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...