIMESKnown to most as Lemony Snicket, the tormented narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events, Daniel Handler spends his days writing - for children and adults; film and television; and, occasionally, the accordion. Mainly, he writes about horrible things: orphans, abusive uncles, poison, murder, arson, bad grammar.A love letter to the consoling and terrifying power of books, And Then And Then What Else traces Handler's life through morbid poetry collections, eccentric acting troupes, hazy midnight taxi rides, second-hand bookstores and psychiatric units. Traversing his personal canon from his first encounter with Baudelaire to Vladimir Nabokov, Elizabeth Bishop and The Pet Shop Boys, Handler offers a witty, poignant exploration of reading, writing and why we tell stories.'Extraordinary. highly entertaining.'DAILY TELEGRAPH'This erudite, vulnerable, funny and idiosyncratic book ranks among his best. Grown-up fans of Lemony Snicket will enjoy discovering the rest of the story.' WALL STREET JOURNAL.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 1940. Britain has invaded neutral Iceland, but Daphne Devine has bigger problems. She has sailed into allied territory to track down a clairvoyant suspected of collaborating with the Nazis. As an undercover operative, Daphne must thread her way through a land steeped in shadow and riddled with secrets. But when a new lead pulls her North into Strandir, land of sorcerers, what she uncovers sets off a deadly chain reaction. The stakes are raised, and suddenly it's not just her life on the line, but the fate of her entire team. In a world of deceiving occultists and age-old magic, Daphne must use every ounce of cunning and craft at her disposal to outwit enemy agents if she wants to emerge unscathed and get her team out alive.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Pulitzer-winner Sebastian Smee relives the remarkable birth of Impressionism from the ashes of war'Enjoyable. a fine portrait not only of impressionism but the society that made it possible'THE SUNDAY TIMESParis, January 1871 - the final, agonising days of the Franco-Prussian War. As the German army cements its advantage, shells rattle through the Left Bank. It is a bitterly cold winter; there is no fuel, no medicine, no food. The city's poorer citizens have long turned to eating rats, cats and dogs. France has been brought to its knees.Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas are trapped in the besieged city. Renoir and Bazille have joined regiments outside of Paris, while Monet and Pissarro fled the country just in time. Out of the Siege and the Commune, these artists developed a newfound sense of the fragility of life. A feeling for transience - reflected in Impressionism's emphasis on fugitive light, shifting seasons, glimpsed street scenes, and the impermanence of all things - would change art history forever.This is the extraordinary account of the 'Terrible Year' in Paris and its monumental impact on the rise of Impressionism.\*\*\*'Vigorous and enjoyable'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Smee has a gimlet eye, a seductive style and a novelist's feel for character and incident'NEW YORK TIMES'Detailed, lively and at times richly novelistic'LITERARY REVIEW.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An Irish Sunday Independent Book of the Year Pick for 2025!Shortlisted for The New Adult Book Prize 2026!'Caragh Maxwell is a writer to watch.' Irish Examiner 'Unsparing and affectionate.' Anne Enright, author of The Wren, The Wren'Utterly compelling, authentic and raw.' Una Mannion, author of A Crooked TreeFor fans of Sally Rooney and Megan Nolan comes a remarkable new Irish debut about growing up and moving backwardsWhat do you do when you've ruined your life You go home to your mother, if you're lucky enough still to have one. Saoirse Maher wouldn't recommend it. Leaving home wasn't supposed to be temporary. When she moved to London, Saoirse was leaving Ireland behind for good, and with it her messy, broken family. But it turns out that starting again isn't as easy as she imagined, and when her five-year relationship goes south, Saoirse finds herself out of options. And so here she is, trudging back to her mother Máire's house up a side road on the outskirts of Irish civilisation. Except the world she comes back to is nothing like the one she left behind. Her mother has a new family, and everyone else seems to be moving on. But between the drinking, drugs, and an entirely healthy, not-problematic-at-all-thanks relationship with Charlie, there's plenty to distract her.Don't look too closely, and everything's fine. Saoirse is just fine. 'This is such an absorbing read; shocking and brutal at times, but incredibly tender at others. Fans of Megan Nolan or Niamh Mulvey will love it.' NIAMH HARGAN.