Few things scare us more than inner emptiness. The presumed emptiness of coma or dementia scares us so much that we even sign living wills to avoid these states. Yet, as Zen masters have long known, i
We are now living in a world where Brexit and Trump are daily realities. But how did this come about? And what does it mean for the future?Populism and ultra-nationalism brought about the rise of Hitl
In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empi
In his acclaimed book about identity, What About Me?, Paul Verhaeghe made this trenchant diagnosis: “We live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared . . . traditional au
A Murder Without Motive is a police procedural, a meditation on suffering, and an exploration of how the different parts of the justice system make sense of the senseless. It is also a unique memoir:
Born into a wealthy family in northern England and sent to boarding school to be educated by nuns, Ivory Frame rebels. She escapes to interwar Paris, where she finds herself through art, and falls in
‘He was a highly accomplished and absolutely fearless combat photographer. Wounded many times and even buried by shellfire, he always came through. At times he brought in the wounded, at other times h
A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media.Les Hinton was 15 when he first worked for Rupert Murdoch, and Murdoch’s “empi
Until very recently, people believed that certain paintings contained a remnant of a magic force. Bafdescu stood at the crest of this faith, just before the wave broke, when it seemed that the magic f
These are the last adult witnesses — in their own words.When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he quickly began to realise his dream of a racially superior nation free of ‘inferior’ g
The second Leone Scamarcio thriller.As autumn sets in, the queues outside the soup kitchens of Rome are lengthening, and the people are taking to the piazzas, increasingly frustrated by the deepening
Shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript AwardHe shouldn’t have a life he never asked for and be expected to love men. With their problems never spoken outward. And childhoo
The third in Jonathan King’s acclaimed WW1 centennial trilogy. ‘In the history of the world there never was a greater victory than that which was achieved in Palestine.’ — Prime Minister Billy Hughes
‘A man’s eye is accommodative, like his heart.’Samuel Browne’s wife has left him suddenly after three years of marriage. She invites him to ‘go and live a better life without me’. He must start again,
The lyrical, bestselling German Book Prize winner.It is 1989, and a young literature student named Ed, fleeing unspeakable tragedy, travels to the Baltic island of Hiddensee. Long shrouded in myth, th
From one of Granta’s Best Young Brazilian Novelists comes a startling and powerful story about returning to one’s origins in order to move forward.In Rio de Janeiro, a woman suffering from a mysteriou
On a bright spring day in 2015, as Georgia Blain was mowing the lawn, she collapsed on a bed of blossoms, blood frothing at her mouth. Waking up to find herself in the back of an ambulance being rushe
"Hello, Mr. Lavender. I hear you have a house for sale. Boulder House?""I might have. That depends.""On what?" "On who's asking."Mr Lavender explained that he was considering selling. California was r
Life has never been more stressful. It is no coincidence that chronic degenerative disorders such as cancer, heart disease, autoimmune illnesses, and mental-health conditions are on the rise. But if w
