Lerner's fiendishly clever second novel is about a writer who has just received an enormous advance for his second novel. The excitement of this sum is dwarfed by other pressures: strange we... read more
Travel memories - some imagined, such as a performance of 'Hamlet' off the African coast, in 1607 - from the amiable author of A Pike in the Basement: Tales of a Hungry Traveller.
With Chartists, Diggers and Levellers among her cast, the revered Green MP for Brighton offers an inclusive account of Englishness that differs radically from that purveyed by the Right.
An awe-inspiring epic about a young Dutch microbiologist whose research takes her on a deep dive into sea and space. These journeys raise profound questions about the origin of life, our pla... read more
A novel (Tatting, 1957) in which a just-married young couple go to Cornwall where the inhabitants are definitely odd, and a group of short stories about the complexities of love and sex (Man... read more
Majorelle (1886-1962) was a French painter who travelled widely in Italy and Egypt before settling in Morocco in 1917; he became well-known as an Orientalist painter (with shades of Edward H... read more
Published under the auspices of the Burlington Magazine, this is a series of 17 essays on aspects of the history of fine art conservation (from the conservation of the 'Ghent Altarpiece' to ... read more