In this new book Sinclair has abandoned London for Peru, in an attempt to understand his great-grandfather’s colonial career. The narrative Sinclair grew up with ends up as self-serving flotsam, washed up on waves of exploitation, greed, institutional collusion and brutality. Sinclair’s approach is brilliantly his own, his language ditto
The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers
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AZ conjures lives, relationships, families, political upheavals in just a few paragraphs. This clever, tranquil novella begins with a professor telling his stepdaughter a bedtime story about... read more
The Private Lives of Trees
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A collection of essays about this most extraordinary C17th woman, artist, traveller and naturalist; looks at her methods and materials, her journey to Suriname, her entomological studies, he... read more
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A 1992 version of this superb C19th Brazilian domestic drama got into the Evening Standard bestseller list thanks to Sandoe's...
Dom Casmurro: A Novel
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In 1864 the Austrian Archduke Maximilian went to assume a distant throne. The operatic episode ended in his death by firing squad, famously memorialised by Manet.