
Indelicacy
In an undefined era and place, a cleaning woman at a museum of art aspires to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of hav...
View full detailsIn an undefined era and place, a cleaning woman at a museum of art aspires to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of hav...
View full detailsTranslated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything dow...
View full detailsWhen Penguin released a new, unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1960 they were charged with the crime of publishing...
View full detailsIn 1976 Ehrlich travelled from her home in New York to Wyoming to shoot a film on sheep herders. While she was there, her partner David died. What ...
View full detailsThe future is here. India has just sent its first spacecraft to the moon, and the placid city of Mysore is gearing up for its own global recognitio...
View full detailsTake a stroll through London with Virginia Woolf as your guide in this beautifully illustrated book. Virginia Woolf relished any opportunity for a ...
View full detailsBetween 1944 and 1960, Natalia Ginzburg wrote The Little Virtues, a collection of eleven vivid portraits of life that are central to her legacy as ...
View full detailsMichael Rips is not a collector. The only things he holds onto are books and his diaries. But then he moves into the Chelsea Hotel with his wife an...
View full detailsA classic of gastronomic writing that redefined the genre, The Gastronomical Me is a memoir of travel, love and loss, but above all hunger. Beginni...
View full detailsIn The Dominant Animal – Kathryn Scanlan’s adventurous, unsettling debut collection – compression is key. Sentences have been relentlessly trimmed,...
View full detailsSeeking fortune and opportunity, Faredoon ‘Freddy’ Junglewalla and his family – his pregnant wife, infant daughter, and burdensome mother-in-law – ...
View full detailsIn these eight evocative and unpredictable essays, Sybille Bedford chronicles her adventures through Europe over a thirty-year period. With her ele...
View full detailsM.F.K. Fisher moved to Aix-en-Provence with her daughters after the Second World War. In Map of Another Town, she traces the history of this ancien...
View full details‘Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but I don’t know for certain.’ So be...
View full detailsFrom Argentina to Siberia, Papua New Guinea to London and New York, Light Box explores lives in transition, in a world where boundaries and human r...
View full detailsFood can embody our personal history as well as wider cultural histories. But what are the stories we tell ourselves about the kitchen, and how do ...
View full detailsHåkan Söderström is a man who has become a legend. Giant in size, rumoured to be bloodthirsty and fearless, he is known simply as ‘the Hawk’. But b...
View full detailsA collection of eighteen deliciously disturbing tales by Saki, the Edwardian master of the short story. Saki’s sharp satire pierces the polite vene...
View full detailsWritten in 1942 to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes shortages, How to Cook a Wolf has continued to rally readers and cooks during times...
View full detailsTranslated by Minna Proctor Michele is the beloved only son of a large, dysfunctional family in 1970s Italy. Headstrong and independent, he has dis...
View full detailsVivian Gornick’s writing has always explored the hard truths of existence: the nature of human loneliness, and the struggle to love, work, and conn...
View full detailsConstanza and her young daughter step off a train in the French Riviera in the late 1920s without the slightest notion of where they are. But their...
View full detailsAs the Second World War looms, Flavia is living in a small village in the South of France. She studies for her Oxford entrance, swims in the sea, e...
View full detailsThat was the last time anyone saw the famous Brazilian novelist Beatriz Yagoda. Upon hearing the news of her disappearance, her American translator...
View full detailsTranslated by Jenny McPhee Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful autobiographical novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick...
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