A day in the life of two women navigating grief and love, isolation and self-determination: a first and very intelligent novel from the author of Notes to Self.
A New York housewife believes that the grotesque protagonist of her husband's novel is based on her. The ensuing paranoic spiral is gripping enough to satisfy any Hitchcock fan...
Mouse wanders through his wood visiting friends as the seasons unfurl; flaps for little fingers reveal the various cosy interiors of his friends' houses, filled with teapots, colourful count... read more
The story of Gaia, the Greek goddess who created the earth and all of nature, whose work is threatened by the ambitions and jealousies of the other gods. Greenberg has won several prizes for... read more
A memorable and delightful old woman - who could have been a fifth columnist in Montypython's Hell's Grannies - takes on the education of an edgy granddaughter.
Subtle and slim volume of essays by a neurologist who champions the cross-fertilisation of different approaches - anatomical, electrical, chemical, etc.
A Crimean War hero's divorce & remarriage causes two lines of descendants, who meet up again one summer in Devon in the 1970s. Ructions ensue. Shrewdly observed and compelling.
A young woman in Tokyo takes a few tentative steps outward after years of isolation. Kawakami's unsettling lyricism and candour about ordinary modern lives have made her one of Japan's most ... read more
A plane inexplicably duplicates when caught in a storm. One plane lands in March; the other in June. As for the duplicated passengers... From this speculative premise comes an engrossing dra... read more
The great Russian poet became a master of the English language in his long American exile: these essays evoke his youth in post-WW2 Leningrad with memorable portraits of his parents, in whom... read more
Written in 2015 by the chess grandmaster and human rights activist, this passionate indictment of Russian kleptocracy is also a warning against the complacency of Western democracies in the ... read more
Happy reminiscences, told in rhyme, by a grandfather to his children. Excellent illustrations, treasure maps, whales waving their tails, adventure, swash-and-buckle... Ages 3-6.
JLS's approach to sheep and shepherding is both practical and lyrical - he, the shepherd, sometimes lies down to sleep with his sheep. Interesting too are his ideas about what constitutes go... read more
Had Mrs Gaskell lived in Japan and a century later, she might have written this intimate portrait of four sisters of good family living in Osaka in somewhat straitened circumstances. Their e... read more
A child moves from the country to the city; her imagination in this unfamiliar world is fired by a comet, and through her imagination comes reconciliation. Aspects evoke Howl's Moving Castle... read more