A Life's Work David Sedaris journalist and historian Geert Mak

journalist and historian Geert Mak criss-crossed the continent in the simple yet monumental quest to trace European twentieth-century history as the world slipped into the twenty-first

but never imitated

utterly absorbing

and they had an unprecedented global impact

Finding bullet-ridden bodies

A Life's Work David Sedaris journalist and historian Geert MakA Lifes Work is Rachel Cusks funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. An education in babies, books, breast feeding, toddler groups, broken nights, bad advice and never being alone, it is a landmark work, which has provoked acclaim and outrage in equal measure. An incitement to riot . . . Its an extraordinary piece of work and the writing is utterly beautiful . . . I laughed out loud, often, in painful