AZ conjures lives, relationships, families, political upheavals in just a few paragraphs. This clever, tranquil novella begins with a professor telling his stepdaughter a bedtime story about... read more
Witty, romantic, light but undeniably literary... the great Chilean novelist has done it again. There are echoes of Auster in his writing: a relish for books about books, stories within stor... read more
Reflections on fatherhood and the magical way that bringing up children alters our experience of time and erodes self-absorption. This work floats in a gentle ecstasy above the Fitzcarraldon... read more
Essays on art and artists (Michelangelo, Durer, Piranesi...) from the great author of Memoirs of Hadrian. Part of Zwirner's chic little Ekphrasis series.
A shard of crockery found in the garden of a family home in the Netherlands sets off a series of quiet, intense revelations in this novel about memory, desire, belonging and the idea of home... read more
A man and a child take refuge in an abandoned mine, only to discover that they are not alone... Dystopian brilliance from the author of Dirt Music, Cloudstreet and others.
This love story tacks between an English boarding school and the Western Front. A moving historical debut; compelling and unexpectedly funny (for the Somme).
When the author's mother dies, leaving a strangely symbolic collection of everyday objects behind her, Wicha begins to sort through the belongings and constructs a minute, material history b... 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
These small utopias were described by one interviewee - a gardener with an impressively Eeyore-like dispostiion - as '51 per cent hard work, and 49 per cent disappointment'. They've never be... read more
A collection of diary entries, essays and reflections from the American poet and scholar. Wang is one of the foremost writers on race, prisons and political surveillance. These writings - br... read more
A delightful catalogue to the recent exhibition held in Brecon, which looked at the two years Jones spent in in a small village in the Black Mountains in the mid-1920s, recovering (somewhat)... read more
A dictionary like no other - exuberant yet precise, Lexicon Of Affinities is both a portrayal of Vitale's remarkable 20th century and an insight into the idiosyncrasies of human experience.
An essay of feminist prehistory that describes how baskets, nets and bags predated less domestic, more violent tools. With an introduction by Donna Haraway and abstract, spidery drawings by ... read more