A caravan of vegetable dishes, mostly small and perfectly formed, from the head chef of the eponymous Bristol restaurant who won a Michelin star aged 21.
A Japanese girl stays with her lover's family in Norfolk but the resurfacing of a violent trauma interrupts her stay. Haunting, atmospheric prose from the author of 'Land of the Living'.
A deep dive into the mythologies and economies of the chasm. Not just about giant squid, but humanity's harvesting of the depths for medical and financial benefits.
Three friends move between London, Cap d'Antibes and a re-wilded corner of Sussex. This new departure explores determinism, freedom and the stories we tell to survive.
SM's first novel, published here for the first time, takes place in a school for girls - a microcosm that foreshadows the Rwandan genocide fifteen years later. The author's light touch is an... read more
The beautiful open landscape of the Gironde estuary and two vineyards - Château Rauzan-Ségla (Margaux) and Chateau Canon (St Emilion) - are the subject of this lavish book. Patrick Messina... read more
The Booker-shortlisted author turns to contemporary Soho and the fall-out from property redevelopment. With a genius cast of characters, a pub called the Aphra Behn and very funny in the mid... read more
Born in Gravesend in 1929, he died in 2004 in California, where he lived for most of his adult life. This collection presents the private life and reflections of the poet for the first time.
Foraged cocktails - rummage in the back of your cupboard, select a suitably dusty bottle, add dandelions - beautifully shredded of course - a nip of horseradish and garnish with some zesty l... read more
'Orientalism', the Barenboim-Said Foundation, the East-West Divan orchestra, 20 honorary degrees, umpteen prizes: there is much to say about this clever, cultivated, humane man.
A beguiling, masterful novel in which village's dead recount the defining moments or aspects of their lives. By the author of 'A Whole Life' and 'The Tobacconist'.
The sparrow-sized sandpiper flies uninterrupted from Canada to Venezuela, equivalent to running 126 marathons back-to-back, without food, water, or rest. It stays hydrated by sipping moistur... 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
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
A delicious anthology of ambling, strolling, pausing, looking, thinking... A feast that combines Joseph Roth and Rebecca Solnit, George Sand and Werner Herzog, Joseph Conrad and Kate Humble,... read more
From a small boy growing up in a Tibetan village to the spiritual leader of the Buddhist world, the Dalai Lama proves that kindness and understanding are not only at the roots of peacefulnes... read more
The Jewish residents of a Manhattan retirement home put on a frenzied production of Hamlet. Published to critical acclaim in 1994, Isler's tale of geriatric theatrics probes, with steady, da... 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
In this inspired recreation of her parents' hopes and lives, MW has created a vivid memoir of post-war childhood and adventure in Cairo, Italy and London.
As a young man in Germany, AW's grandfather published Kafka and several other depraved authors whose work the Nazis were keen to burn. He fled in 1933, eventually settling in New York where ... read more