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
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
Long anticipated voyage through the overlapping currents of nature, life and art. PH won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Leviathan, or The Whale; here he attempts to answer why Durer's art endu... read more
Oh to be seven again, to pore over 100 pages of fascinating details on the physics of flight and aerodynamics with gorgeous retro drawings of ailerons, propellers and flaps by a graphic desi... read more
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