For flâneurs and cinephiles: at an Italian film festival a celebrated director meets a local woman who offers to guide him round the city. Seductive, cinematic, with echoes of Andre Aciman.
Tabucchi's paean to old Lisbon and to Fernando Pessoa is comic, elegiac, very clever, slightly surreal and hugely enjoyable. One of three new editions of his work.
The story of a young girl growing up just before WW2: the late Morrison's first novel, published in 1970, still outstanding in its fiftieth anniversary year. In telling the 'how', she makes... read more
A story about a young woman in New York, newly married and nervous. Offill has mastered the curious genre of autofiction by shattering her books into deliciously pithy paragraphs: overheard ... read more
The Jewish residents of a Manhattan retirement home put on a frenzied production of Hamlet. Published to critical acclaim in 1994, Isler's tale of geriatric theatrics probes, with steady, da... read more
A brilliant tale of lexicographers whose lives are influenced in surprising ways by mountweazels. (Mountweazel, noun: a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary or work of referenc... read more