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The true story of the thrill-seekers, map-makers, soldiers, occultists, artists and porters who paved the way for modern mountaineering.WINNER OF THE 2025 NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD FOR HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY'A beautifully written and sure-footed history of mountaineering 'before Everest', full of wonderful stories and spanning continents and centuries. A splendid debut.' Sir Ranulph Fiennes, author ofShackletonBeautiful, remote and dangerous - for generations we have looked to the mountains in awe. Yet, for most, that is where the fascination ends. For a rare few, however, the allure of the peaks proved irresistible.There are the devout Incan priests who, scaling the Andes' icy slopes to pay tribute to each mountain's 'Great Lord', travelled higher than any European would for centuries. The Gurkha riflemen who joined their commanders in canvassing the Karakoram, admiring the distant summits of Broad Peak and K2 with gleeful anticipation. The tweed-clad mountaineers who made the first serious assaults on Everest, hauling yards upon yards of battered rope through the cold.Tracing the world altitude record from the ashy slopes of the sacred volcano Llullaillaco to the icy crags and crevasses of the Karakoram, Daniel Light takes a panoramic journey through the storied history of mountaineering before Everest. Joining a cast of colourful characters,The White Ladder offers an ode to mountains' capacity to enthral, and the fundamental human drive to climb higher and higher.\*\*\*'Thrilling.Daniel Light deliversstories that are poetic, spiritual and astonishing in their courage and drive.' Sonia Purnell, author ofA Woman of No Importance'Daniel Light guides the reader through a mountain-scape that stretches from the Alps to the Himalaya. with the sure footing of a serious student of climbing history, and the élan of a skilled storyteller. This is a book to curl up with on a cold dark night in a comfortable armchair before a bright fire.' Maurice Isserman, co-author of Fallen Giants'Wonderful. a massive story with an enormous cast of characters, among them some of the most compelling figures of mountaineering history.' Wade Davis, author of Into the Silence.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book A Sunday Times, Irish Times, Financial Times, Independent,Daily Mail,TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024The perfect Christmas gift for booklovers'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMANThe stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond our childhoods, they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties. They reveal our past - collective and individual, remembered and imagined - and invite us to dream up different futures.In a pioneering history of the children's literary canon, The Haunted Wood reveals the magic of childhood reading, from the ancient tales of Aesop, through the Victorian and Edwardian golden age to new classics. Excavating the complex lives of our most beloved writers, Sam Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre and celebrates the power of books to inspire and console entire generations.\*\*\*'A DELIGHT'JULIA DONALDSON'A JOY' MICHAEL ROSEN'GLORIOUSLY ENTERTAINING'TOM HOLLAND. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Israel can't go on like this. 7 October and Israel's subsequent invasion of Gaza laid bare the cracks in its foundations. It was unveiled as a country unable to protect its citizens, divided between messianic theocrats and selective liberals, resented by its neighbours and losing the support of Jews worldwide. While its leaders justify bombing campaigns exceeding the worst atrocities of World War 2 and a spiralling humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, Israel is becoming a pariah state. Its worst enemy is not Hamas, but itself.Ilan Pappe paves a path out of the Jewish state, rooted in restorative justice and decolonisation, including the return of refugees, the end of illegal settlements, and building bridges with the Arab world. The future can be one of reconciliation, not endless war.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What does it mean - and how does it feel - to grow up as a Black artist today 'This exceptional book, written with a mother's love for her seven creative children, sensitively offers profound and original insights and perspectives that enrich our culture. I feel so much wiser for reading it.' Bernardine EvaristoWhen Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's eldest daughter, Isata, made her solo debut at the BBC Proms in 2023, she could not have been prouder. Watching years of hard work transform into a transcendent performance was profoundly moving, both as music-lover and parent.All fractured when her younger daughter turned to her in tears a few days later, having read online abuse about her sister. Isata, it was declared, did not deserve to be there. How do you prepare your child for the fact that no matter their talent, technique or dedication, they will be told they do not belong Through conversations with her extraordinarily gifted family, Kanneh-Mason explores what it's like to come of age in these turbulent times, when Black artistic self-expression is so often met with disparagement and abuse online - and offers a hopeful, powerful way through.