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