A love hotel on Japan's Inland Sea, H.G. Wells, Rebecca West, 1930s' physics: a mesmerising memoir of his parents by the author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Duff and Diana Cooper, Philip Sassoon, Henry 'Chips' Channon, Cecil Beaton, Maud Russell and the Mountbattens were amongst his patrons, for whom RW created everything from delightful book pl... read more
Breaking free of conformity, a woman leaves her husband, flat and career for a new, queer life: first part of an autofictional trilogy; the prequel in fact to last year's Love Me Tender.
Roads not taken, not thought about for twenty years, until bad news turns the protagonist's head for her Irish home. The humane and introspective sequel to Brooklyn.
A very handsome, large-format limited edition book of the lost photographs of Patrick O'Higgins, best known for Madame, his memoir about Helena Rubinstein. His photographs are a fascinating... read more
A mother and her daughter navigate their betrayal by a ruthlessly self-regarding poet. Enright is superb at unpicking complex relationships and laying out their strands: we watch, spellbound... read more
A Japanese man tries to form a relationship with his half-French child, who has grown up on the other side of the world. The other side of the story told in A Single Rose, this nevertheless ... read more
A deliciously-written debut novel, in which a harried civil servant is assigned to help a Victorian time-traveller adjust to the C21st. By turns a romance, a thriller and an acid critique of... read more
The only woman to reach London from Warsaw during WW2, she was later parachuted back into Poland where she was deeply involved in the Uprising; she then disappeared into the Soviet prison sy... read more
A lavish book on this Georgian artist who lived c.1866-1918 and influenced Georgian and Russian avant-gardists and Modernists. Large format, many illustrations.