Land Memoir

'You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow' A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy. 'Maggie O'Farrell is a miracle in every sense' Ann Patchett 'Maggie O'Farrell takes up a bow...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner, a “raw and inspiring” (People) memoir...

A gripping blend of family mystery, contemporary stories and the beautiful and bloody Viking tales, set against the starkly stunning landscape of Iceland. Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kari Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who settled on that remote island in the Middle Ages. These are tales of blood feuds, of dangerous women and people who are compelled to kill the ones they love the most.

Following on from the events in A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land sees Gerald Durrell and his wife Jacquie travel to Argentina to collect animals for their newly established zoo. With rare insight and unique charm, Durrell pulls the listener into the tropical landscape of Patagonia, where he witnesses magical moments with penguins, seals and ocelots, and encounters a hilarious cast of characters, including a swearing parrot and a belching guanaco.

Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On a whim, she accepts an exciting position in Saudi Arabia. This is not just a new job; this is a chance at adventure in an exotic land she thinks she understands, a place she hopes she will belong. What she discovers is vastly different. The Kingdom is a world apart, a land of unparalleled contrast. She finds rejection and scorn in the places she believed would most embrace her.

In a remarkable feat of biography, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the intellectual creation of the poem and brings the material reality of its charged times vividly to life. Presenting a mosaic of historical fragments, diaries, dynamic literary criticism and illuminating new research, he reveals the cultural and personal trauma that forged The Waste Land through the lives of its protagonists.

When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she'd given up as she left New York, her home of thirty years, she tried to knit herself into the fabric of a changed London. The move raised poignant questions about place: What does it mean to leave the place you have adopted as home and country? And what is the value and cost of uprooting yourself?

There are many reasons why it might seem unwise to walk, mostly alone, through the Middle East. That, in part, is exactly why Leon McCarron did it. From Jerusalem, McCarron followed a series of wild hiking trails that trace ancient trading and pilgrimage routes and traverse some of the most contested landscapes in the world. In the West Bank, he met families struggling to lead normal lives amidst political turmoil and had a surreal encounter with the world's oldest and smallest religious sect.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of Canada's most beloved and celebrated Newfoundlanders comes a rollicking insider's guide to the province, told as only Alan Doyle can tell it. Few Canadian musicians are as synonymous with their home province as Alan Doyle is to his—and even fewer once worked as...

What if I told you that in 1912, the most prosperous community in North Georgia wasn't owned by white plantation families, but by the grandchildren of enslaved people who had built an agricultural and business empire that surpassed anything their former masters had ever achieved? In the rolling hills of Forsyth County, Georgia, an extraordinary experiment in American freedom was unfolding.

A delivery driver finds himself inside a world occupied by characters from unfinished novels and must accept he is not real. But the world around him doesn’t feel right, and when he starts asking questions, the authorities soon take extreme measures to stop him finding the truth about Fiction Land.

Die Bundeswehr benötigt angesichts der dramatisch veränderten Sicherheitslage in Europa deutlich mehr Soldatinnen und Soldaten. Gleichzeitig ist die Wiedereinführung der Wehrpflicht hochumstritten. David Matei ist seit über 14 Jahren bei der Bundeswehr, zunächst zehn Jahre als Gebirgsjäger und zuletzt in der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit als Jugendoffizier. Matei erzählt, was ihn zu diesem Dienst bewogen hat und warum er bereit ist, für sein Land zu kämpfen.

One of Vogue’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020 One of Parade’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020 One of Esquire’s 15 Best Books of the Winter One of Bitch Magazine’s 17 Memoirs Feminists Should Read in 2020 One of Maclean’s 10 Books to Watch in 2020 “The memoir I’ve been waiting for: a...

I strive to create an example of all that I can be so that others in my situation can see disability for what it is. Disability does not separate me from anyone. All people are disabled, and only some are temporarily enabled. Everyone will age. Everyone will need a little help. If people understand this, then all are equal. - Thomas. Thomas is a brilliant student, an advocate for people with special needs, and a loving son and brother. He has a rare form of muscular dystrophy that over a short time leaves him completely, physically helpless.

A revelatory and powerful testament of protest, courage, and imprisonment in America’s deportation regime ‘Are you Mahmoud Khalil?’ This was the question asked by ICE as they took the Palestinian student and U.S. legal resident from his pregnant wife and home in New York City, transported...

An epic journey on foot from Dingle to Burr Point in search of Ireland’s lost footpaths, and a quest to unravel the complexities of countryside access in Ireland and Britain. Ireland is a pathless land. Public access to the Irish countryside is more limited than almost anywhere else in Europe...

A New York City Book Awards winner From an award-winning artist who was featured in Humans of New York comes a bold personal narrative about overcoming family trauma, addiction, poverty—and forging a creative life in the greatest city in the world. Born in Brooklyn in 1963, Patrick Dougher...

Geography dealt Korea a fateful role. Sandwiched between China and Japan, and within easy reach of Russia, Korea has suffered five major foreign occupations-by China, Mongolia, Japan, and after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union. It was in that tiny peninsula I was born when Korea was under the heel of Japan, when we were forced to take Japanese names and speak Japanese. With the end of World War II came the liberation, which was soon followed by the Korean War.

FLORIAN KIRNER, auch bekannt als PRINZ CHAOS II. , erzählt mit Charme und Finesse, wie er ohne Geld zur Rettung eines schwer sanierungsbedürftigen Schlosses in Südthüringen antrat: eine spektakuläre Geschichte über die Integration und Sturheit eines Bayern in Ostdeutschland - vollgestopft mit saukomischen und hochdramatischen Begebenheiten. Ein Buch über Denkmalpflege und Verwaltungslogik, zwischenmenschliche Schönheiten und Abgründe, wilde Schlossfeste, Wandergesellen, Neonazis, Paradiesvögel und die Absurditäten der Corona-Politik im ländlichen Raum.