A brilliant graphic reimagining of a C19th Russian crime novel with a woman journalist-thief-liar-magician as its sleuth. The author is an accomplished academic and illustrator.
Witty, tangential, self-deprecating, Amis's autobiography is not a chronological procession of memories but a frenzy of footnotes, asides, literary zigzags through time and space. It's funny... read more
A sweeping and original history of the connections between espionage and show business, co-written by CA, the authorised historian of MI5, and Green, an historian and theatre producer.
A stellar second collection: each character and action is precisely observed, each story is shot with humour and pathos. Humane and wistful, these stories - mostly set in Ireland, in County ... read more
Young Skins and Homesickness, his collections of short stories, were brilliantly successful. Set over a weekend in County Mayo among a group of young, this is his first novel.
A cerebral and determined young woman at Harvard vigorously explores the gaps between life and art: an entertaining and lively sequel to Batuman's wonderful The Idiot.
A lost roman-à-clef from the great French writer about a passionate and involved female friendship. Encompassing art, politics and love, this is its first publication in English.
The rise of Suleyman the Magnificent is told with a clever balance of the close (viziers, lovers, military commanders) and the distant (Venice, popes, emperors, Christendom and its interneci... read more
An ex-government scientist buys a ruined farmhouse in Cornwall, where he befriends intriguing local characters and learns new ways of living in the modern world.
The range of Blackburn's books testifies to her profound curiosity about the world. This account of her journey (imaginative as well as physical) among the little-known South African people ... read more