The first novel by this great Russian author is about buried feelings, early love and youth, approached tangentially by badinage between two old friends.
Jergovic is a prominent Croatian novelist, poet and journalist. Here he explores his family's history through the C20th, using odd bits and pieces of family paraphernalia as spy-glasses to p... read more
A memoir by the cultural historian and Maltravers Herald Extraordinary, redhead and exultant non-driver, whose arms include three stags trippant. His book on James Wyatt is still the best; ... read more
A dazzling Gothic tale set in the Salpetriere asylum in 1885 and its annual ball, under the controlling and sinister hand of Dr Charcot. A startling insight into the treatment of women in th... read more
Set in the 1950s - a chilly patch in the Cold War: Colonel Methuen takes on an assignment in the Balkans and quickly finds himself pursued by both Royalists and Communists. Long out of print... read more