A reissue of one of Gallant's two novels: a mother and daughter wander from Venice to Cannes to Paris. Superficially glamorous, their lives are in fact constricted, their physical displaceme... read more
This powerful story is set in 1851 in the Arctic: a Lutheran minister's Sami convert has a son who inconveniently has a love affair with the minister's daughter.
A woman approaches a girl on a park bench in Mexico, saying that she recognises her: what follows leads movingly into the girl's relationship with her mother...Desai has been shortlisted for... read more
Chekhov's biographer and the premier translator from Georgian has been working on this for years (in between publishing projects). Its publication is a triumph.
Blaschka père et fils were from Bohemia but moved to Dresden, where they worked in glass from the mid-1800s to the 1930s, making intricate models of sea anemones, medusas, corals and starfi... read more
As six astronauts orbit the earth in a space station, collecting scientific data, their attention is tugged t by distant human events and relationships. Beautifully written, this is an affec... read more
Following Cromwell's death, there were 10 changes of government in 2 years. Reece argues that there was still no great support for a return to the monarchy and yet, despite strong military b... read more
The autodidact cultural critic has written an exhilarating and evocative memoir of his youth, the unstable fortunes of his family, and the diverse artistic tribes of NY before the catastroph... read more
The Austrian artist's late-C18th journey to Italy and the Levant resulted in his superb Flora Graeca; at the same time he made exquisite bird paintings, published here for the first time.
Travel memories - some imagined, such as a performance of 'Hamlet' off the African coast, in 1607 - from the amiable author of A Pike in the Basement: Tales of a Hungry Traveller.
The democratic experiment of 1918-1933, from defeat in WW1 to the rise of the Nazis. Jähner's description of living through this chaotic period is almost as thrilling as Hitchcock.