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of the Orwell Prize-winner SHOW ME THE BODIES: HOW WE LET GRENFELL HAPPEN, the gripping story of how housing defines a city's past, presentand futureA Waterstones Book of the Year 2025'Apps set the gold standard with his Grenfell coverage. With Homesick, he dismantles the sham of UK housing policy - razor-sharp, stylish, and morally unflinching.' Darren McGarveyIn London, only those with vast cash deposits can get on the property ladder, private rents have spiralled out of control and the wait for social housing is measured in decades. Once vibrant communities are being uprooted, schools are closing down and homelessness is rampant.It was not always like this. In the 1980s, builders and nurses could afford family-sized homes, there was abundant social housing and long-term security for private renters.Tracing the last forty years of housing policy, Peter Apps examines this transformation, following a diverse group of Londoners as their fortunes rise and fall across the decades amid the economic forces sweeping through the city. With clear-eyed urgency, he reveals what will happen when a generation of renters retires and climate change brings fire and flood to a city unprepared for extremes.He also gives us reason to hope, exploring the ways London can transform again: from a market for private profit to a place that once more offers permanence, safety and opportunity for its citizens. A place to call home. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Meet the heiresses. Their dresses are the latest fashion, their rooms Mayfair's most luxurious, their suitors Britain's most powerful men.Their fortunes - blood and sugar.'This is a book you need to read.' Lucy WorsleyGeorgian heiresses are inescapable in British culture. They flutter through Jane Austen's novels and countless period dramas. Their portraits - painted by Gainsborough, Zoffany, Reynolds - crowd our museums while their lavish estates pepper the countryside. However, a less genteel story lurks beneath the veneer - those glorious balls, dresses and dowries were funded by the exploitation of enslaved men, women and children.Following the lives of nine heiresses and tracing their tainted money from its origins in the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Miranda Kaufmann reveals a murky world of inheritance, fortune-hunting and human exploitation. From Jane Leigh Perrot, Jane Austen's light-fingered aunt, to Elizabeth Vassall Fox, who faked her daughter's death to maintain custody during a tumultuous divorce, Heiressestraces the often scandalous lives of the women who helped build Britain's empire.Kaufmann also pieces together the lives of the people these heiresses and their families enslaved. There's Betsy Newton, who escaped from Barbados to London to confront her enslavers face-to-face. Meanwhile in Jamaica, Susanna Augier became a powerful landowner, inheriting her white father's properties. Her daughter, an eligible heiress, would marry into the British aristocracy.Enlightening, provocative and masterfully researched, Heiresses offers a vital history of enslavement in Britain and the Caribbean.\*\*\*'A startling insightinto the lives of the real 'Mrs Rochesters'. The role of women in plantation slavery, as perpetrators and victims is uncovered bya historian at the height of her powers.' Anita Anand, author ofThe Patient Assassinandco-host ofEmpire'A perfect balance of critical humour and searing historical insight. A must-read.' Paterson Joseph, actor and author ofThe Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho'Vivid, shocking and compulsively readable.MirandaKaufmann is not just a fine investigative historian - she is a superb story-teller.' Alex Renton, author ofBlood Legacy.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book A Sunday Times, Irish Times, Financial Times, Independent,Daily Mail,TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024The perfect Christmas gift for booklovers'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMANThe stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond our childhoods, they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties. They reveal our past - collective and individual, remembered and imagined - and invite us to dream up different futures.In a pioneering history of the children's literary canon, The Haunted Wood reveals the magic of childhood reading, from the ancient tales of Aesop, through the Victorian and Edwardian golden age to new classics. Excavating the complex lives of our most beloved writers, Sam Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre and celebrates the power of books to inspire and console entire generations.