Those who read Clare's Something of His Art, about J S Bach, or The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal (or others) will know that Clare is a writer of exquisite sensibility and nuance. He i... read more
From bronze-age chopsticks, grain stews, the dawn of the dumpling in the C4th, and the astonishing super-abundance of rice feeding a vast population, to modern fast food in the Chinese diasp... read more
Demonstrates how constitutions evolved in tandem with warfare, and how they have functioned to advance empire as well as promote nations, and worked to exclude as well as liberate. LC is a b... read more
Welcome revival by Persephone of a little-known 'sensational novel': a fallen woman attempts to rehabilitate herself, and meets with little sympathy from those around her.
The bickering begins on Christmas morning in this incredibly dysfunctional family. Originally published in 1935 and since described as Jane Austen on drugs.
A re-issue of this strange tragi-comic tale (1954) in which an English village is flooded first by water, then by suicides. All observed by two sisters whose grandmother wields an enormous ... read more
Interwar Cairo was raucous and cosmopolitan, its burgeoning counterculture pioneered by women - singers, dancers and actresses.
Publication of this book has been delayed under May 6th 202... read more
The author, an art dealer, was married to Gregor von Rezzori. Together they made Santa Maddalena, their home near Florence, a retreat for a firmament of stars from Bruce Chatwin on. A fine i... read more
Why bring back predators that were extinct? RD was responsible for re-introducing ospreys, red kites and many others to the UK: he has the experience and is very persuasive.
Twenty years after he cracked a murder case, Detective Rosenburg is approached by Stephanie Mailer, a journalist who is convinced of his mistakes in the original investigation. But before sh... read more
KnD was born in Derry, on the border between the Five Counties and Eire; one parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. This is a remarkable debut that combines memoir, nature writing and th... read more
Adria is perhaps a surprising person to take us back to Flintstone cookery; an interesting exploration of the McLuhanesque relationship between pot and food.
Architect Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo and his 18-year-old assistant Herbert Percy Horne answered Ruskin's call for the regeneration of art and society. This is a handsome book about their work... read more
Another exhilerating Sri Lankan adventure from the author of The Girl Who Stole an Elephant. Packed with shipwrecks, sea-monsters and missing treasure.
Joan Leigh Fermor's biographer turns to Eddy Sackville-West, Desmon Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys and the unusual salon they created at Long Crichel in Dorset, where Nancy Mitford, Benjam... read more
Cambridge, 1912: a twilight bicycle crash entwines Fred, a young Fellow in the all-male college of St Angelicus, with Daisy, harpooned by a good heart and a poor background. Reason collide... read more
A strange and powerful novel of familial love and the boundary between living and dying, blurred by magical realism and vanishings. From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'The Narrow Road t... read more
Explores what happens to places where people no longer live: Chernobyl, swathes of Detroit, Caribbean volcanoes, Scottish mining regions - redemptive, reflective.