The distinguished historian uses neglected sources to present CdeM as a much-traduced campaigner for the peaceful coexistence of Catholics and Protestants, and as a patroness of the arts.
Recounts the author's quest for Adele Hugo, who followed the object of her (unrequited) love, a British soldier, to the Caribbean, and then returned to live out the rest of her days in a Fre... read more
Acute, sensitive novel about a writer's psychic collapse. (The US edition has a different title - Dartmouth Park, which is far more Jane Austen than the contents.)
Last encountered in his fine book Dostoevsky in Love, this gifted author has an eye for inner conflict. Now he returns to the Christian/Arab complexities of his native Cyprus.
A memoir of her multifarious travels, rich with culinary ideas - Russian railway pies, Sultanahmet in the snow, Polish cloudberries... Eden's latest book is imbued with her knowledge and lov... read more
The title is the nickname of St Cuthbert, a C7th hermit. It begins there and ends in 21st century Co. Durham... An incantatory, feverish and experimental novel with prose that skips, slides ... read more
Contacts and connections as the drivers of cultural change: the West was built on far more than the values of ancient Greece and Rome, as per the Victorian paradigm. Erudite and compelling.
How, whether made on tally sticks or via electronic portal, systems of debt and credit have been a driving force in the development of states from Pisa in the C12th to the Bolshevik Revoluti... read more
The story of the inimitable Maria Callas - conflicted, disappointed, ambitious and supremely gifted - and of her love affair with Aristotle Onassis - by the author of The Fortune Hunter, My ... read more
A man returns to Georgia after two decades in the UK and disappears; first one and then another of his sons sets off to find him, picking up clues scattered like breadcrumbs in a fairy tale.... read more
NT has been studying the Pacific islands for decades... who better to tackle this controversial painter, whose depictions of Polynesia have enchanted and enraged art history for so long?
A novel set in 1846, during the Great Famine in Ireland: a young woman works in the big house and must struggle to help her family. A doomed romance, love and tragedy. For ages 12 and over.