Other Press: 294 books
by Simon Mawer
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Like his great-great-great-uncle, geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert struggles to unlock the secrets of heredity and genetic determinism. However, Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he was born with achondroplasia--he's a dwarf. He's also a man desperate...
Galore
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Caribbean & Canada and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award; Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Book Award, and the Winterset Award
When a whale beaches...
Diary of the Fall
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
From one of Granta’s Best Young Brazilian Novelists, a literary masterpiece that will break your heart
At the narrator’s elite Jewish school in a posh suburb of Porte Alegre, a cruel prank leaves the only Catholic student there terribly injured. Years later, he relives the episode as he...
Tightrope
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
**From the author of the best-selling and Booker Prize–shortlisted The Glass Room and Trapeze
An historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape...
Prague Spring
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story that mixes sex, politics, and betrayal.
In the summer of 1968--a year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter--Oxford students...
Article 353
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
This atmospheric noir novel retraces the steps that led to a murder off the coast of Brittany, probing the relationship between law and justice.
In a depressed town on France's northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murder of real estate developer Antoine Lazenec...
This House is Haunted
A Novel by the Author of The Heart's Invisible Furies
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Written in Dickensian prose, This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during...
In Her Absence
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
"[A] translucent novel of passion, illusion and social class....slyly witty and luminous."
—Francine Prose in O, The Oprah Magazine
During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives....
Utopia Parkway
The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
**Deborah Solomon’s definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America’s most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued twenty years later with updated and extensively revised text
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Few artists ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius...
Fromms
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child....
Climates
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Written in 1928 by French biographer and novelist Andre Maurois, Climates became a best seller in France and all over Europe. The first 100,000 copies printed of its Russian translation sold out the day they appeared in Moscow bookstores. This magnificently written novel about a double conjugal failure...
High
Confession of an International Drug Smuggler
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
In the early 1980s, Brian O’Dea was operating a $100 million a year, 120-man drug smuggling business, and had developed a terrifying cocaine addiction. Under increasing threat from the DEA in 1986 for importing seventy-five tons of marijuana into the United States, he quit the trade–and the drugs–and...
Not I
Memoirs of a German Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
A portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance
Few writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of...
"Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times
The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes the arrangement to his brother Georges as a “functional” marriage. Meanwhile, an intense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctor suffering fromtuberculosis. Four years later, Veza...