A microscopic book - no larger than of a packet of cigarettes. Collects her essays on mass media, popular culture and art into 200 or so tiny pages. Pieces on Francis Bacon, Annie Ernaux, Ki... read more
A dark, funny reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad. Hal is twenty-two, often drunk, drifting between parties, mass and his difficult family, until a shooting accident throws him into the pat... read more
The first print issue of the immensely popular online food magazine. Contributors include Julia Armfield, Jonathan Meades, Eliza Clark, Rebecca May Johnson, Nigel Slater and many others.
Powerful debut novel set in a coastal Irish town, where women must navigate their emotional lives among hard, manipulative men. Fine characterisation and atmosphere.
A memoir of her multifarious travels, rich with culinary ideas - Russian railway pies, Sultanahmet in the snow, Polish cloudberries... Eden's latest book is imbued with her knowledge and lov... read more
From the 50s to the 70s, Tom Wilson produced a dazzling line-up of folk, rock and jazz artists: Sun Ra, Bob Dylan, Nico, John Coltrane, . This is the first book about him. It features essays... read more
The irrepressible Ali Smith takes us to a dystopia in which two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house...
It is nearly thirty years since Aciman's superb memoir of his Alexandrian childhood, Out of Egypt. Since Call Me By Your Name, he has mutated from an academic scholar of Proust into a bestse... 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 gardener's control is illusory, thanks to a myriad other organisms that have their own ideas about how things should be run. Here are Mabey's enchanting and erudite observations on the hor... read more
A lesbian couple - one of whom is an egotistical, bullying narcissist - decide to have children. The novel turns on what happens when the decent one finally determines to leave, taking at le... read more
Electrifying memoir by a former art dealer about his erstwhile friend Inigo Philbrick who, having cut his teeth at White Cube, went on to make millions but came a cropper. He was extradited ... read more
Jefferson won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir of growing up among Chicago's Black elite - what she refers to as 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where resi... read more
An 1890s Western set in Butte., Montana, populated largely by Irish characters. It begins with a marriage but the bride almost immediately falls in love with another man, a poet who carves h... read more
In the third book of this remarkable sequence, the Greeks sail for home after a decade of war, leaving Troy a wasteland, and taking with them the captive Trojan women.
From the earliest printing to C21st zines: a very engaging account. The author is Prof of Eng Lit at Balliol when not noodling about with like-minded eggheads and a Model 4 letter press.