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Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe |
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| In the author’s own words: “It is set during the Brussels World’s Fair of 1958. It’s a comic novel of the Cold War, mixing espionage, politics and romance. I think of it as John Le Carré meets Evelyn Waugh, although a friend who read it said it was more like GK Chesterton meeting Alfred Hitchcock.” |
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Sinalcol by Elias Khoury |
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| By a giant of Lebanese literature, the new novel that does for Lebanon what his literary masterpiece Gate of the Sun did for Palestine. |
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La Transmigración de los cuerpos by Yuri Herrera |
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| The third novel by the new treasure of Mexican literature. In an unspecified city, paralysed by a mysterious epidemic, a man is on a mission of biblical redemption.
On his way, he will meet a beautiful blond woman and he will become involved in a tragedy of Shakespearian proportions. Pure grace.
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Eines abends in Paris by Nicolas Barreau |
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| In a little cinema in Paris dreams suddenly come true. After the great word-of-mouth success of Gli ingredienti segreti dell’amore (Das laechlen der frauen), the new novel by one of last year’s most romantic international surprises. |
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Cypherpunk. Internet and the future of freedom by Julian Assange |
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Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyber-space to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave us.
"Obligatory reading for everyone interested in the reality of our freedoms."
Slavoj Žižek |
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Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott |
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| Based on an incredibly successful play, the next big book on environment and sustainability from a leading scientist. What will come of us when there are 10 billion people living on planet earth? Written with the gripping suspense of a thriller, it tells the terrible story of an impending disaster: our own. |
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Of Africa by Wole Soyinka |
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| Nobel-laureate Soyinka offers a wide-ranging inquiry into Africa's culture, religion, history, imagination, and identity. |
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