A biography of the city founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, once the largest city in the world and for a thousand years the capital of Egypt. Looks at the modern period too.
The author went to Venice in 1957, aged 25, to have fun for a season among the rich and glam. Written with 67 years' hindsight, this memoir is a vivid evocation of a vanished era.
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.
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
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.
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