Corberó (1935-2017) was a Catalan sculptor known for his monumental works for public spaces. For nearly fifty years he also constructed an extraordinary modernist labyrinth of buildings on ... read more
A memoir of life as a small girl in Rabindranath Tagore's famous cultural community in the 1930s, by one of India's foremost literary figures. Translated from the Bengali. (Originally due fo... read more
Often hilarious and certainly astonishing, this is the novelist's memoir of growing up in Sheffield in the 1950s. His father, an insecure bully, adopted a toup?e, which functioned as an inst... read more
This eloquent little book offers a moving and erudite justification for the survival of high quality book shops and why they are essential places of discovery, refuge and fulfilment. Laced w... read more
With considerable humility, this book is subtitled In Which Four Russians Give a Masterclass on Writing, Reading and Life. Actually it's the brilliant Saunders' own work, distilled from deca... read more
The remarkable story of the author's Jewish grandmother, whose bestselling Viennese cookbook was expropriated by the Nazis after the Anschluss in 1938 and republished for decades under a fal... read more
A vivid novel about Edith Somerville, co-author of the Irish R.M., set against the backdrop of burnings, politics and lawlessness of Ireland in the early 1920s.
Shortlisted for both the Women's Fiction Prize (2022) and the Booker (2021), this stirring novel pulls together the lives of a fictional female aviator in the 1950s aiming to circumnavigate ... read more
A collection of essays by the late traveller and acute observer of nature: "The central project of my adult life as a writer is to know and love what we have been given, and to urge others t... read more
The ideal present for those who have the good fortune to be married to the rare type of tropical bird described above... Large format and beautifully designed with lots of lovely photographs... read more
Based on a single private collection, this is the most comprehensive book there has been on the subject. Wonderful pictures, and a valuable reference work.
New edition of a remarkable memoir by an Italian-born American, first published in 1954, which describes how it was to live in Nazi-occupied Budapest in 1943-45.
An anthology of the writings by the often overlooked women of the Raj, many of whom flourished in India - Fanny Parks, Emily Eden et alia. A fascinating counterpoint to the stereotypical vie... read more
An unusual study of ten houses that were burnt down in Ireland during the 1920s, and how it was for their owners and families, some of whom believed themselves to be integrated members of th... read more
A sumptuous reprint of d'Hancarville's catalogue of Hamilton's Greek vases, with its fabulous hand-coloured engraved plates splendidly reproduced. First published in Naples in the 1760s, the... read more
From the Alps to the Adriatic, through Ferrara, Mantova, Parma, Cremona, Pavia and Turin. Those who read Helena Attlee's recent Lev's Violin will know something of its historical use, but no... read more
A haunting glimpse of the officers and sailors of the Erebus and the Terror on their ill-fated expedition, and of the hopes and fears of their colleagues and families when the Erebus softly ... read more
In the period 1917-1921, between 100,000 and 250,000 Jews were murdered across Ukraine. Brahin, a genealogist, traces her grandmother's family history through multiple sources.
The witness to her friend's murder begins to question what she saw, or what it meant... and realises that if she helped put an innocent stranger behind bars, then the killer is one of her fr... read more