Pieces together three generations of a family, moving between Italy and England, in an attempt to understand what roots and home might mean. Subtle, charming memoir.
Marius is the distinguished antiquarian bookseller who features in the work of Javier Marias and worked for Bernard Stone and Peter Ellis; also a wide-ranging writer, most recently on Naples... read more
A stellar second collection: each character and action is precisely observed, each story is shot with humour and pathos. Humane and wistful, these stories - mostly set in Ireland, in County ... read more
Two men go walking in the Dolomites, but not together; one falls to his death, the other reports the body. Is it coincidence that they knew each other in earlier years, and that one had betr... read more
Gorgeously illustrated fable about the origin of the stars: when the sun finds a girl weeping after a moonless night, fearing for her fisherman-father out on the dark sea, he smashes one of ... read more
The host of a New Year's party near Abergavenny is found drowned the next day: DC Ffion Morgan, from the same small village, finds that more than one person in her tight-knit community may h... read more
After graduating in Germany in 1939, FH was sent as an archivist to Paris, where he documented ordinary life throughout the war. He vanished in Berlin in 1945 and this is the first publicati... read more
LB could turn straw into gold. Here she describes chancing across the writings of a rather obscure Greek philosopher, and the wonders and illuminations that followed. Transformative.
The author is a remarkable young birder who has shared a platform with Greta Thunberg and received an honorary doctorate for her environmental work at the age of 17...
A chess tournament in the Cold War is the starting point for this classy and compelling spy thriller; soon we are whisked to Cambridge, Lithuania, Vienna, the GDR, the Kremlin...
An Australian police sergeant returns to the land of his forebears, on the border of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia and is drawn into an investigation into a missing person. An exemplar... read more
An English art historian is found dead in a Venetian bookshop after a bad flood. It's in the via dei Assassini, and her death and its consequences are anything but peaceful. Jolly dark stuff... read more
A sous-chef at a high-end London restaurant is caught between work and caring for her husband with dementia. Fraught and precise, from the author of God's Own Country.
Another mysterious tale in which the gardeners of eden, who serve huge angelic birds, are threatened with turmoil when one of their number escapes over the wall.
Set in Paris, India and Calcutta, this delightful picaresque adventure owes something to both Kim and Kidnapped. Written in bracing C18th language by a genius.