VM was the author of The Map of Knowledge, a compelling account of the survival of the ancient classics in the Muslim world, and their re-emergence in the West. Now she turns her attention t... 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
It has been raining - constantly - for years; in a city that is largely submerged, three sisters contend with a sinister legacy. Tender, spooky, apocalyptic.
The distinguished historian uses neglected sources to present CdeM as a much-traduced campaigner for the peaceful coexistence of Catholics and Protestants, and as a patroness of the arts.
In 1942, aged 24, the great and defiant Canetti began to write notes, aphorisms and meditations about death - he was dead against it - and, by extension, about and for life; he only stopped... read more