Attractive near-facsimile of a very small sketchbook that Turner used as a young man. It's known as the 'Wilson' as it was marked 'Copies of Wilson' on the cover, after Richard Wilson, the g... read more
An excellent anthology by a baker's dozen of contemporary writers, including Juliet Annan, Daisy Johnson, Laura Freeman as well as established food writers.
This skilful, moving jeu d'esprit could just as well be in the fiction section. It's about both the poet and the author's preoccupation with him, and contains as much fiction as fact. If you... read more
The names have changed and the shamelessness causes the eyes to pop even further, but the threats to the freedoms Vidal loved and fought so hard to defend were already vivid in these excoria... read more
A story about a young woman in New York, newly married and nervous. Offill has mastered the curious genre of autofiction by shattering her books into deliciously pithy paragraphs: overheard ... read more
Comprises excerpts of Rodin's writing on French cathedrals. He believed that cathedrals were visual metaphors for the human figure, and were being ruined by restoration. In the David Zwirne... read more