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
Kassabova's portrait of the once-nomadic shepherding life high in the Pirin Mountains of Bulgaria is powerful and moving: 'I am the last hole on the flute', she records one of the shepherds ... 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 wonderful book about the impressions of Paradise Lost on writers, politicians and readers in the centuries since its publication, from Malcolm X to Virginia Woolf, to incarcerated students... 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
Returning to her native Bulgaria, the acclaimed writer explores the valley of the Mesta and encounters its inhabitants and their traditions of plant-lore. Her previous books have been outsta... read more
A love hotel on Japan's Inland Sea, H.G. Wells, Rebecca West, 1930s' physics: a mesmerising memoir of his parents by the author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
From the earliest printing to C21st zines: a very engaging account. The author is Prof of Eng Lit at Balliol when not noodling about with like-minded eggheads and a Model 4 letter press.
Harvey’s previous novel before her radiant Booker-winning Orbital was this dazzlingly skilful mystery set in a medieval village, in which the priest is obliged by the sinister visiting rur... read more
Two childhood friends meet again as adults, one by now a mathematician, the other a computer scientist. Picking up where they left off in childhood, they agree to work together - and do so f... read more
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.
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.
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
After Possession, the much-missed ASB turned her steely gaze on the later Victorians. Rummaging through biographies of E. Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, J.M. Barrie and Alison Uttley, she introduc... read more