The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a sometimes brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic, while his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who has been marked by the Nazi past, speaks to them in German. He himself wants to speak English. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when they hunt him down in the streets and dub him Eichmann, as they bring him to trial and sentence him to death at a mock seaside court.

"A colorful introduction to one of the most influential businessmen in history" (The New York Times Book Review), Jacob Fugger—the Renaissance banker "who wrote the playbook for everyone who keeps score with money" (Bryan Burrough, author of Days of Rage).

"Forse in nessun autore del Novecento il rapporto fra l'opera e la vita, il «vissuto» e il «poetato» è così stretto e, insieme, inafferrabile come in Walter Benjamin. La raccolta esaustiva di tutti i suoi testi di carattere autobiografico che questo libro propone (dai curricula vitae ai diari, dagli appunti di viaggio ai testi narrativi come Cronaca berlinese) è, per questo, tanto più indispensabile quanto più sembra lasciarci inappagati, quasi che il velo che l'autore ha inteso stendere sulla sua biografia s'infittisse nella misura esatta in cui egli prova a raccontarcela nei suoi più minuti particolari. Nel prologo a Infanzia berlinese, Benjamin ci informa che, richiamando alla memoria i suoi ricordi infantili, ha voluto servirsene come una vaccinazione contro la nostalgia. I tratti biografici si ritirano così nell'ombra e lasciano il posto alle «immagini in cui l'esperienza della grande città si sedimenta in un bambino della classe media».

It happens that behind the legendary concert was a string of events no less amazing. Reads like an adventure.

'A band of stubborn pioneers rose from the embers of Britain's cities after World War Two and created the finest automobiles the world had ever seen … High Performance tells the exhilarating tale of their journey down the fast lane.' Ben Collins, bestselling author of The Man In The White Suit and How To Drive

In The Bells of Old Tokyo, Anna Sherman explores Japan and revels in all its wonderful particularity. As a foreigner living in Tokyo, Sherman's account takes pleasure and fascination in the history and culture of a country that can seem startlingly strange to an outsider.

A fascinating and poignant memoir of the body and its care, told through the experiences of a young nurse.

Born in 1926, the year of the General Strike, Margaret Ford grew up with her brother Bobby in the mill town of Blackburn where her father worked in his parents' pub. She was too young to understand her mother's unhappiness or that her father was gambling away any money he earned. Then, when she was ten, her father abandoned his family, leaving her mother struggling to survive. Margaret took the hard decision to leave school at thirteen and get a job in the dye works to help pay the rent. Later that year war broke out . . .