An A-Z of horrors, compulsions and pleasures. We hope it includes galanthomania, in honour of a customer on whom we dote, who only travels in pursuit of snowdrops.
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
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
She arrived in America in 1807 as a refugee from Napoleonic France. Her sketches of the world she encountered there must show what Madame de la Tour du Pin a decade earlier. A lovely book.