\*\*\*'A DELIGHT'JULIA DONALDSON'A JOY' MICHAEL ROSEN'GLORIOUSLY ENTERTAINING'TOM HOLLANDPetersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 578 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -An Irish Sunday Independent Book of the Year Pick for 2025!Shortlisted for The New Adult Book Prize 2026!'Caragh Maxwell is a writer to watch.' Irish Examiner 'Unsparing and affectionate.' Anne Enright, author of The Wren, The Wren'Utterly compelling, authentic and raw.' Una Mannion, author of A Crooked TreeFor fans of Sally Rooney and Megan Nolan comes a remarkable new Irish debut about growing up and moving backwardsWhat do you do when you've ruined your life You go home to your mother, if you're lucky enough still to have one. Saoirse Maher wouldn't recommend it. Leaving home wasn't supposed to be temporary. When she moved to London, Saoirse was leaving Ireland behind for good, and with it her messy, broken family. But it turns out that starting again isn't as easy as she imagined, and when her five-year relationship goes south, Saoirse finds herself out of options. And so here she is, trudging back to her mother Máire's house up a side road on the outskirts of Irish civilisation. Except the world she comes back to is nothing like the one she left behind. Her mother has a new family, and everyone else seems to be moving on. But between the drinking, drugs, and an entirely healthy, not-problematic-at-all-thanks relationship with Charlie, there's plenty to distract her.Don't look too closely, and everything's fine. Saoirse is just fine. 'This is such an absorbing read; shocking and brutal at times, but incredibly tender at others. Fans of Megan Nolan or Niamh Mulvey will love it.' NIAMH HARGAN Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 240 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The true story of the thrill-seekers, map-makers, soldiers, occultists, artists and porters who paved the way for modern mountaineering.WINNER OF THE 2025 NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD FOR HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY'A beautifully written and sure-footed history of mountaineering 'before Everest', full of wonderful stories and spanning continents and centuries. A splendid debut.' Sir Ranulph Fiennes, author ofShackletonBeautiful, remote and dangerous - for generations we have looked to the mountains in awe. Yet, for most, that is where the fascination ends. For a rare few, however, the allure of the peaks proved irresistible.There are the devout Incan priests who, scaling the Andes' icy slopes to pay tribute to each mountain's 'Great Lord', travelled higher than any European would for centuries. The Gurkha riflemen who joined their commanders in canvassing the Karakoram, admiring the distant summits of Broad Peak and K2 with gleeful anticipation. The tweed-clad mountaineers who made the first serious assaults on Everest, hauling yards upon yards of battered rope through the cold.Tracing the world altitude record from the ashy slopes of the sacred volcano Llullaillaco to the icy crags and crevasses of the Karakoram, Daniel Light takes a panoramic journey through the storied history of mountaineering before Everest. Joining a cast of colourful characters,The White Ladder offers an ode to mountains' capacity to enthral, and the fundamental human drive to climb higher and higher.\*\*\*'Thrilling.Daniel Light deliversstories that are poetic, spiritual and astonishing in their courage and drive.' Sonia Purnell, author ofA Woman of No Importance'Daniel Light guides the reader through a mountain-scape that stretches from the Alps to the Himalaya. with the sure footing of a serious student of climbing history, and the élan of a skilled storyteller. This is a book to curl up with on a cold dark night in a comfortable armchair before a bright fire.' Maurice Isserman, co-author of Fallen Giants'Wonderful. a massive story with an enormous cast of characters, among them some of the most compelling figures of mountaineering history.' Wade Davis, author of Into the SilencePetersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 412 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Pulitzer-winner Sebastian Smee relives the remarkable birth of Impressionism from the ashes of war'Enjoyable. a fine portrait not only of impressionism but the society that made it possible'THE SUNDAY TIMESParis, January 1871 - the final, agonising days of the Franco-Prussian War. As the German army cements its advantage, shells rattle through the Left Bank. It is a bitterly cold winter; there is no fuel, no medicine, no food. The city's poorer citizens have long turned to eating rats, cats and dogs. France has been brought to its knees.Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas are trapped in the besieged city. Renoir and Bazille have joined regiments outside of Paris, while Monet and Pissarro fled the country just in time. Out of the Siege and the Commune, these artists developed a newfound sense of the fragility of life. A feeling for transience - reflected in Impressionism's emphasis on fugitive light, shifting seasons, glimpsed street scenes, and the impermanence of all things - would change art history forever.This is the extraordinary account of the 'Terrible Year' in Paris and its monumental impact on the rise of Impressionism.\*\*\*'Vigorous and enjoyable'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Smee has a gimlet eye, a seductive style and a novelist's feel for character and incident'NEW YORK TIMES'Detailed, lively and at times richly novelistic'LITERARY REVIEWPetersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 384 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -What does it mean - and how does it feel - to grow up as a Black artist today 'This exceptional book, written with a mother's love for her seven creative children, sensitively offers profound and original insights and perspectives that enrich our culture. I feel so much wiser for reading it.' Bernardine EvaristoWhen Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's eldest daughter, Isata, made her solo debut at the BBC Proms in 2023, she could not have been prouder. Watching years of hard work transform into a transcendent performance was profoundly moving, both as music-lover and parent.All fractured when her younger daughter turned to her in tears a few days later, having read online abuse about her sister. Isata, it was declared, did not deserve to be there. How do you prepare your child for the fact that no matter their talent, technique or dedication, they will be told they do not belong Through conversations with her extraordinarily gifted family, Kanneh-Mason explores what it's like to come of age in these turbulent times, when Black artistic self-expression is so often met with disparagement and abuse online - and offers a hopeful, powerful way through.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 240 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Israel can't go on like this. 7 October and Israel's subsequent invasion of Gaza laid bare the cracks in its foundations. It was unveiled as a country unable to protect its citizens, divided between messianic theocrats and selective liberals, resented by its neighbours and losing the support of Jews worldwide. While its leaders justify bombing campaigns exceeding the worst atrocities of World War 2 and a spiralling humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, Israel is becoming a pariah state. Its worst enemy is not Hamas, but itself.Ilan Pappe paves a path out of the Jewish state, rooted in restorative justice and decolonisation, including the return of refugees, the end of illegal settlements, and building bridges with the Arab world. The future can be one of reconciliation, not endless war.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -From the author of the Orwell Prize-winner SHOW ME THE BODIES: HOW WE LET GRENFELL HAPPEN, the gripping story of how housing defines a city's past, presentand futureA Waterstones Book of the Year 2025'Apps set the gold standard with his Grenfell coverage. With Homesick, he dismantles the sham of UK housing policy - razor-sharp, stylish, and morally unflinching.' Darren McGarveyIn London, only those with vast cash deposits can get on the property ladder, private rents have spiralled out of control and the wait for social housing is measured in decades. Once vibrant communities are being uprooted, schools are closing down and homelessness is rampant.It was not always like this. In the 1980s, builders and nurses could afford family-sized homes, there was abundant social housing and long-term security for private renters.Tracing the last forty years of housing policy, Peter Apps examines this transformation, following a diverse group of Londoners as their fortunes rise and fall across the decades amid the economic forces sweeping through the city. With clear-eyed urgency, he reveals what will happen when a generation of renters retires and climate change brings fire and flood to a city unprepared for extremes.He also gives us reason to hope, exploring the ways London can transform again: from a market for private profit to a place that once more offers permanence, safety and opportunity for its citizens. A place to call home.