Sprightly espionage treat: disgraced former MI6 operative is brought in to track Agent Dante, a mole in the highest echelons of her organisation with access to the PM.
The embodiment of mens sana in corpore sano rowed across the Channel, swam the Niagara basin twice and became an MP. He and his wife were intimate with the 'Souls'.
Abdurraqib's meditation on Black music and performance, A Little Devil in America, was inspired. This new book, a literary memoir about basketball and what it takes to be successful, what it... read more
Kurlansky is a serial obsessionist and always intriguing. Here he betakes himself to the river bank and the slippery struggle between fish and fisherman. (The fish tends to win.)