Another little Everyman hardback, just the thing for a pocket... in addition to poems by Alice Oswald, Walt Whitman, Seamus Heaney, Mary Oliver and many anglophone poets, this is a truly int... read more
A brilliant, perky novella about the foibles of Professor Timofey Pnin, an eccentric Russian teacher at a school in New England. 'Pninian' should really be part of our daily vocabulary; it w... read more
Had Mrs Gaskell lived in Japan and a century later, she might have written this intimate portrait of four sisters of good family living in Osaka in somewhat straitened circumstances. Their e... read more