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 352 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -An Irish Sunday Independent Book of the Year Pick for 2025!Shortlisted for The New Adult Book Prize 2026!'Caragh Maxwell is a writer to watch.' Irish Examiner 'Unsparing and affectionate.' Anne Enright, author of The Wren, The Wren'Utterly compelling, authentic and raw.' Una Mannion, author of A Crooked TreeFor fans of Sally Rooney and Megan Nolan comes a remarkable new Irish debut about growing up and moving backwardsWhat do you do when you've ruined your life You go home to your mother, if you're lucky enough still to have one. Saoirse Maher wouldn't recommend it. Leaving home wasn't supposed to be temporary. When she moved to London, Saoirse was leaving Ireland behind for good, and with it her messy, broken family. But it turns out that starting again isn't as easy as she imagined, and when her five-year relationship goes south, Saoirse finds herself out of options. And so here she is, trudging back to her mother Máire's house up a side road on the outskirts of Irish civilisation. Except the world she comes back to is nothing like the one she left behind. Her mother has a new family, and everyone else seems to be moving on. But between the drinking, drugs, and an entirely healthy, not-problematic-at-all-thanks relationship with Charlie, there's plenty to distract her.Don't look too closely, and everything's fine. Saoirse is just fine. 'This is such an absorbing read; shocking and brutal at times, but incredibly tender at others. Fans of Megan Nolan or Niamh Mulvey will love it.' NIAMH HARGAN 240 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The true story of the thrill-seekers, map-makers, soldiers, occultists, artists and porters who paved the way for modern mountaineering.WINNER OF THE 2025 NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD FOR HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY'A beautifully written and sure-footed history of mountaineering 'before Everest', full of wonderful stories and spanning continents and centuries. A splendid debut.' Sir Ranulph Fiennes, author ofShackletonBeautiful, remote and dangerous - for generations we have looked to the mountains in awe. Yet, for most, that is where the fascination ends. For a rare few, however, the allure of the peaks proved irresistible.There are the devout Incan priests who, scaling the Andes' icy slopes to pay tribute to each mountain's 'Great Lord', travelled higher than any European would for centuries. The Gurkha riflemen who joined their commanders in canvassing the Karakoram, admiring the distant summits of Broad Peak and K2 with gleeful anticipation. The tweed-clad mountaineers who made the first serious assaults on Everest, hauling yards upon yards of battered rope through the cold.Tracing the world altitude record from the ashy slopes of the sacred volcano Llullaillaco to the icy crags and crevasses of the Karakoram, Daniel Light takes a panoramic journey through the storied history of mountaineering before Everest. Joining a cast of colourful characters,The White Ladder offers an ode to mountains' capacity to enthral, and the fundamental human drive to climb higher and higher.\*\*\*'Thrilling.Daniel Light deliversstories that are poetic, spiritual and astonishing in their courage and drive.' Sonia Purnell, author ofA Woman of No Importance'Daniel Light guides the reader through a mountain-scape that stretches from the Alps to the Himalaya. with the sure footing of a serious student of climbing history, and the élan of a skilled storyteller. This is a book to curl up with on a cold dark night in a comfortable armchair before a bright fire.' Maurice Isserman, co-author of Fallen Giants'Wonderful. a massive story with an enormous cast of characters, among them some of the most compelling figures of mountaineering history.' Wade Davis, author of Into the Silence 412 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Pulitzer-winner Sebastian Smee relives the remarkable birth of Impressionism from the ashes of war'Enjoyable. a fine portrait not only of impressionism but the society that made it possible'THE SUNDAY TIMESParis, January 1871 - the final, agonising days of the Franco-Prussian War. As the German army cements its advantage, shells rattle through the Left Bank. It is a bitterly cold winter; there is no fuel, no medicine, no food. The city's poorer citizens have long turned to eating rats, cats and dogs. France has been brought to its knees.Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas are trapped in the besieged city. Renoir and Bazille have joined regiments outside of Paris, while Monet and Pissarro fled the country just in time. Out of the Siege and the Commune, these artists developed a newfound sense of the fragility of life. A feeling for transience - reflected in Impressionism's emphasis on fugitive light, shifting seasons, glimpsed street scenes, and the impermanence of all things - would change art history forever.This is the extraordinary account of the 'Terrible Year' in Paris and its monumental impact on the rise of Impressionism.