"In the early 1920s, in the remote village of Ghamsar, Talla and Sardar, two teenagers dreaming of a better life, fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his young bride with him across the mountains to the suburbs of Tehran, where the couple settles down and builds a home. From the outskirts of the capital city, they will watch as the Qajar dynasty falls and Reza Khan rises to power as Reza Shah Pahlavi. Into this family of illiterate shepherds is...

"A prize-winning Belgian poet explores the nature of creative endeavor-the godlike ambition, the crushing defeat of failure-through the stories of thirteen tragic architects. In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architects-architects who either killed themselves or are rumored to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire in seventeenth-century...

A "seamless blend of classical and contemporary piano repertoire carefully curated to provide continuous and calm listening as you journey through the four times of day: morning, afternoon, evening and night... dissolving genres the music moves seamlessly from Albéniz via Yiruma to Benny Andersson, and back out through Chopin, Beethoven and Brahms to Secret Garden and Luke Howard... artists featured includes Martha Argerich, Alfred Brendel, Katia...