NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS: As a foreign correspondent and TV journalist David Tereshschuk has reported from many of the world's most intractable troublespots but one question continues to elude him: who his father was. RECOMMENDED BY CARL BERNSTEIN, NEAL ASCHERSON AND CARY BARBOR
NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS: Michael Goldfarb's translator and guide when covering Gulf War 2 for National Public Radio in 2003 was Ahmad Shawkat, an Iraqi Kurd who longed for... Læs mere
A portrait of a region on the cusp of change and a passionate argument for universal humanism in a time of division
A novel about identity crisis in New York of the 1980s at a time of increasingly fluid gender relationships
Brother Jacobus of Vienna travels to Northumbria to investigate strange events in this gripping medieval mystery.
Award-winning TV producer David Britton has offended most of his staff, his wife wants a divorce, he’s getting hate mail, and he’s being harassed by religious freaks. It's not the best time to be trying to sell his media company.
Richard Cullen's reconstruction of the life of society-debutante Margaret McLaren-Reid in the British Empire during the interwar years and subsequently as a wife on the diplomatic circuit.
When composer Luke Ottevanger lost his ability to write music, he sent himself on a series of therapeutic musical journeys, to explore how the landscapes of Britain had liberated musicians in the past. The Sound of the Place is his thoughtful account of a self-imposed quest.
NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS: When Professor Arthur Lash takes his American family back to Vienna in 1960 to visit his father, the comfortable assumptions of their life in upstate New York are suddenly overturned by the stresses of foreign travel.
Five examples of traditional children's stories—from ancient legend to Grimms’ fairy tales—brought up to date with modern sensibilities.
Essential reading for anyone wanting an introduction to the first half century of Africa's post-colonial history.