The new kinds of machine-human interaction - AI companions, friends, lovers, parents, spouses - even AI resurrectionists... Disturbing, funny, challenging.
Planes of reality and the supernatural entwine in this ingenious historical fantasy set in the London Blitz, featuring time-travelling fascists, angels and a winning love story. Spufford is ... read more
Two powerful women's lives collide on a bleak farm on the coast of Sweden. This is the first English translation of the celebrated Swedish writer's works.
The excellent biographer of Chanel and Dior looks at how sartorial matters were used to project and protect the House of Windsor. Her cast includes Hardy Amies, Cecil Beaton, Norman Hartnell... read more
This trilogy of plays was never the most popular of Stoppard's works but it was probably the most ambitious. Set among a group of friends who came of age during the repressive era of Tsar Ni... read more
McGahern's last novel is set around a lake in Ireland; little happens beyond the changing of the seasons, work in the fields, quiet meals, conversations. It is a pleasure to spend time with ... read more
By pegging her narrative to White's diary entries of 1781, when White was 60 and still seven years short of publishing The Natural History of Selborne, the miraculously sensitive Uglow rele... read more
We have been fervent advocates of the first two in this series at Sandoe's and we have high expectations for the third - in which Tara meets a man who, like her, has been reliving November 1... read more
It is 1899 and a hack English writer is off for a belated honeymoon with his American heiress... The great Banville follows du Maurier, Mann and Highsmith to Venice for the setting of his ee... read more
Compelled by world events back to poetry after a decade's hiatus, Paulin filters modern crises through the rich idiosyncracies of his Northern Irish vernacular.
Variations on the Czech-French writer's most visited themes: language, exile, translation and Soviet and Western attitudes to Czech culture. A slim re-issue.
His first original screenplay in twenty years, written for his longtime collaborator Nicholas Hytner to direct (History Boys, A Man With a Van). An affecting comedy set in a choral society i... read more
A middle-aged man takes to the road after his children have left home and his wife has had an affair... This wise and surprising book has shades of Elizabeth Strout's Lucy Barton - the same ... read more
Exquisitely wrought lyric poetry. Mlinko writes incisive poetry criticism for the London Review of Books. This is her first collection to be published in the UK.
The giggles of an Oxford undergraduate at a tea party soon become hysterics. She is taken away, admitted to a psychiatric ward, and the stage is set for one of the classics of 1960s fiction:... read more