In the early 20th century an easily overlooked square in Bloomsbury was the home, at one time or another, of the modernist poet H.D., Dorothy L Sayers, the classicist Jane Harrison, the hist... read more
Post-war France through the despatches of Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A J Liebling and others. This collection is the source for Wes Anderson's forthcoming film, 'The French Dispatch', and... read more
A timely celebration of a class of beings so often derided or subjected to appalling mass murder, and upon whom we depend for our survival as a species. Mary Oliver, Alice Oswald, Donne, Mar... read more
Sappho, Baudelaire, Donne, Auden, Herbert, Zagajewski and many others on recovery from ills of the body, the mind and the spirit. Another attractive pocket-sized volume in the Everyman poetr... read more
A clever and playful reworking of Wagner's 'Ring' that brings in the financial crisis of 2008; originally conceived as a libretto for the Berlin Opera.
Boyle's wonders are unceasing. A novelist who has published under at least three names, and whose own publishing venture (CB Editions) has published Will Eaves, Ananda Devi, Agota Kristof an... read more
A creepy whodunnit set in Victorian Bath, in which a silhouette artist enlists the help of a child spirit medium to investigate the murders of her clients.
Sebald, an empty street in Italy, Cavafy, St Petersburg, Alexandria, Eric Rohmer, Proust and Pessoa: Aciman's essays roam through time, imagination, place and memory.
Clever, wry debut in which a young woman gets through one single day; her work interrupted by quotidian jangles, her interior self navigating a recent traumatic experience. Witty and clever ... read more
Sands, the overloaded former editor of the Today programme, visited ten monasteries around the world hoping to understand what they have in common and how monastic life might help her in her... read more
Photographs by Christopher Lloyd of his own garden, juxtaposed with contemporary images. Introduction and notes by his former head gardener and current head of the Great Dixter Charitable Tr... read more
A collection of canine poems... This genre in any medium gives us the shivers, but Oliver is such an outstandingly wonderful poet that we are going to risk it...