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.
Much-anticipated new collection about, according to Her Greatness, 'different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow... forensics, encounters with lovers, the word "idea", th... read more
Hewitt is a skilled writer of the interior self; his memoir - All Down Darkness Wide - recalled an uneasy romance with a young Swedish man. This second poetry collection is a similar mixture... read more
The great novelist returns to poetry - where his career began - to consider migration, borders and displacement, from his childhood in Sri Lanka to Canadian rivers and Bulgarian Orthodox chu... read more
Like a detective novel of the time, the story of two booksellers who uncovered the forgeries of a pompous bastion of the literary scene in 1930s' London.
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.
Fleming's own ideal of the 'complete man' is the source for the subtitle. NS has left no stone unturned in pursuit of a 'complete' portrait in writing this immense and engaging biography.
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 title novella concerns a relationship between an ageing Polish pianist and a stylish patroness in Barcelona. This is the twice Booker-winner's first fiction in seven years.
A mother and her daughter navigate their betrayal by a ruthlessly self-regarding poet. Enright is superb at unpicking complex relationships and laying out their strands: we watch, spellbound... read more
As six astronauts orbit the earth in a space station, collecting scientific data, their attention is tugged t by distant human events and relationships. Beautifully written, this is an affec... read more
These spirits and their bizarre manifestations are not taken straight from the Japanese but rather from the English collections of the Meiji and Taisho eras, including those of Lafcadio Hear... read more
Several of the principal compilers of the OED have already been sung - not least the editor James Murray, who took over two decades to reach the letter 'T'. It is his newly-discovered addres... read more
A joyous and detailed biography of this extraordinary man, whose house in Cambridge is still a sanctuary for the artistically-inclined. His circle included Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Henry... read more
A moving and thought-provoking exploration of Dutch art and the impact that painting can have on life - and life on painting. Fabritius, blown up in Delft in 1654 after painting The Goldfinc... read more
This glorious tapestry of a novel returns to Taylor's accustomed stomping ground - the university campus - with whisper-close third-person narration and minute observation worthy of his reve... read more
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 lively account of the origins of the American Dream - an idea which Moore traces back across the Atlantic to the intellectual and political bustling of Enlightenment Britain.