The story of the author's 25-year search for 'Agent Piccadilly' - the man who murdered Georgi Markov with a poisoned umbrella on Westminster Bridge in 1978.
From the editor of Gunn's Letters comes the first biography of the poet whose complex sexual and cultural life led him to the California hippies and the AIDS crisis.
A biography of the extraordinary Felix Kersten, a Finnish masseur who was co-opted by Himmler as his physician and used his position to save (it is estimated) 100,000 lives.
It is often supposed that Lovelock was a sort of hippie, but he worked for NASA in the 1960s, then MI5 and MI6; then Shell, whom he warned about the danger to the environment of fossil fuels... read more
Who were 'The Flappers'? A generation of women who broke with social conventions; exotic, often despairing, and influential. By the author of the excellent Tales from the Colony Room: Soho's... read more
Gloriously funny memoir by a Minnesotan food writer about moving to an unpretentious village in the Languedoc with his wife and two aghast children. Hoffman has previously won the James Bear... read more