Boeken Pedel

Autograph Man

Following one Alex-Li Tandem - a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion, this title takes in London and New York, love and death, fathers and sons, as Alex tries to discover how a piece of paper can bring him closer to his heart's desire.

Rembrandt Would Have Loved You

Ruth Padel's passionate new collection is a woman's eye view of a love affair, with darker undercurrents of mortality and loss. Shifting between vulnerability and guilt, innocence and doubt, tenderness and frustration, teasing reproach and the exaltation of deep love and sexual happiness, Padel's extraordinarily bold and intimate book explores the complexity of emotions that …

Padel

Padel, das als Mischung aus Tennis und Squash beschrieben werden kann, fasziniert mit seiner Dynamik und einem hohen Spaßfaktor. In Spanien und Frankreich gibt es bereits mehr Padel- als Tennisspieler und auch in Deutschland wächst die Fangemeinde stetig. Selbst bei uns wechseln immer mehr Tennisspieler zu Padel und es gibt bereits etliche Tennisclubs, die Padelplätze …

Tidings

Beautifully illustrated and exquisitely musical, Tidings is a poem to be read out loud and cherished. ‘Come with me to St Pancras Old Church, on a little London hill...’ It’s Christmas Eve and on this enchanted night Charoum, the Angel of Silence, can speak. As night turns to day, he unfolds a resonant story of …

Pádel. La toma de decisión en el golpe de revés

Pádel, como la vida misma

¿Y si nuestro deporte favorito, el pádel, fuese una metáfora de la vida, una "escuela de vida" en dirección a nuestro " ¿para qué?"? Este libro nace en el momento preciso, en plena crisis mundial de pandemia. El mundo y nosotros nunca volveremos a ser los mismos. Se dice que: "Nacemos dos veces, la primera, …

Mapping Faith

This enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities - and vice versa - through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of 'ministry' and artistic response. The contributors comprise writers, poets and artists from the three largest Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and beyond. They show how issues …

52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem

Modern poetry is often represented as difficult or remote from most people's experience. This is a passionate attempt to introduce and examine all aspects of contemporary poetry and make it a familiar part of our lives.

Sin secretos, Miguel Sciorilli

Aquellos que busquen en estas líneas fórmulas mágicas, dietas misteriosas o planes de entrenamientos infalibles para conseguir que un jugador de pádel se convierta de la noche a la mañana en el número 1 del mundo le aconsejaría que no siga leyendo ni una sola página más de esta obra, ya que en ella no …

Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth

'Making is our defence against the dark...' Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel's powerful new collection on the Middle East traces a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction. An oud, central instrument of Middle Eastern music and ancestor of the western guitar, is made and broken. An ancient synagogue survives attacks …