The author of Square Haunting tackles another giant of modernism - the sibyl of Montparnasse, l'ogresse de la rue du Fleurus - with intelligence, wit and access to new material.
Summer in New York: our two protagonists catch one another's fancy while they wait to be selected as jurors. Another novella by the author of Call Me By Your Name and many others.
The first in a sequence of novels. The premise is temporal confinement to a single day: the narrator finds that time has stopped moving forward and begins to navigate the whorls of possibili... read more
A dizzying tale of social collapse, generational impasse and mid-life crisis; a Bonfire of the Vanities set in London. Brilliantly observed, lean, slick, clever and gripping.
Shows how the six women most associated with Picasso were far from passive or submissive 'muses' but were highly independent and talented in their own right.
A deliciously nasty buffet of genre-inflected stories spanning horror, sci-fi, fable and even a surreal series of restaurant reviews. Lurking in each is that ravening, animal craving for foo... read more
Published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the great impresario's birth. The names of those he worked with, those great and fabulous beings like Goncharova, Stravinsky, Picasso, Fokine,... read more
It is nearly thirty years since Aciman's superb memoir of his Alexandrian childhood, Out of Egypt. Since Call Me By Your Name, he has mutated from an academic scholar of Proust into a bestse... read more
Laconic and tragi-comic novella about quiet uproar, gentle mayhem and opportunistic insurrection in an old people's home during the pandemic. By a National Treasure.
Pamuk has kept a diary for over a decade, noting down thoughts, experiences, events, dialogues with his characters - and all illustrated with his own drawings.
Du Maurier's sloe gin, Ginsberg's borscht, Orwell's plum cake = purple recipes, if not prose. Recipes by many others, including Isherwood, Kerouac and Didion, introduced by Queen Bee. Intrig... read more
A languorous pub crawl, illustrated by the inimitable Ardizzone, first published in 1949. Chapters include 'The Regulars', 'The Jug-and-Bottle Bar', 'Barmaids Old and New', 'After Hours'. Wi... read more
One of the most magical books ever written for children, in which a solitary boy arrives at his grandmother's ancient house and encounters ghostly traces of its former inhabitants. 70th anni... read more