The subtle and growing bonds between two couples in occupied Turin: this is a classic of wartime Italian fiction, translated now into English for the first time. Bassani called it "successfu... read more
Rilke's 'Gedichte an die Nacht', collected here for the first time in English, began life as a handwritten notebook which he gave to a friend in 1916. A small and perfectly formed Pushkin Pr... read more
A gloriously comic short novel from 1975, in which a journalist saves a hare and walks away from a wearisome life into a series of adventures with the hare as companion. Like our protagonist... read more
A fascinating group portrait of the journalists (including Rebecca West, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn, Erika Mann and Janet Flanner) who were gathered at Nuremberg - how they behaved wit... read more