Beautifully written and sensitive to his subject, this is a moving novel about Lampedusa, his remarkable wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee, and the writing of 'The Leopard'.
Both social satire and love story, this is the tale of a crumbling English aristocratic family clinging to the past while coping with fallout from the 2008 crash. HR's second novel; the firs... read more
The most popular of Szabo's books in her native Hungary, published for the first time in English. It forms a loose trilogy with 'The Door' and 'Katalin Street'.
Those who read 'Look Who's Back' will know that Vermes does white-knuckle satire. In this, he imagines a column of refugees walking to Europe in front of TV cameras.