Cyril Azouvi ; Julian Peltier

1942 is het jaar waarin de dynamiek van de Tweede Wereldoorlog op vele fronten in de wereld ingrijpend verandert. Door talrijke militaire overwinninge

Medieval Latin Lives of Muhammad helps trace the persistence of old cliches as well as the evolution of new attitudes toward Islam and its prophet ove

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall wher

We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch.We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation.She will change the way you see the world.

Neil is op een kruispunt in zijn leven aanbeland wanneer hij besluit om opnieuw plaats te nemen in de collegebanken. De gescheiden vader en gewezen ac

The surviving works of the Roman Emperor Julian "the Apostate" (331 or 332-363 CE) include eight Orations; Misopogon (Beard-hater), assailing the mora

Examines the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, th

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; A compelling weave of fict

At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love b

Even if we don't believe that Jesus was the son of God, we tend to think he was a great moral teacher. But was he? And how closely do idealised values

In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert.

‘The best biography of De Gaulle in any language’ - Spectator. Julian Jackson’s magnificent biography of Charles de Gaulle spans the life of this tita

The Booker Prize-winning author of THE SENSE OF AN ENDING takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering s

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.First lo

Geoffrey Braithwaite, een ouder wordende arts wiens vrouw is overleden, raakt gefascineerd door het leven en werk van Flaubert en reist regelmatig naa