Impossible Exile - Stefan Zweig at the End of the World (Prochnik George)(Paperback / softback)

Impossible Exile - Stefan Zweig at the End of the World (Prochnik George)(Paperback / softback)

A moving and original examination of Stefan Zweig's tragic decline from universal acclaim to obscurity and suicide in

Society of the Crossed Keys - Selections from the Writings of Stefan Zweig, Inspirations for The Grand Budapest Hotel (Zweig Stefan (Author))(Paperback / softback)

Stefan Zweig's masterpiece

Quiet at the End of the World (James Lauren)(Paperback / softback)

World of Yesterday - Memoirs of a European (Zweig Stefan (Author))(Paperback / softback)

Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividly to

Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe (Zweig Stefan)(Paperback)

A new collection of essays by Stefan Zweig: tributes to the great artists and thinkers of the Europe of his day Stefan Zweig was one of the twentieth century's greatest authors and a tireless champion of freedom, tolerance and friendship across borders. Encounters and Destinies collects his most

Finistere - Things to See and Do at the End of the World (Mewes Wendy)(Paperback / softback)

The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig (Zweig Stefan)(Paperback)

Collected in one volume for the first time: 22 classic short stories of love and death, betrayal and hope--from a master storyteller hailed as 'the Updike of his day' (New York Observer) In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig's short stories, the very best and worst of human nature is

Nietzsche (Zweig Stefan)(Paperback)

A scintillating biographical study of the one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the bestselling writers of the twentieth. In this vivid biography, Zweig eschews traditional academic discussion and focuses on Nietzsche's habits, passions and obsessions. This work,

Cabin at the End of the World (Tremblay Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The Stoker Award-winning, taut and propulsive twist on home invasion horror, packed psychological suspense. Soon to be a major film, Knock At the Cabin, directed by M. Night Shyamalan.Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire

Last Days Of Stefan Zweig (Seksik Laurent)(Paperback / softback)

Hunting Evil (Walters Guy)(Paperback / softback)

At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, and what

Marie Antoinette (Zweig Stefan)(Paperback)

International bestseller: 'The most influential biography of Marie Antoinette' (The Guardian), from the great twentieth-century writer Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her

Things to do Before the End of the World (Barr Emily)(Paperback / softback)

Post Office Girl - Stefan Zweig's Grand Hotel Novel (Zweig Stefan)(Paperback / softback)

A young Austrian woman, Christine, toils away in a provincial post office when, out of the blue, a telegram arrives inviting her to join an American aunt she's never known in a fashionable Swiss resort. She accepts and is swept up into a world of almost inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire

Light at the End of the Day (Wasserberg Eleanor)(Paperback / softback)

Our Man - Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (Packer George)(Paperback / softback)

Iron Curtain - The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 (Applebaum Anne)(Paperback / softback)

At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: Communism

One Billion Years to the End of the World (Strugatsky Arkady)(Paperback / softback)

On Canaan's Side (Barry Sebastian)(Paperback / softback)

The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and

Journeys (Zweig Stefan)(Paperback)

A collection of the great writer's observations, made during his travels across the Europe he loved so much When I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free - There is something in it marvellously uplifting and invigorating. Whole past epochs

Magellan (Zweig Stefan)(Paperback)

The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history - he was the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, although he was killed en route in a battle in the Philippines.In this

Montaigne (Zweig Stefan)(Paperback)

A brilliant and impassioned biography of one of the founding fathers of humanism, from one of its greatest defenders in the 20th century Written during the Second World War, Zweig's typically passionate and readable biography of Michel de Montaigne, is also a heartfelt argument for the importance

The Ends of the World (Viveiros De Castro Eduardo)(Paperback)

The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face

A Game of Chess and Other Stories: New Translation (Zweig Stefan)(Paperback)

When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger challenges him to a game. Czentovic easily defeats him, but during the rematch a mysterious Austrian, Dr B., intervenes and, to the surprise of everyone,