Ferrara, Rome, Sicily and more: Italian fiction and non-fiction from the mid-late C2oth to the present. Ground-breaking and compulsive, the first novel in Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet stand... read more
A modern Gothic triumph, that blends the lives of three women living, at different times, near the Firth of Forth in Scotland. Powerfully imagined, a deftly handled plot, and devastating.
Entertaining and intriguing - if the dear reader can be persuaded to overlook the fatuous and needy title and its horrid, self-promoting exclamation mark.
A few strange hours in the troubled life of a teenage boy: another short, mysterious novel from the author of Lanny and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
As reviving for the jaded as one of Jeeves's pick-me-ups: Psmith; the dreadful efficient Baxter, secretary-bird to the Earl of Emsworth; Jeeves and Wooster; Uncle Fred and his mischievous be... read more
The author is Anatoly Kuznetsov, who grew up in Kiev. He documented as a boy the appalling massacre of Jews, Ukrainians and Russians by Nazi forces in 1941. First published in Russian (in a ... read more
A set of all four cards: Poetry, Gardens, Out of Print and Natural History. Cards blank inside; designs by James Campbell.
(If you wish for the set to be all the same, please ad... read more