This fine debut turns about Margot, the natural child of a prominent French politician: adolescence, with all its tender spots and short focus, resentful, impressionable, knowing-it-all but ... read more
Published last year in the US, this account of the rich in mid-C20th New York, and Capote's multiple betrayals of friendships, is both fascinating and shocking.
The third outing for Persis Wadia in the 'Malabar House' series, in post-independence Bombay: an unknown European has been found frozen in Dehra Dun, and there are new murders on his doorste... read more
The indefatigable author of 'Schindler's Ark' picks up here on the story of Dickens's youngest son, who emigrated to Australia to become a sheep farmer.