Subtitled 'a true story of Russian money-laundering, state-sponsored murder, and surviving Vladimir Putin's wrath': BB's exposé of the Magnitsky affair and its subsequent international rami... read more
The story of Anna Essinger, a German Jewish teacher who smuggled her school to England in 1933 and then fielded children arriving on the Kindertransport.
A very clever debut from a distinguished hand in the art world: a Cambridge don rather stuck in his ways is repelled by an outbreak of modern art in his quad. Wafted on a cloud of academic d... read more
A perfect antidote to toxic positivity – a touching, deeply felt and beautifully written look at the human condition, by the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't ... 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 splendid return to Ibbotson's adored Amazonian world, this time with Rosa, a Kinderstransport child. Many characters from Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea make an appearance too. Carrol... read more
Ruthlessly funny memoir of working front of house: the great deception of ease, of luxe, calme et volupte , of lamplight and conversation, while, behind the swing doors, rages a very differe... read more