Language and Litterature

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the t

This is the definitive account of how Enzo Ferrari became the master of motor racing, and one of the most complex, important and imposing figures in the 20th century.

324 pages of never before seen Roxy Music photographs from one of the most high-profile Roxy Music fans celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band's debut album. A perfect gift for fans of 80s bands, Roxy Music and music photography. 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music´s eponymous debut album, which the band are celebrating with a North America and UK tour, their first in over a decad

An irresistible advent calendar for booklovers based on Jane Mount's beloved Bibliophile books and artwork.

- DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE KIDS WHO FOUND A FERRARI BURIED IN THEIR GARDEN? - WHAT ABOUT THE MAN WHO SUED SATAN? - DO YOU KNOW THE LEGEND OF THE BUNNY MAN? Strange happenings, unsolved mysteries and seemingly supernatural events have gripped and shocked us for centuries, passed from person to person in whispers in classrooms, tales around the campfire and idle gossip among friends. Whether they

Follow the stories of incredible women in modern history, including Greta Thunberg, Emma 'X' Gonzalez and Malala Yousafzai among others.

Beautifully illustrated by a diverse, international creative team, fans of extraordinary real-life stories will love this!

A selection of the best known poems by the Nobel nominated, Herder Prize-winning poet.

A bilingual collection of poetry from pioneering scholar in Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, Gershom Scholem. With this volume, Scholem's work reaches beyond the confines of the academy and enters a literary dialogue with writers and philosophers like Walter Benjamin and Hans Jonas. Gershom Scholem's Greetings From Angelus contains dark, lucid political poems about Zionism and assimila

Winner of the 2011 PEN Translation Prize A collection of autobiographical essays by one of the greatest poets to come from Palestine. Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the roots and ramifications of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. Muhawi's own prose and meticulous footnotes are impeccable. An inspired and scholarly piece of research. —Words Without Borders

"Vulture in a cage," Solomon Ibn Gabirol's own self-description, is an apt image for a poet who was obsessed with the impediments posed by the body and the material world to the realization of his spiritual ambition of elevating his soul to the empyrean. Ibn Gabirol's poetry is enormously influential, laying the groundwork for generations of Hebrew poets who follow him--rocky and harsh, full of or

One of the central writers and thinkers in contemporary Maghreb letters and banned by the Moroccan government, Abdellatif Laabi's poetry is increasingly influential on the international scene and spans six decades of political and literary change, innovation, and struggle. Including a wide range of work, from piercing domestic love poetry to a fierce lyricism of social resistance informed by nearl

Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname “the Great Explainer.” I. Asimov is his personal story—vivid, open, and honest—as only Asimov himself could tell it.

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe. What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-d

A three-deck playing card set based on Jane Austen´s classics and designed to look like mini books, with beloved characters for the face cards Introducing Literary Suits: Jane Austen, a mini library of playing card decks, including themed decks for Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma, for Austenites who love card games as much as Mr. Hurst. With Lizzie and Darcy as the Queen and

God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post–World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbors, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairy tales.

The iconic fashion designer offers unprecedented access into her career and personal history with this once-in-a-lifetime publishing event. The complete, official retrospective, designed by Irma Boom—one of the world's leading book designers—in close collaboration with Jil Sander herself, is packed with special features, that will make it a highly coveted collectors' item. For decade

The ambitious and experimental debut by Jamie Hood, author of Trauma Plot, interrogating the “good girl” archetype and the price one pays to embody it In the thick of winter 2020, when so many books were buried beneath the catastrophe of the COVID-19 news cycle, one unlikely debut seemed to cut through the noise. Jamie Hood´s How to Be a Good Girl was an inventive and hybrid work of self-making,

Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total conviction that change cannot be resisted-and will come. In vivid, page-turning detail, including never-before-seen correspondenc

“Beautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life.” – Anne Lamott From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother´s encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhood Molly Jong-Fast is the only child of a famous woman, writer Erica Jong, whose sensational book Fear of Flying launched her into s

A New York Times Notable Book  A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics   “Max Chafkin´s The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, the most important investor in tech and a key supporter o