From the publisher: A new history of personal and community relationships across post-imperial Britain, from 1940s Cardiff to the millennial Midlands.Between the end of the Second World War and the ...

Loads of good new poetry has come into the shop in the last few weeks. Marvellous pamphlets from David Hackbridge Johnson and Courtney Conrad; a selection of James Tate (which I was pleased to see ...

‘A brilliant and satirical retelling of the Theseus myth, Fran Ross’s only novel centres on Oreo and her journey to find her father. Funny and affecting, this is a real jem.’ ‘A lyrical and evocative ...

‘Nell Zink has a great backstory’, writes Christopher Tayler in the London Review of Books. ‘She’s the woman who came out of nowhere – or, on closer inspection, out of a busy background of Virginia ...

From the publisher: 'All the charm, wonder, eccentricity and vigour of country life is here in these pages, and told with such engaging directness, detail and colour . . . Bliss' STEPHEN FRY'A ...

‘J.G. Farrell’s masterpiece, the second in his loose trilogy about the decline of the British Empire, tells the story of the British community of the small town of Krishnapur under siege in the Indian ...

This autumn brings a flurry of great reissues: Dinah Brooke’s brilliantly horrible Lord Jim at Home; a spooky Margaret Oliphant; Elizabeth Mavor’s absolutely wild sounding A Green Equinox; and a Faber ...

From the publisher: From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance rich with love and betrayal, with more than a dash of magic.‘One of the most beautiful books I ...

It’s an exceptional time for poetry biographies: Katherine Rundell on John Donne, the paperback of Julia Copus on Charlotte Mew, and Mark Wormald on Ted Hughes and fishing (sounds unpromising but I am ...

From the publisher: The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental ...

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