The author and her brother spent a decade at sea; at sixteen she made it ashore in New Zealand, effectively abandoned by her parents. A startling and riveting memoir.
The philosophical innovations of Sappho, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Xenophanes, Homer and others. The first time since The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters that this excellent writer has turned t... read more
An affecting memoir of the author's sister and half-sister, one of who whom was consumed by addiction, leaving the others to wrestle with grief and guilt.
The discovery of a corpse sends Cat Hakesby and James Marwood on a dangerous path that seems to lead to Charles II's favourite courtier... The sixth in this excellent series of historical th... read more
The author must presumably be glad to have used an alias on reading Dominic Sandbrook's review in the Sunday Times. An interminable, banal and exploitative account of her two-year affair.
A first collection of essays and journalism from the novelist best known for We Need to Talk About Kevin. Free speech, identity politics and intellectual imprisonment are all grist to Shrive... read more
The late lamented drummer of the Rolling Stones, who died just over a year ago. He was also a jazz fiend, playing and recording with several other musicians. His deadpan demeanour set off hi... read more
The Pulitzer-winning novelist is unflinching in her account of mankind's destruction of the environment for commercial gain - from the C16th English fenlands to Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire ... read more
Tangled, mossy, temperate rainforest still prevails in some valleys and creases of these isles - though it seems hard to imagine after these months of drought... And the author's name is of ... read more
The man behind Soho's Quo Vadis is Jeremy Lee and here is his long-awaited cookbook... filled with characteristic and contagious ebullience, heavenly writing, darts of wit and delicious reci... read more
A brilliant narrative of the interconnected lives of two Renaissance Portuguese men whose travels to India and China unseated contemporary certainties. Dazzling.