Although not well known in the UK, Lewis is one of the best conteporary US novelists. This, set on the coast of Maine, is a sort of parable of contemporary American society.
A mysterious philanthropist travels up and down a stretch of Canadian coast delivering books to people who live too far from libraries. This novella was first published in 1933.
The much-anticipated new novel from the author of A Gentleman in Moscow. Three ex-cons and one teenager attempt to make their way from Kansas to San Francisco. A paean to the American West o... read more
A furniture salesman, who tries to keep to the straight and narrow with only the occasional foray into fencing a pilfered gewgaw for a cousin, finds himself drawn into a much bigger heist. A... read more
HRC's first foray into fiction has - surprise, surprise - a US Secretary of State as its protagonist, who has joined an administration desperately trying to undo a period of American isolati... read more
MC returns with another gritty LA-set policier. Detective Renée Ballard is called to a shooting on New Year's Eve, before connecting it to one of her colleague Bosch's unsolved murder cases... read more
Another outing for Inspector Gamache, the Quebecois investigator - crowd control, social manipulation and a charismatic academic touting dangerous ideas lead inevitably to murder most foul.
The stunning new installation of the Frick's collection of Old Masters etc in Marcel Breuer's Brutalist bulding a few blocks away from its usual home, now in the process of restoration. Beau... read more
Architecture, landscape, collections, books, food and wine - with contributions by Jon Meacham, Alice Waters, Jay McInerney, Annette Gordon-Reed, Xavier Salomon and others.
The Cleverley family is graced with fame and fortune, but disaster in their media world is just a tweet away... This satire on social media and today's culture wars will make you ROFL. A li... read more
A no-holds-barred revenge thriller set in Virginia. Two anti-hero fathers try and make up for their poor parenthood and prejudices by avenging the murders of their two sons. Hold on to your ... read more
Executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union, a crime of which she was almost certainly innocent. This is a valuable book on 'The American Dreyfus Affair... read more
In 1960, the author was the first black child to integrate into an all-white school in New Orleans. 60 years later, here is an impassioned call for racial equality.
First UK publication of this celebrated C20th century American poet. Coleman is known as the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles'; her poems are defiant, frank and vivid in their treatme... read more
The open-source investigative journalism and fact-checking network that works with an independent international collective of researchers, who recently reported on the Navalny poisoning, inc... read more