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Critical Lives

An insightful biography of Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest novelists of all time.

Zorin Andrei: Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Reclaims John Clare from myth through poetry, place, and personal voice. John Clare's life has often been told by casting him in various parts--rural genius, thwarted lover, environmentalist, lunatic poet. This biography revisits those familiar stories with a fresh perspective, setting Clare's own words alongside a sharp reappraisal of his times. Drawing from his autobiographical writings, journals, letters, and poetry, it presents a rich, grounded portrait of the man and the places that shaped him. Clare's sense of identity, rooted in the land around him, was central to his voice as a poet. Through attentive readings of his verse, this book traces the creative and emotional arc of a life both ordinary and extraordinary. Clare emerges not as a tragic stereotype but as a deeply thoughtful writer confronting change with clarity and care.

John Clare

One of the Best Books of 2025: Music at the Financial Times An introduction to the life and work of the impressionist French composer. Maurice Ravel is one of the twentieth century's most intriguing and contradictory composers. This biography, published for the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, describes Ravel's journey from Parisian apprentice to global musical icon. Drawing on fresh research, Emily Kilpatrick reveals Ravel as both a daring provocateur and a reflective elder, his lifelong quest for originality driven by his deep love of history and literature. Set against a background of profound cultural and political upheaval, Ravel's story unfolds through his battles with the artistic establishment, his creative resilience after wartime losses, and the tragic incapacitation of his final years. The result is an intimate portrait of a composer whose music continues to enchant and challenge audiences worldwide.

Maurice Ravel

'A towering achievement'MERVE EMRENYT Best New Books of 2026A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how forests have made - and resisted - Russia's many empires.From the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the Steppes of Central Asia, Russia's forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world's wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever English-language exploration of this vast expanse - a dazzling environmental history of Russia that offers an urgent new understanding of the nature of Russian power, and of Russia's ideas of itself.Inspired by the majestic oak, which towers over the country's western heartland, and the hardy Siberian larch, an emblem of survival in the east, award winning scholar Sophie Pinkham's magisterial account spans centuries, revealing how forests have nourished ancient Siberian Indigenous societies, defended medieval Slavic settlements from Mongol invasion and served as both an essential natural resource and a potent cultural symbol for Russia in all its incarnations, from the days of the tsars to the Soviets to Putin's Federation.By examining the country from the forest's perspective, Pinkham pushes far beyond the contemporary political environment in Russia. She draws on literature, history and art to connect the expanse of the Russian wilderness and the nature of Russian culture, with indelible portraits of the diverse figures who have inhabited and celebrated these forests: the legendary Indigenous guide Dersu Uzala, giants of literature like Tolstoy and Chekhov, political thinkers like Kropotkin and even Stalin. She confronts the forest's role in Russia's long history of imperial conquest, and in resistance to this conquest.Gorgeously written and surprising at every turn, The Oak and the Larch offers a vision of Russia rarely seen in the West, as a land defined by its wilderness, shaped by its encounters with the frontier, and - much like our own - ultimately beholden to nature's whim.

A Forest History of Russia and its Empires

The Oak and The Larch

Als Annette Dittert am 31. Januar 2020 um Mitternacht vor der Downing Street stand, um live in den ARD-Tagesthemen darüber zu berichten, dass der Brexit in dieser Nacht nun endgültig vollzogen sei, schossen ihr kurz vor der Schalte plötzlich Tränen in die Augen. Längst war London ihr Zuhause geworden. Jetzt war der Bruch mit der EU nicht mehr umkehrbar. Für sie und viele Briten, die bis zum Schluss noch auf einen anderen Ausgang gehofft hatten, ein bedrückender Tag. 
Zehn Jahre später fragt sich Annette Dittert, was aus dem Land geworden ist. Sie nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise über die Insel: Wir besuchen die Royal Albert Hall und das House of Lords, schwimmen mit der Frauengruppe 'Blue Tits' im Meer an der Ostküste der Insel, plaudern mit Schotten, Priestern und Earls. Und sind bei der Autorin auf ihrem Narrowboat Emilia zu Gast, einem kleinen bunten Boot aus Stahl am Regent's Canal, mitten im Zentrum Londons. So entsteht ein facettenreiches Bild der eigenwillig-charmanten Briten, deren prekäre wirtschaftliche und soziale Situation - nicht nur infolge des EU-Austritts - im Alltag spürbar ist und die doch stets Haltung bewahren.

'Jedes Mal, wenn Annette Dittert in der ARD zugeschaltet wurde, dachte ich erfreut: Let the show begin. Und genau so liest sich dieses Buch. Annette Dittert verbindet politische Analyse mit persönlicher Erfahrung jahrelanger Korrespondentenzeit. So entsteht ein vielschichtiger, oft überraschender Blick auf ein Land, das vielen Deutschen vertraut scheint und das sich doch erst wirklich erschließt, wenn man Einblicke hinter seine Rituale, Widersprüche und Eigenheiten erhält. Und die liefert Annette Dittert und nicht zu wenig. Grandios! ' NATALIE AMIRI

'Dieses fantastische Buch ist ebenso unterhaltsam wie klug. Ein tiefer Blick in die Seele der Briten, geschrieben fast wie ein Roman. Ich konnte nicht aufhören zu lesen!' ULRICH WICKERT

Auf der Suche nach der Seele Großbritanniens

Dear Britain

Nach einer Notoperation mit daraus folgender Krebsdiagnose beschließt die Autorin, sich mit ihrer Krankheit auf die Reise zu begeben, anstatt gegen sie zu kämpfen. Offen für einen Neubeginn mit allen Konsequenzen, hört sie zu, was der Tumor ihr sagt und schreibt - mit ihm als "Freund und Begleiter" im Miteinander von Schul- und Komplementärmedizin - eine Geschichte des Heilwerdens.

