Abdurraqib's meditation on Black music and performance, A Little Devil in America, was inspired. This new book, a literary memoir about basketball and what it takes to be successful, what it... read more
Slim but far-reaching memoir of the author's brush with suicide, framed as the consequence of familial trauma and isolation. Superbly written, this bears honourable comparison with William S... read more
A re-issue of LB's famous and very funny memoir about working in a New York Hotel. He came to the US in 1914, aged sixteen, and worked at the 'Hotel Splendide' as he called it for the next t... 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
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.
The 'special relationship' was dreamt up by Churchill to keep Britain afloat geopolitically when faced with the loss of empire. Buruma takes a shrewd look at Churchill and FDR, JFK and Macm... read more
A simple cottage that became "a Federal-style manse" complete with bowling alley and tennis pavilion. All beautifully decorated by our Nina. (Perhaps also a dojo upholstered with fabulous fl... read more
A taut, brilliantly uneasy novel about a young woman drifting through the glamorous world of Long Island as an uninvited and rather desperate guest. By the author of The Girls.
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
A teacher of photography on a New England campus remembers his West African childhood: Cole may be writing about himself here. The novel is a subtle, quiet exploration of memory, the passage... read more
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
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
Johan Jakob Astor left Germany for a flute-making business in London in the late C18th, and then moved to New York where he dealt in pianos, opium, furs and real estate: what glistered was i... 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
Following on from his The Prime Ministers, here is a series of essays on all 46 presidents of the USA by various academics, journalists, politicians and historians.
By the former UK Ambassador who had the unenviable task of explaining Britain and Brexit to the US president. He resigned, and wrote this book instead.
WD won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence. Discursive, erudite and observant, he turns now to the story of Colombia's mightiest river.
NB Publication of this book has been de... read more
A survey of this pioneering and serene colourist (1885-1965), who eschewed '-isms' and quietly got on with his work - much of it plein air. Early impressionistic impastos quickly give way to... read more
A memoir set in rural Wyoming where Ehrlich moved in 1978 after the unexpected death of her partner. There is grief, of course, but there are also cowboys and beautiful descriptions of the A... read more
Ellison is reputed to be little short of a genius - for forty years a carpenter, cabinet-maker, industrial designer, sculptor, welder; and capable of realising the three-dimensional processe... read more
A spin on Huckleberry Finn, this harrowing (and characteristically witty) account of his adventures is narrated by James, a runaway slave. It's a scary reflection on racism today.
A bravura upending of the clichés of the 'Great American Novel' from the author of Then We Came to the End. Set in early C21st America, Ferris's protagonist is a romantic in the style of Up... read more
An epic historical novel about political and moral divides in 19th America, approached through the raucous, ill-starred family of John Wilkes Booth. By the author of We Are All Completely Be... read more
A 600-page behemoth of a novel, Crossroads is a cross-generational saga set in 1970s suburban Chicago. The paterfamilias is a pastor wondering whether to leave his failing marriage before hi... read more