The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
10 best books like The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City (Iris Origo): Jazz, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Kudos, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Outline, Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας, The Weather in the Streets, Transit, Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0452269652 |
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story...
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller, written in richly evocative, luminous prose.
One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous...
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| ISBN | 0393343405 |
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.
Nearly...
| Author | Rachel Cusk |
| ISBN | 1473524334 |
Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.
A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface...
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
In these first five stories about Poe's detective Auguste Dupin, he establishes many of the traditions or motifs we know from classic detective fiction. The eccentric but brilliant detective who solves the mystery merely by analysing the facts from his armchair, the mystery of how a murder was committed...
| Author | Rachel Cusk |
| ISBN | 0571233627 |
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives.
Beginning with the neighbouring passenger...
Στους γάμους του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας ήταν η τελευταία φορά όπου, με την ευκαιρία εκείνης της γιορτής, οι θεοί του Ολύμπου κάθισαν στο ίδιο τραπέζι με...
| Author | Rosamond Lehmann |
| ISBN | 1844083063 |
Taking up where Invitation to the Waltz left off, The Weather in the Streets shows us Olivia Curtis ten years older, a failed marriage behind her, thinner, sadder, and apprently not much wiser. A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair and a...
| Author | Rachel Cusk |
| ISBN | 0374278628 |
The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of 2015.
In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions—personal, moral,...
Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor.
Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. Dudley Moore propositioned her....
| Author | Gianrico Carofiglio |
| ISBN | 8806220527 |
Un buon investigatore deve essere capace di costruire una storia, immaginare che cosa è successo prima e dopo il crimine, come in un romanzo. Poi, costruita la storia, deve andare in cerca di ciò che la conferma e la contraddice. Così pensa il maresciallo dei carabinieri Pietro Fenoglio, piemontese...
| Author | Rob van Essen |
| ISBN | 9025453414 |
In "De goede zoon' trekt Rob van Essen de lezer een omgeving in die dystopische trekken vertoont en tegelijk angstaanjagend herkenbaar is. In een wereld waar invoering van het basisinkomen heeft gezorgd voor lethargie en stijgend museumbezoek reizen twee mannen af naar het zuiden met een geheime...
