Results for: books tagged ‘Berlin’
Strange Hours Travelers Keep: August Kleinzahler
August Kleinzahler's new poems stretch and go places he has never gone before: they have his signature high colour and rhythmic jump, but they take on a breadth of voice ... More
Dr Berlin: Francis Bennett
Dr Berlin is the third novel, Making Enemies and Secret Kingdom being the previous two, in Francis Bennett's Cold War trilogy. All three are reissued in Faber Finds. Like the ... More
St Martin's Ride: Paul Binding
St Martin's Ride was first published in 1990 just after the tumultuous events of the previous year that reshaped Europe. It was timely then, it is timely now.Born in 1943, ... More
The Pardon of Saint Anne: William Palmer
Working as a news photographer in 1930s Berlin, Walther Klinger becomes, by a vicious twist of fate, a society photographer for the new aristocracy of the Nazi party. Walther's complicity ... More
Very Like a Whale: Ferdinand Mount
Pheasant-shooting on the Wiltshire downs; East-West conflict in a Berlin night club; infighting in city boardrooms; and sexual skirmishing in the Kensington outback, on the fringes of Winkhill golf club ... More
Bicycle Diaries: David Byrne
Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes, and starting ... More
Lights Out in Wonderland: DBC Pierre
Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. More
The History of History: Ida Hattemer-Higgins
Harrowing and provocative, The History of History tells a tale of obsessive love, family ruptures, and a nation's grief. A stunning debut. More