Febrile spinsters, church politics and bachelors set in their ways; a comedy of manners with a great deal of longing and soul. This, and indeed all Pym's books, are extraordinary tonic in th... read more
Ice-cool essays pairing famous women - Winehouse and Holiday; Crawford and Fonda et al - that picks up the echoes between their life and image. Snow is very good on fame, greed, desire and ... read more
A reissued novel with the atmosphere of a murder mystery about an alcoholic, misogynistic historian. As usual, Blackwood's writing bristles with intelligence and unease.
A green macaw who likes murmuring to itself is one of a trio of characters caught up together in the pandemic; the others are a middle-aged professor and a young drop-out. A novel of unlikel... read more
RW's first novel was published during WWI, in 1918. A soldier returns from the trenches to his country estate, to his wife Kitty and cousin Jenny. Shell-shocked, he can only remember his lif... read more
Most of us are acquainted with the author through her wonderful re-tellings of the classical myths, but here, newly re-issued, is her (at the time, controversial) 1953 novel, a frank portray... read more
GJ's first novel in over two decades is set in C17th colonial Brazil and its last fugitive-slave settlement. She burst onto the literary scene in 1975 with the publication of Corregidora, a... read more
Connecting with her sequence 'Gilead', 'Home' and 'Lila', this new novel concerns the family's errant son Jack, the intelligent, drunk, courteous, poetry-loving, foolish ne'er-do-well. Aspir... read more
Connecting with her sequence 'Gilead', 'Home' and 'Lila', this new novel concerns the family's errant son Jack, the intelligent, drunk, courteous, poetry-loving, foolish ne'er-do-well. Aspir... read more
Few seasoned visitors to Sandoe's will have escaped without copies of 'The Transit of Venus', 'The Bay of Noon' or 'The Great Fire'. Hazzard is one of our favourites here, and publication of... read more