In 2013 bezoekt Thomas Harding het huis van zijn Duitse grootmoeder, gelegen aan de rand van Berlijn, bij de Groβ Glienicker See, die grenst aan de Wannsee. Deze plek, haar 'zielenplek', die zij heeft moeten verlaten toen de nazi's aan de macht kwamen, ligt er vervallen en verlaten bij. Een betonnen voetpad door de tuin markeert waar de Berlijnse Muur bijna drie decennia heeft gestaan. In een poging het huis van de sloophamer te redden, onderzoekt Harding de geschiedenis van de vijf famili...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf - a gripping true story of unsolved murder, war, and injustice in Nazi-occupied Florence.'Thomas Harding is a researcher of the first rank' Daily Express__Italy, Summer 1944A unit of German soldiers arrives at a villa near Florence. Villa Il Focardo is home to Robert Einstein, cousin to the most famous scientist in the world, Albert Einstein – a pro...

"A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house" from the #1 international bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf (Tom Holland, author of Dominion).Named a Best Book of the Year by The Times (London) • New Statesman (London) • Daily Express (London) • CommonwealIn the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small ...

IL CAPOLAVORO DELL'AUTORE DEL COMANDANTE DI AUSHWITZ«Uno straordinario affresco di storia sociale, raccontato con un incredibile talento narrativo». The Times«Molto più di un romanzo su una famiglia: un racconto di guerra, spionaggio, omicidio e politica, segregazione razziale e sociale». Sunday TimesNella primavera del 1993, Thomas Harding andò a Berlino insieme alla nonna per visitare un...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families. A remarkable book.' Tom Holland'Personal and panoramic, heart-wrenching yet uplifting, this is history at its most alive.' A.D. Mil...

_____________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.' JOHN LE CARRÉ_____________________________________Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin f...

Het waargebeurde verhaal van een joodse nazi-jager die een van de grootste oorlogsmisdadigers opspoorde. Hanns Alexander, oudoom van de auteur, groeit op in een welvarende joodse familie in Berlijn die in de jaren dertig naar Londen vlucht. Rudolf Höss is boer, soldaat en later commandant van Auschwitz. In de nasleep van de Tweede Wereldoorlog is luitenant Hanns Alexander één van de belangrijkste nazi-jagers van de Britse overheid. Zijn meest ongrijpbare doelwit: Rudolf Höss. We volgen de ...

*****WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION***'Meticulous and gripping - a thriller that disturbs for revelations about a singular act of murder, and the national security state which we call home**'** Philippe Sands, author of East West StreetA groundbreaking examination of a terrifying murder and its aftermath by the bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and

After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include momentous titles such as Lolita, Double Helix, The Group and The Hedgehog and the Fox, with authors he championed ranging from Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy and Edna O'Brien to Henry Miller, Harold Wilson, Saul Bel...

This future history of the next thirty years, imagined by bestselling author Thomas Harding, is a compelling and startling call to action.In 2020, a researcher is shocked to find a set of notebooks detailing the history of the next thirty years. Is this a hoax? Or could it be real?The notebooks, written in the year 2050, contain interview transcripts between teenage Billy and Gran Nancy. We learn about the great climate SHOCK, when global temperatures rise ...

Opkomst en ondergang van een familiebedrijf Aan het begin van de negentiende eeuw ontsnapten Lehmann Glückstein en zijn gezin aan de pogroms van Oost-Europa en begaven zich, na een verblijf in Nederland en België, naar de Londense East End. Daar begonnen ze met niets. Ze werkten onvermoeibaar door en creëerden een kleine tabaksfabriek die uitgroeide tot het grootste cateringbedrijf ter wereld, eveneens bekend om zijn stijlvolle restaurants en hotels: J. Lyons. Meer dan een eeuw lang was Ly...

Hanns și Rudolf de Thomas Harding relatează cum un tânăr refugiat german înrolat în armata britanică – unchiul autorului – a reușit în 1945 să îl prindă și să îl aresteze pe Rudolf Höss, comandantul de la Auschwitz, unul dintre cei mai mari criminali de război din istorie. Harding trasează în paralel cele două vieți cu o măiestrie remarcabilă.„Un thriller captivant, o crimă cumplită, o istorie de care nu ne putem lipsi.” - JOHN LE CARRÉ