A splendid guide to over a hundred museums not only in Tokyo but far beyond - in Kyoto, Hokkaido, Okinawa, Shikoku, Kyushu, etc. Includes museums of traditional arts and artist's houses, as... read more
The first biography of one of the most important women in C20th British politics; Lady Forkbender - as Private Eye used to call her - was Harold Wilson's political secretary and ran Downing ... read more
Thinking and writing about DHL during the pandemic, Feigel found that his ideas affected her own outlook: this is an intriguing blend of biography and memoir.
An account of the Cairo Conference, in which the map of the Middle East was redrawn, establishing the states of Iraq and Jordan and confirming a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
An aged lady in London finds herself caught up in her neighbours' problems. To help will mean revealing herself as the daughter of a Nazi camp guard. A return to old haunts for the author of... read more
The history of a Jewish Hungarian family told across three centuries, beginning with the adoption of an orphaned German boy by a C18th Italian painter.
Once again the author stars in his own work - this time one of his knives is found adorning the dead body of a critic who had just savaged his new play. And now the poor love finds himself ... read more
Things start to go wrong in a Stockholm hospital and Dr Tekla Berg, a senior doctor, must save lives even faster than usual while solving the mystery of an untraceable and nameless young boy... read more
A memoir about silence, from the mysterious things the adults didn't talk about during his childhood, to the vast silences of the Arctic that have occupied so much of his own adult life as w... read more