Mit bedingungsloser Freude am Dasein bringt sie gesellschaftliche Tabus, ungeliebte Gefühle und Gedanken ins Licht und birgt aus der tiefsten Krise staunende Leichtigkeit. Sie führt uns die Kraft der Wandlung vor Augen, die in unserer Verletztheit liegt. Ein tief berührendes, mutiges und ermutigendes Buch.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025 'Virtuosic' Spectator 'Compulsively interesting and beautifully written - there is something to treasure on every page. I absolutely loved it' Zadie Smith 'Illuminating and thrilling ... An exceptional portrayal of this legendary figure' Bernadine Evaristo '[A] gloriously written and exhaustively researched page-turner' Jacqueline Woodson __________ 'For me,' wrote James Baldwin in 1959, 'the difficulty is to remain in touch with the private life. The private life, his own and that of others, is the writer's subject - his key and ours to his achievement.' Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals how profoundly the writer's personal relationships shaped his life and work. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material and original research and interviews, this spellbinding book tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; with his lover and muse, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and with his collaborators, the famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac, whose long-overlooked significance as Baldwin's last great love is explored in these pages for the first time. Nicholas Boggs shows how Baldwin drew on all the complex forces within these relationships - geographical, cultural, political, artistic, and erotic - and alchemised them into novels, essays and plays that speak truth to power and which had an indelible impact on the civil rights movement and on Black and queer literary history. Richly immersive, Baldwin: A Love Story follows the writer's creative journey between Harlem, Paris, Switzerland, the southern United States, Istanbul, Africa, the South of France, and beyond. In so doing, it magnifies our understanding of the public and private lives of one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, whose contributions only continue to grow in influence.

Baldwin: A Love Story

George M. Klett

From a rent- controlled walk- up in The Bronx to financingsome of New York's most iconic properties and dealingwith prominent real estate investors; George M. Klettdemonstrates how discipline, judgment, and timingoutperform slogans and spreadsheets.The son of a sanitation worker, he worked at theneighborhood grocery store from age 11 to 19, andenlisted in the U.S. Air Force, drove a taxi, and becamea real estate banker. He translates complex real estatelending into clear, often wry stories about risk, capital, andcharacter.With a professional's Bronx sense of humor, Timing Is JustAbout Everything shows how to "bet on the jockey", navigate regulators and crises, and still keep perspectiveabout what actually matters: family, health, reputation, relationships and maintaining your integrity.

TIMING IS JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING (in business and in life)

When novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of Ranikhet, they decide it is where they will now live. After the frenetic city of Delhi, Roy is initially bemused by the gentle pace of life in the mountains but then won over: spellbound by the landscape, taken to the heart of their sometimes recalcitrant neighbours and adopted by four mountain dogs and counting. Over twenty-five years, as she becomes accustomed to living among forests where leopards roam freely, she will come to encounter nature at its most fierce, captivating and vulnerable - and bear witness to the destructive impact of global warming on the alpine ecosystem. Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya is a tender and intimate portrait of a home, a community and a rugged, extraordinary landscape. Written with unsentimental clarity, humour and poignancy, this is an account of profound transformations.

A Home in the Himalaya

Called by the Hills

A BBC RADIO FOUR BOOK OF THE WEEK: the extraordinary and riveting story of separated Chinese twins, with one twin seized by the authorities and adopted into America, by the Samuel Johnson-winning journalist who reunited them as young adults.

China's Stolen Children and a Story of Separated Twins

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

An Unfiltered Expat Guide to Working, Earning & Raising a Family in Singapore

Red Dot Relocation

From the coast of Normandy to the Côte d'Azur, along the banks of the Seine to the Alps - the ultimate literary tour of France.

'Peter Fiennes's brisk literary travelogue is witty and packed with gossip; it moves at the speed of a TGV, with the elegance of a Citroën DS.' Sebastian Faulks

Travelling in a loop around France, from Le Havre to Paris, Peter Fiennes explores France's sense of its own people, place and identity through some of its greatest writers and artists. Moving between the centuries, from the Arthurian forests and Neolithic fields of Brittany to the banlieues of Paris, Fiennes follows the threads of history across France. And wonders what is next for this sublime, mysterious and sometimes fractious country.

Fiennes drinks with Sartre and de Beauvoir in the bars of Rouen and Le Havre; follows Edith Wharton's 'Motor-Flight' along the Loire Valley to the home of George Sand; and explores the beaches of the south with Colette and Katherine Mansfield. He lingers near Bordeaux with François Mauriac, strolls in the foothills of the Alps with John Berger and follows Colette to the trenches at Verdun, before finally heading to Paris, where he consigns Maupassant to an asylum and Sartre to his grave.

A paean to the glories of French literature, art, landscape, food and wine, En Route&nbsp;is a heartfelt exploration of where the country finds itself after so many centuries at the centre of European life.

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'En Route is a tour de force.' Christopher de Bellaigue, author of The Lion House

'What bliss to travel France in the company of such great writers - including Peter Fiennes, the wittiest companion anyone could hope for.' Alex von Tunzelmann, author of Fallen Idols

'Fascinating, funny and elegiac.' Sofka Zinovieff, author of Eurydice Street

A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers

En Route

A Century of Psychotherapy

Soul Magic

Leo Tolstoy

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