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Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear fi

Examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are genera

Op een veel te warme septembermiddag in 2020 trekt de verteller van Open de deur van het huis van zijn geliefde achter zich dicht. Na zeven intense ja

In Eigen van elkaar zijn drie van zijn beste familieromans gebundeld: Bloed krijg je er nooit meer uit, Het geschenk en Het smartlappenkwartier. Bl

"Well-researched... a welcome guide." The Spectator "Reliable and lucid." History Today With a fractured geography and complex identity, The Phili

The Night Circus meets Lonely Castle in the Mirror in this multi-award-winning Japanese bestseller, available finally in an English translation by Phi

Little Pedro has an out-of-this-world adventure! The heroic Adventuremice have been summoned by an inventor-mouse! Millie's Uncle Bernie has built

Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, du

The monumental biography of the most influential leader on the world stage in the last twenty years. To explain is not to justify. Putin's regime is d

One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a re

The definitive portrait of Pol Pot, the enigmatic man behind the most terrifying regime of modern times

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionEveryman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism.

Wie zieht man Erdbeeren zu Hause heran? Kann man ein Vogelhäuschen ohne Holz und Säge bauen? Und wie funktioniert eigentlich ein Kompost? Little Gr

A novel full of mystery and delight, from bestselling, award-winning author Philip Reeve. As the entrancing, unfathomable power of the sea fills Utter

Philip Dröge neemt je mee naar een vergeten stukje geschiedenis van de Nederlandse taal Drie eeuwen lang spraken overal in de staten New York en New

Japanische Jazz-Kneipen und -Cafés sind insulare Welten, in denen die Zeit stillsteht, fernab von Hektik und Chaos moderner Stadtlandschaften. Tokyo J

Op de openbare basisschool in Blaricum wordt de verteller van Wat je van bloed weet voor het eerst verliefd. Langs het hockeyveld ontmoet hij Cato de

Seine Arbeit gilt zu Recht als außergewöhnlich. Mit einer weltumspannenden Karriere über sechs Jahrzehnte schöpft Norman Foster, einer der einflussrei

The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman

From the author of the million-copy selling Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation and the bestselling John Lennon: The Life comes a revealing portra