Four generations, from Ukrainian shtetls via the Holocaust to influence in Washington DC. The author is the mother of Jonathan S F, whose first novel 'Everything Is Illuminated' (2002) also ... 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
Entertaining and intriguing - if the dear reader can be persuaded to overlook the fatuous and needy title and its horrid, self-promoting exclamation mark.
A few strange hours in the troubled life of a teenage boy: another short, mysterious novel from the author of Lanny and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
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