THE MOST JOYFUL NOVEL OF THE YEAR – AN INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING FUR-NOMENONPerfect for fans of Matt Haig, Fredrik Backman and Toshikazu Kawaguchi**---Meet Frankie the cat.** He’s a stray who belongs to no one, and that’s just how he likes it.Until one day, everything changes. He crosses paths with Richard.Richard isn’t doing so well. Grieving the loss of his partner, he’s turned his back on hope a...

Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of aesthetic and thematic aspects explored in these films, including gender and race. As diverse contributors focus on the individual subgenres of the traditional Western (the gunfighter, the Cavalry vs. Native American conflict, the role of women in Westerns, etc.), they share an understanding of the twenty-first century Western may be u...

One Night in Paris. A Summer on the Coast. A Connection That Changes EverythingA sweeping, sensual story of love, desire, and reinvention from the multi-million bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop - available now to pre-order in paperback!‘A powerful portrait of two women choosing to act on unexpected desires’ Booklist‘Captivating. This exploration of unfinished...

Contemporary capitalism produces more and more money, debt, and inequality. These three trends have a common cause: the privilege of private banks to create money by means of accounting - by the stroke of a key. Why was this privilege not addressed politically for so long - and who benefited from it? At the heart of the answer lies the realization that the power to create money has been hidden by the way we commonly think and talk about capitalism. The book traces the omission of money cre...

Humans are the most intelligent beings this planet has ever produced. But how is it that we can travel into space, cure diseases and decode the fundamentals of life, and at the same time find ourselves faced with an existential crisis that threatens to overwhelm us? What lies behind this uncharacteristic failure to master the most important challenge of our existence?In this compelling book, the leading archaeogeneticist Johannes Krause and the journalist Thomas Trappe investigate ...

Historians have mainly seen the ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe as spaces marked by brutality, tyranny, and the systematic murder of the Jewish population. Drawing on examples from the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos, Dance on the Razor’s Edge explores how, in fact, highly improvised legal spheres emerged in these coerced and heterogeneous ghetto communities.Looking at sources from multiple archives and countries, Svenja Bethke investigat...

This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life.Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an overlooked feature of the story of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Investigating Samuel Clemens’s often conflicting but insightful views on the roles of money in American culture and identity, this collection of essays shows how his fascination with ...

Brought to you by Penguin.PERFECT FOR FANS OF MATT HAIG, FREDRIK BACKMAN & TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHIMeet Frankie the cat. He’s a stray who belongs to no one, and that’s just how he likes it.Until one day, everything changes. He crosses paths with Richard.Richard isn’t doing so well. Grieving the loss of his partner, he’s turned his back on hope and is ready to end it all. But his plans are halted when Frankie the ...

Conspiracy theories seem to be proliferating today. Long relegated to a niche existence, conspiracy theories are now pervasive, and older conspiracy theories have been joined by a constant stream of new ones – that the USA carried out the 9/11 attacks itself, that the Ukrainian crisis was orchestrated by NATO, that we are being secretly controlled by a New World Order that keep us docile via chemtrails and vaccinations. Not to mention the moon landing that never happened.But what a...

Humans are the most intelligent beings this planet has ever produced. But how is it that we find ourselves faced with an existential crisis that threatens to overwhelm us?Leading archaeogeneticist Johannes Krause and journalist Thomas Trappe investigate what DNA can tell us about how we got where we are and what our future might be. They show how the first humans were defeated again and again and suffered fatal setbacks, and how Homo sapiens succeeded in conquering continents, over...

Our culture has no concept of stopping. We continue to build motorways and airports for a future in which cars and planes may no longer exist. We’re converting our planet from a natural one to an artificial one in which the quantity of man-made objects – houses, asphalt, cars, plastic, computers and so on – now exceeds the totality of living matter. And while biomass continues to decline due to deforestation and species extinction, the mass of man-made objects is growing faster than ever. ...

Brought to you by Penguin.She knew he was asking whether they would do it again. Share a secret hour behind closed doors. Whether this would start to mean something, or end here and now, in Room 32 of the Hotel Langlois, Paris.From the outside, respected behavioural biologist Claire is happily married, with a perfect son. But behind closed doors she yearns for more, throwing herself from one affair to another.Young Julie is trying to piece h...