Elizabeth Wilson

Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries: family me

In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published in 1

‘De momenten dat ik het hardst heb gefaald in mijn leven, waren de grootste lessen.’ Milou Deelen 'onmisbare gids voor elke jongere!' - Matthew Sye

It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales, the world looks ready to end just as she is trying to imagin

Features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. This title shows how, forced to move from t

A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'No one interested in the history of Europe can afford not to read this stupendous book' Simon Heffer, Daily Te

Een fascinerend nieuw perspectief op de relatie tussen natuur en stad Tegenwoordig zijn steden de snelst groeiende soort op aarde en een schijnbare r

Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitor

Shortlisted For the Booker Prize 2022 The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author retu

In onze maatschappij zien we romantische liefde als het hoogst haalbare. Maar zijn vriendschappen niet minstens zo belangrijk, of zelfs belangrijker?

In 1945, Indonesia's declaration of independence promised: 'the details of the transfer of power etc. will be worked out as soon as possible.' Still w

A Book of the Year in the New Yorker, Time, NPR, Washington Post, People Magazine and Oprah DailyA taut, groundbreaking new novel about a writer's rel

From the New York Times bestselling author of Six Crimson Cranes comes a tale of two sisters - one as beautiful as the other is monstrous - who must f

After 150 Bars, Restaurants, Hotels, Houses, Gardens, Golf Courses and Vineyards, now also 150 Bookstores you need to visit before you die. These book

‘Het verhaal van William’ van Elizabeth Strout gaat over Lucy Barton: wonend in New York, succesvol schrijfster en de moeder van twee volwassen dochte

‘An arresting, deeply reported new book’ Washington Post‘This gripping, inflaming book, itself an act of fury, shows how revenge can transmute into po

Elizabeth Wilson's elegant, provocative, and scholarly study uses fiction, essays, film, and art, as well as history and sociology, to look at some of

London in the aftermath of WW2 is a beaten down, hungry place, so it's no wonder that Regine Milner's Sunday house parties in her Hampstead home are s

Women and the Welfare State approaches the question of welfare policy from an entirely fresh perspective. In it the author argues that an appreciation