The story of a mixed-race family searching for identity in Northern England, told with spirit and skill by award-winning novelist Helen Walsh.
Milan Kundera’s ‘The Curtain’ is a collection of essays exploring the history and art of the novel, which reads very much like a Milan Kundera novel.
The story of a mixed-race family searching for identity in Northern England, told with spirit and skill by award-winning novelist Helen Walsh.
The late Giovanni Arrighi, a Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, compares western capitalism and the ‘industrious revolution’ of China – providing a useful insight into the history of world’s most populated country in the process.
Michael Klimes reviews Noel Annan’s classic depiction of post-war Britain, Our Age, a book sadly now out-of-print but well worth tracking down if you’re interested in the end of empire, the rise of Thatcherism, and the evolution of New Labour.
David Yallop’s book on the pontificate of John Paul II is subtitled ‘Inside the dark heart of John Paul II’s Vatican’.
Helen Garner’s first novel in fifteen years concerns itself with a truly universal theme – death.
Roberto Saviano’s non-fiction novel on the Camorra has earned him a death sentence and armed escort in Italy.
Vernon God Little is the story of the aftermath of a high school massacre and the accompanying judicial shambles and media circus. Winner of the Man Booker (2003), and Whitbread prize for a first novel (2003).
Fourteenth novel from American academic and satirist, Percival Everett. Originally entitled Making Jesus, apparently.
A historical novel culminating in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, from Robert Harris, author of bestselling titles such as Enigma and Fatherland.