She grew up in Chelsea (indeed her father was a John Sandoe customer); she was a deb in 1958. Then she devoted herself to the IRA and became a terrorist.
This marvellous memoir of her youth in Tottenham ends when her theatrical career takes off: forthright, transparent, dry, funny - there is nothing remotely precious about Dame Eileen's accou... read more
A beguiling work of auto-fiction - a juggling act that Carrère refined in Limonov, The Kingdom etc. He begins a ten-day retreat, lit by the sun of literary success, but desperate matters in... read more
A midnight phone call precipitates an aging, embittered agent into a dash to Iran to find his son and do battle with competing international interests.
A second novel from the author of Preparation for the Next Life, in which a young man confronts his estranged father and protects his ailing mother. Lish's writing is spare but precise, wit... read more