The biographer of Clarice Lispector and Susan Sontag has spent years following the tracks of Dutch artists, exploring their work, their milieux and their subjects. This is a highly personal account, blended with memoir.

An entertaining whodunnit set in Florence in 1557, with Vasari leading an investigation that involves Pontormo's (vanished) frescoes. Playful and clever, as you would expect from the author of HHhH and 7th Function of Language.

Rosenberg's family emigrated from Sweden to Israel in 1962. This is his memoir of that time, and his subsequent grappling with the hopes, doubts, mythologies, deceptions and erasures that he encountered.

By turns tender and brutal, this is an extraordinary debut, written out of Rice's own experience working in a plastic-moulding factory. The poems follow the twelve hours of a night shift. The ritual of work is no new subject, but plastic presents something original: a poetic vantage on the bleak, chemical air of twenty-first century see more

This uproarious, clever classic (originally published 1958) of a young American woman's sojourn in France, her love affairs on the fringes of Bohemia and the film industry, is largely based on Dundy's own experiences.

A nail-biter set during the Nazi Occupation of Rome in 1944, as activists smuggle refugees and Allied soldiers to safety behind the backs of the Gestapo.

The publisher's blurb informs us that EW is 'at the apex of the gay canon'. What could they mean?

A vivid and moving account of moving from Delhi to a derelict cottage in an old hill station. An accomplished novelist, Roy's text is augmented by her own watercolours.