Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award and an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature, Christopher Koch returns with Lost Voices, a remarkable new novel that confirms him as one of our most significant and compelling novelists.Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Christopher Koch returns with a remarkable novel of gripping narrative power. Young Hugh Dixon believes he can save his father from ruin if he asks his estranged great-uncle Wa...

Der Sammelband gibt eine Antwort auf die in Politik und Wissenschaft verbreitete Totalitarismustheorie, die den deutsch-sowjetischen Nichtangriffsvertrag vom 23.8.1939 als Verständigung zweier wesensverwandter Diktaturen über die Aufteilung Europas und der Welt interpretiert. Die Beiträge erhellen den tatsächlichen Charakter des Vertrags, die deutschen und die sowjetischen Motive für seinen Abschluss sowie seine Bedeutung für die militärische Niederringung des Dritten Reiches und damit für...

Der Sammelband vereinigt Beiträge der gleichnamigen Tagung, die im Oktober 2018 unter Beteiligung von Historikern aus drei Kontinenten an der Freien Universität Berlin stattfand. Sie behandeln die Auswirkungen des Ersten Weltkriegs, der den Zusammenbruch der Kaiserreiche und des Sultanats zeitigte, den besiegten Staaten das Ende des Feudalstaats brachte und das Geschick ihrer Völker in die Hände eines seit langem erstarkten Bürgertums oder wenigstens einer am westlichen Vorbild orientierte...

Millions of people-many of them younger than we care to believe-are living in the aftermath of a heart attack, and it is vital for them to learn how to reduce the risk factors for subsequent heart problems. This unique and important book offers advice to survivors of a heart attack and also to those trying to prevent the onset of a heart attack. Contributors include not only distinguished medical professionals but also eleven individuals who either participated in a cardiac rehabilitatio...

The success of individual nation states today is often measured in terms of their ability to benefit from and contribute to a host of global economic, political, socio-cultural, technological, and educational networks. This increased multifaceted international inter-dependence represents an intuitively contradictory and an immensely complex situation. This scenario requires that national governments, whose primary responsibility is towards their citizenry, must relinquish a degree of contr...

Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award"It came one morning with the milk, and it seemed - at first - almost as innocent..."When Roberta "Bertie" Lightfoot is struck down with polio, her world collapses. But Mama doesn't tolerate self-pity, and Bertie is nobody if not her mother's daughter - until she sets her heart on becoming an artist. Through drawing, the gifted and perceptive Bertie gives form and voice to the reality of the people and the wo...

UGLY. IRASCIBLE. INTOLERANT. CLEVER. The brilliant second instalment in the compelling new series to rival Rumpole and Rake from one of our leading legal minds, QC Stuart Littlemore.A brilliant new instalment in the compelling series that rivals Rumpole and Rake. the renegade barrister Harry Curry and his elegant partner, Arabella Engineer, return with more thrilling spanner-in-the-works criminal trials, every one of them in defence of clients charged with murder. Meet the multiple ...

The bestselling author of Schindler’s List and The Daughters of Mars returns with an “insightful and nimble...consistently fresh and engaging” (The New York Times Book Review) novel—based on a true story—about the remarkable friendship between a quick-witted young woman and one of history’s most intriguing figures, Napoleon Bonaparte, during the final years of his life in exile.In October 1815, after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, ...

Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe -- exploring the seductive new world of the Internet, his father dead, his mother struggling to get by.Their stories alternate throughout Michelle de Kretser's ravishing novel, culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel -- voluntary in her case, enforced in his.With money from an inheritance, Laura sets...

DCI David Brock and DI Kathy Kolla, of Scotland Yard, find themselves pulled into a case of murder, a mysterious death among the houseboats that line the canals around greater London, in Barry Maitland's The Raven's Eye.DI Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard is called in as a matter of course by the local Paddington police when a woman turns up dead in what appears to be an accident. On her houseboat, Vicky Hawks is found by one of her neighbors having apparently ...

A brutal murder shatters a small Australian town, leaving a sister to grapple with grief and a community to confront its darkest secrets.When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm is Bella's beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the local pub, whose apparently easygoing nature conceals hard-won wisdom and the kind of stree...

“A gripping tale . . . A convincing, page-turning evocation of recent history.”—The New York TimesRay Barton travels to war-ravaged Southeast Asia to search for his missing friend Michael Langford, a brilliant, risk-taking combat photographer who was stolen into Khmer Rouge Cambodia on a mysterious mission and disappeared. The search illuminates Langford’s heroism, his fierce loyalties, and the personal highways he has traveled to war. Langford’s empathy for the brave but ...