From the prize-winning author ofTo Be a Machine -meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world Veteran worrier and father-of-two, Mark O'Connell, meets the anarchists, environmentalists, far-right nut-jobs and super-rich preparing for the end of days.
Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.
Scheisse! recounts the extraordinary story of Union Berlin, the German Bundesliga's most spirited football club, interwoven with a witty history of contemporary Berlin.
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation-a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist The New York Times calls 'one of his generation's most original writers'.
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.
Mary Zaia's Mamba Forever collects wise words from one of the greatest basketball players in history, Kobe Bryant. A tribute to a cultural icon of our times.
A man is searching for a young woman he calls The Fruit Thief, who, like him, has set off on a journey to the Vexin plateau. What follows is a dreamlike exploration of topography both physical and affective, charting the Fruit Thiefs journey across France's internal borderlands. Chance encounters expose new facets of this mysterious individual in the manner of a cubist portrait.
Home Front, from bestselling author Kristin Hannah, is a heart-wrenching portrayal of a mother and wife returning from war to face family life that's forever changed.