Keenly anticipated first volume of poetry from this wonderful, delicate writer. Many of the poems were written during a period of illness, when Toibin found himself only able to write for a... read more
Last autumn we had the great Dutch writer's 533: A Book of Days, a sort of diary of the pandemic on Menorca. Now we have this single poem which repeatedly refers back to images of wartime; h... read more
Poems by Li Bai, Du Fu and others from the 'golden age' of Chinese poetry. Li Bai is said to have died by falling from a boat, reaching for the moon's reflection in the water...
Another outing for the spy hunter Jonas Merrick, which begins with a Russian agent defecting in Denmark. The retired MI5 agent, dragged away from his caravan and quiet life, is known by youn... read more
A troubled policeman is sent to investigate a double murder in rural Catalonia. Cercas, renowned as a novelist, turns his hand to crime - this won Spain's foremost literary prize
An atmospheric, creepy thriller set in a remote valley in northern Italy, where a writer, investigating an apparent drowning many years before, is hampered by superstition.
A Sicilian aristocrat and his American wife agree to write their memoirs; sharing them with each other throws up shadows on the wall... This is a clever, funny novel exploring sexuality, lov... read more
It is several novels since AT announced that this would be her last, but they continue as excellent as ever. The repercussions of a family holiday in 1959 ripples through the generations…