Mid-performance, a concert pianist walks off stage in Vienna, leaving her old life. As she begins a new one, she is shadowed across Europe by an almost-doppelgänger.
A vulnerable young man travels to Rome in 1934 with his family for his sister's wedding. The car journey is full of mishaps and squabbles, with tempers fraying over divided attitudes towards... read more
A taut, brilliantly uneasy novel about a young woman drifting through the glamorous world of Long Island as an uninvited and rather desperate guest. By the author of The Girls.
A snakes-and-ladders novella about the misplaced confidence of a bossy widow, whose aspirations to a life of refinement and social elevation bring about her downfall. Ginzburg, as ever, is l... read more
Another of Ginzburg's lambent, ironic novellas: this time about a spoilt boy who grows into a feckless youth. Both he and his parents are blinded by unrealistic hopes, while his sister (the ... read more
A powerful fictional investigation into the separateness of art and artist, through a vicar's discovery of under-age hanky-panky, and an artist's relations with his teenage models.
A rich historical novel of Jacobean power games - politics and palaces, parliaments and surely poison too? A first novel by the biographer of Adam Smith and Edmund Burke.