{"product_id":"9781406398694","title":"The House by the Lake: The Story of a Home and a Hundred Years of History (Walker Studio)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The incredible story of how a house was witness to German history\" Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A touching picturebook which shows children that large events can have repercussions even in small and unheralded places\" Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding's Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the outskirts of Berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a century, this little house played host to a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugees and a Stasi informant; in that time, a world war came and went, and the Berlin Wall was built a stone's throw from the cottage's back door. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Harding first shared this remarkable story in his Costa-shortlisted biography The House by the Lake - now he has rendered it into a deeply moving picture-book for young readers. With words that read like a haunting fairy-tale, and magnificent artwork by Britta Teckentrup, this is the astonishing true story of the house by the lake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"An atmospheric and ultimately uplifting tale with delicate, ethereal images\" The Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR THE ORIGINAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Radio 4 Book of the Week\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by: \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Times \u0026gt;\u0026gt; New Statesman \u0026gt;\u0026gt; Daily Express \u0026gt;\u0026gt; Commonweal magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the Orwell Prize 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver 50 five-star reviews on Amazon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A passionate memoir.\" - Neil MacGregor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families. A remarkable book.\" - Tom Holland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A book that will stay with me for a very long time.\" - Rachel Joyce\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A superb work of social history.\" - The Sunday Times \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Diamond brilliant ... an extraordinary book.\" - Sunday Express\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A deft history of a cabin containing many secrets.\" - Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating window on a tumultuous period\" - Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Original, personal, moving and uplifting\" - Literary Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a history that is often poignant, sometimes heartening, and never other than intimate.\" - Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinary book.... Harding has extracted the past from the dust that collects between floorboards and from layers of peeling wallpaper.\" - Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSEE ALSO THOMAS HARDING'S NEW BIOGRAPHY, LEGACY:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I was riveted: this is a fascinating social history.\" - Nigella Lawson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Written with love and imagination ... a masterclass in historical empathy.\" - TLS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Nobody quite stirs the soup of historical detail like Harding.\" - Express\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walker Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48234357555435,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":21.75,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781406398694-1.jpg?v=1781677518","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781406398694","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}