Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

Simon Winchester, big apple instances bestselling writer of The Professor and the Madman, examines the mythical annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which used to be by way of an incredible tsunami that killed approximately 40 thousand humans. the consequences of the massive waves have been felt as far-off as France.

All That I Am: A Novel

Award-winning writer Anna Funder can provide an affecting and wonderfully evocative debut novel a couple of team of younger German exiles who possibility their lives to evoke the area to the terrifying possibility of Hitler and Nazi Germany. in response to real-life occasions and folks, All that i'm brings to mild the heroic, tragic, and precise tale of a small team of left-wing German social activists who fixed a fierce and crafty resistance from their perilous London exile, in a unique that enthusiasts of Suite Francaise, The Piano instructor, and Atonement will locate impossible to resist and unforgettable.

The White Woman on the Green Bicycle: A Novel

A superbly written, unforgettable novel of a stricken marriage, set opposed to the luxurious panorama and political turmoil of Trinidad Monique Roffey's Orange Prize-shortlisted novel is a gripping portrait of postcolonialism that stands between nice works by way of Caribbean writers like Jamaica Kincaid and Andrea Levy.

Islands of History

Marshall Sahlins facilities those essays on islands—Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand—whose histories have intersected with eu historical past. yet he's additionally concerned about the insular considering in Western scholarship that creates fake dichotomies among earlier and current, among constitution and occasion, among the person and society.