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
The author is Anatoly Kuznetsov, who grew up in Kiev. He documented as a boy the appalling massacre of Jews, Ukrainians and Russians by Nazi forces in 1941. First published in Russian (in a ... read more