\*\*\*'Vigorous and enjoyable'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Smee has a gimlet eye, a seductive style and a novelist's feel for character and incident'NEW YORK TIMES'Detailed, lively and at times richly novelistic'LITERARY REVIEW 384 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book A Sunday Times, Irish Times, Financial Times, Independent,Daily Mail,TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024The perfect Christmas gift for booklovers'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMANThe stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond our childhoods, they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties. They reveal our past - collective and individual, remembered and imagined - and invite us to dream up different futures.In a pioneering history of the children's literary canon, The Haunted Wood reveals the magic of childhood reading, from the ancient tales of Aesop, through the Victorian and Edwardian golden age to new classics. Excavating the complex lives of our most beloved writers, Sam Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre and celebrates the power of books to inspire and console entire generations.\*\*\*'A DELIGHT'JULIA DONALDSON'A JOY' MICHAEL ROSEN'GLORIOUSLY ENTERTAINING'TOM HOLLAND 578 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -What does it mean - and how does it feel - to grow up as a Black artist today 'This exceptional book, written with a mother's love for her seven creative children, sensitively offers profound and original insights and perspectives that enrich our culture. I feel so much wiser for reading it.' Bernardine EvaristoWhen Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's eldest daughter, Isata, made her solo debut at the BBC Proms in 2023, she could not have been prouder. Watching years of hard work transform into a transcendent performance was profoundly moving, both as music-lover and parent.All fractured when her younger daughter turned to her in tears a few days later, having read online abuse about her sister. Isata, it was declared, did not deserve to be there. How do you prepare your child for the fact that no matter their talent, technique or dedication, they will be told they do not belong Through conversations with her extraordinarily gifted family, Kanneh-Mason explores what it's like to come of age in these turbulent times, when Black artistic self-expression is so often met with disparagement and abuse online - and offers a hopeful, powerful way through. 240 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -From the author of the Orwell Prize-winner SHOW ME THE BODIES: HOW WE LET GRENFELL HAPPEN, the gripping story of how housing defines a city's past, presentand futureA Waterstones Book of the Year 2025'Apps set the gold standard with his Grenfell coverage. With Homesick, he dismantles the sham of UK housing policy - razor-sharp, stylish, and morally unflinching.' Darren McGarveyIn London, only those with vast cash deposits can get on the property ladder, private rents have spiralled out of control and the wait for social housing is measured in decades. Once vibrant communities are being uprooted, schools are closing down and homelessness is rampant.It was not always like this. In the 1980s, builders and nurses could afford family-sized homes, there was abundant social housing and long-term security for private renters.Tracing the last forty years of housing policy, Peter Apps examines this transformation, following a diverse group of Londoners as their fortunes rise and fall across the decades amid the economic forces sweeping through the city. With clear-eyed urgency, he reveals what will happen when a generation of renters retires and climate change brings fire and flood to a city unprepared for extremes.He also gives us reason to hope, exploring the ways London can transform again: from a market for private profit to a place that once more offers permanence, safety and opportunity for its citizens. A place to call home. 352 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Israel can't go on like this. 7 October and Israel's subsequent invasion of Gaza laid bare the cracks in its foundations. It was unveiled as a country unable to protect its citizens, divided between messianic theocrats and selective liberals, resented by its neighbours and losing the support of Jews worldwide. While its leaders justify bombing campaigns exceeding the worst atrocities of World War 2 and a spiralling humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, Israel is becoming a pariah state. Its worst enemy is not Hamas, but itself.Ilan Pappe paves a path out of the Jewish state, rooted in restorative justice and decolonisation, including the return of refugees, the end of illegal settlements, and building bridges with the Arab world. The future can be one of reconciliation, not endless war. Englisch.…