RO’B, aka The Irish Aesthete, that fount of knowledge, taste and carefully sifted old gossip, has chosen fifteen wildly different houses and interiors for this new book. His emphasis is on... read more
A beautifully produced book on an unusual subject: a single street in Hull... Alec Gill spent 15 years photographing the working-class neighbourhood as its fishing trade dwindled and housing... read more
A very smart piece of book production: off-white, clothbound boards with a thick cellophane dustjacket superimposing a photograph of one of Calder's mobiles onto the cover. Rich, crisp, high... read more
A memoir of perhaps the most astonishing art deal of the 20th century, by the late and charismatic art dealer Oliver Hoare ( 1945-2018).
In July 1994, on the tarmac of Vienna airport, a c... read more
Two men go walking in the Dolomites, but not together; one falls to his death, the other reports the body. Is it coincidence that they knew each other in earlier years, and that one had betr... read more
There truly are many beautiful lines in this novel - a modern comedy of manners against the background of both political and gay life in the 1980's, as recounted by the lodger who stayed to ... read more
A year into university and wrestling with religion, Tóibín discovered Baldwin. These essays on freedom, truth and the hidden are wonderfully perceptive and articulate.
This Slightly Foxed reprint, unavailable since its 1955 publication, is a nurse's memoir of her days working in a clearing hospital in Normandy just after D-Day.
Fuller's 20-year-old son died suddenly in his sleep. In this new volume of memoir, she writes of emotional devastation with courage, even flashes of humour. By the author of Don't Let's Go ... read more
The story of the author's 25-year search for 'Agent Piccadilly' - the man who murdered Georgi Markov with a poisoned umbrella on Westminster Bridge in 1978.
The wounds of repeated leavings and accumulating loss. Sliding between generations, this memoir is an intimate, lyrical and compelling portrait of the lives altered by emigration, exile and ... read more
From the editor of Gunn's Letters comes the first biography of the poet whose complex sexual and cultural life led him to the California hippies and the AIDS crisis.
Follows the author's The Plantaganets and The Hollow Crown. HV's reign encompassed more than just victory at Agincourt - the consolidation of a national psyche (with some help from Shakespea... read more
The daughter of Lord Mountbatten, Lady P was also Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen and married to David Hicks. This is a lavishly illustrated biog by her daughter.