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.
The idea that our ancestors turned from the hunted to the hunter; Calasso dazzles as ever; a rich evocation of the relationship of humans on the cusp of being and animals that were also bein... read more
A set of all four cards: Poetry, Gardens, Out of Print and Natural History. Cards blank inside; designs by James Campbell.
(If you wish for the set to be all the same, please ad... read more
The author is Anatoly Kuznetsov, who grew up in Kiev. He documented as a boy the appalling massacre of Jews, Ukrainians and Russians by Nazi forces in 1941. First published in Russian (in a ... read more
An American voice on the environmental disaster of post-war industrial agriculture, and the positive signs of recovery from poly-cultural farms and permaculture embraced by a new generation ... 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
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
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