Meticulously researched and carefully told, this is the story of how a city of 200,000 Jews in 1938 had fewer than 10,000 in 1946. From the author of the excellent Former People: The Destruc... read more
Berlin in the 1930s: a lesbian love affair; jubilation and despair; a touch of Cabaret, a dollop of Goodbye to Berlin. A first novel from this art historian.
Two men - father and son - look on as their Pyrenean fastness is on the cusp of connection with the wider world and see how their lives will change for weal or woe.
The first new Gruffalo book in twenty years: Granny is coming to stay in the deep dark wood, with her grey fur and red (varnished?) claws. Moreover, she has a super-power: she can read and w... read more
A young art student's return to the island of Harris and his crofting parents is the framework for a masterclass in repressed emotion and the weight of expectation. By the author of Shuggie ... read more
This is the blistering account of what it was like to work for Mark Zuckerberg, by a former employee. Funnily enough, the self-styled champion of free speech tried to ban it.
Dizzying encounters and immense historical arcs: a hugely entertaining look (often from a bicycle) at our peculiar, scattered island nations, by the author of The Discovery of France.
From the author of Lost Paradise: the Story of Granada, an excellent history from Mecca to Cordoba that takes in Islamic libraries in Spain and Ottoman coffee houses in London.
A memoir by the inventor of the internet - a man who gave it away to all of us for free and will no doubt be canonised one day, if we survive as a species.
Longing and absence inflect this novella about a mother who abandons her Pyrenean family. This first appeared in Toibin's collection Mother and Sons (2006).
Detective Jimmy Perez is drawn deep into an insular and secretive community in Orkney after his childhood friend is murdered with a rune-inscribed Neolithic stone. (Somewhere, some nut must ... read more