Adria is perhaps a surprising person to take us back to Flintstone cookery; an interesting exploration of the McLuhanesque relationship between pot and food.
MH has spent the last twelve years designing and tending a beautiful 12-acre garden - not his own, but the property of an elderly widow. More rough greenman than elegant plantsman, his accou... read more
Explores what happens to places where people no longer live: Chernobyl, swathes of Detroit, Caribbean volcanoes, Scottish mining regions - redemptive, reflective.
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.
An elderly woman in a home is losing her power of speech: a therapist delicately helps her to unburden herself of a secret... The dark horse of new French fiction.
The title is part of her 1947 New Year's Eve toast. Openly gay, Highsmith was famously beastly to lovers and friends. This new biography traces connections between her complex character and ... read more
SM's parents were German Jewish refugees; he was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. His maternal aunts concealed their origins too and had very diffe... 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.
A panoramic account by the distinguished Harvard historian of five generations of a French provincial family originally from Angouleme, crammed with stories and archival research. ER has a d... 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
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
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
Cambridge University curators explore touch throughout art, how we leave our mark and how we connect. Illustrated essays from ancient limestone sculptures to contemporary abstract painting.
From being America's most significant ally in the region, Iran suddenly became its greatest adversary: this account, from 1941 onwards, explains how the Shah himself contrived to lose suppor... read more
A follow-up to the New York duo's unbelievably successful 'Flower Colour Guide' published in 2018. Flower arrangement by colour in as many different schemes as there are days in a week or tw... 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
Parallel possible worlds spool from a German rocket strike in London in 1944: five children are killed but, in a feat of authorial engineering, are given futures nevertheless. A dazzling cel... read more
Kneale knows the city like few others (viz his Rome: A History in Seven Sackings, pbk £10.99). His writing is also a delight, so his account of lockdown is worth reading.
The open-source investigative journalism and fact-checking network that works with an independent international collective of researchers, who recently reported on the Navalny poisoning, inc... read more
A vibrant blend of social history and memoir: argues that this three-month period of nation-wide, wintry shutdown gave rise to unprecedented cultural renewal. Fingers crossed for 2021 and 2... read more