A memoir by this most communicative classicist about her own experiences of suicide, and how she found consolation and understanding of herself and her family through close readings of clas... read more
A memoir of her multifarious travels, rich with culinary ideas - Russian railway pies, Sultanahmet in the snow, Polish cloudberries... Eden's latest book is imbued with her knowledge and lov... 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.
A deliciously-written debut novel, in which a harried civil servant is assigned to help a Victorian time-traveller adjust to the C21st. By turns a romance, a thriller and an acid critique of... read more
The passage of time and unseen overlaps echo back and forth in the lives of two couples living at different times in one Parisian flat. By the author of Flaneuse: Women Walk the City.
Powerful debut novel set in a coastal Irish town, where women must navigate their emotional lives among hard, manipulative men. Fine characterisation and atmosphere.
In this debut novel by a fine poet, a young woman's table-waiting, mould-spraying life of urban precariousness is disrupted by a glamorous stranger with a shared enemy.
In 1600 Adams was the first English man to step on Japanese shores - one of only nine survivors of a Dutch trading expedition. He became the shogun's advisor and ship builder, and a samurai.... read more
Short stories and excerpts by Seth, Turgenev, Woolf, Mansfield, Nabokov, Angelou and many others. A new addition to the Everyman anthologies in stripey jackets.
A Japanese man tries to form a relationship with his half-French child, who has grown up on the other side of the world. The other side of the story told in A Single Rose, this nevertheless ... read more
A quiet and thoughtful novel about a girl growing up on an island off the Welsh coast before WW2, whose horizons are altered by the arrival of two ethnographers.