A dark, funny reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad. Hal is twenty-two, often drunk, drifting between parties, mass and his difficult family, until a shooting accident throws him into the pat... read more
The fabulous singer who spied for the French Resistance, adopted twelve children, marched with Martin Luther King, was awarded the Croix de Guerre and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'h... read more
The second part of de Bellaigue's enthralling trilogy about Suleyman the Magnificent, following on from The Lion House which covered his rise. Here he is at his zenith, and considering his ... read more
Reimagines Moby Dick from a female perspective. The heroine, born on the Kent coast in 1843, disguises herself as a cabin boy on a ship to NY and then joins a whaler...
This new novel from the author of All That Man Is looks at the life of a Hungarian lad on the receiving end of life - which includes quite a lot of sex and violence - as he grows up, leaves ... read more
An entertaining whodunnit set in Florence in 1557, with Vasari leading an investigation that involves Pontormo's (vanished) frescoes. Playful and clever, as you would expect from the author... read more
A nail-biter set during the Nazi Occupation of Rome in 1944, as activists smuggle refugees and Allied soldiers to safety behind the backs of the Gestapo.
This Carrolian pursuit of realms beyond the modern borders - lost utopias, Amazonian city-states, alternative narratives - is as much an intellectual journey as it is physical.
An immense, learned and witty sweep of literature by the editorial director of New York Review Books and the founder of the NYRB Classics series. Frank is terrific company through the centur... read more
From the emergence of tyranny to the malaise of ennui, LS surveys how Hannah Arendt's life and work can help us confront the perils of contemporary post-truth politics.
An essay on the Palestinian struggle for freedom born out of her Edward W. Said lecture, delivered at Columbia University nine days before October 7 2023.
Memoir and reportage by the outstanding foreign correspondent (who has covered conflict in Ukraine, Mali, Syria, Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda, Israel/Palestine), and an anthology of poems that spe... read more
What is freedom and how do we achieve it? The acclaimed historian of the C20th travels The Road to Unfreedom in reverse: freedom understood as the freedom to do and to be, rather than freedo... read more
Two sisters meet a couple of wordly young men at a student party in post-War Bristol and accept their invitation a few days later, with startling consequences: a novella by a subtle writer.
Billed as a prequel to his bestselling The Long Weekend, this is an authoritative romp to the tune of Coward's 'The Stately Homes of England' - their fabric and (some of) what went on in the... read more