The joke is always in the telling - and here are six authors whose comic writing is beyond compare. Psmith is pure joy, and we all need to throw the occasional flower-pot while getting on wi... read more
As reviving for the jaded as one of Jeeves's pick-me-ups: Psmith; the dreadful efficient Baxter, secretary-bird to the Earl of Emsworth; Jeeves and Wooster; Uncle Fred and his mischievous be... read more
Ferrara, Rome, Sicily and more: Italian fiction and non-fiction from the mid-late C2oth to the present. Ground-breaking and compulsive, the first novel in Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet stand... read more
One of the great pleasures of reading C19th literature is being able to enter into what Penelope Fitzgerald called 'the imagined past' - imagined by us now and, in some of these novels, by t... read more
Half a dozen of the greatest novels of the last century, each highly original and, once read, never forgotten. Smiley won a Pulitzer for her transposition of King Lear to the American Mid-We... read more
A generous subscription which may include exhibition catalogues, an artist’s biography, books about the art world, or a fine coffee table book; perfect for amateurs of the arts, from Agar,... read more