Brought up in Germany as a good National Socialist, KF was repatriated with her half-English mother to England. A poignant account of the C20th political buffetings navigated by three genera... read more
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.
A traditional rock climber for a decade or more, Fleming describes the dance between the self and the rock and its electrifying charge. It's also, for her, the ultimate way to connect with n... read more
A portrait of the scandalous Oxford club, of which EW was briefly secretary, and looks at the lives of several of his contemporaries too. Seven of them found their way into Brideshead... The... 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