In the bestselling Italian Neighbours, Tim Parks explores the idiosyncrasies and nuances of Italian culture. When Parks moved to Italy he found it irresistible; this book is a testament to his love of Italy and his attention to the details of...
L’aventure commence à l’aurore, en juillet 1974 à Anvers : Jacques Brel largue les amarres de son voilier pour un voyage au bout de la vie, jusqu’à cette « île en partance » dont il rêvait « depuis l’enfance ». Bientôt seul avec sa...
Juillet 1974, Anvers : Jacques Brel largue les amarres de son voilier pour un voyage au bout de la vie vers cette « île en partance » dont il rêvait « depuis l’enfance ». Bientôt seul avec sa compagne Maddly, il traverse le Pacifique et...
Who would have thought that seventy-three years after Joseph Roth’s lonely death in Paris, new editions of his translations would be appearing regularly? Roth, a transcendent novelist who also produced some of the most breathtakingly lyrical...
Hailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it was first published. A profound and powerful...
Katya and the Prince of Siam is the story of an ultimately tragic love affair and marriage between a beautiful young Russian girl and an as eastern prince, HRH Prince Chakrabongse of Siam, one of King Chulalongkorn's favourite sons. It tells of...
When his widowed father — once a high court judge and always a formidable figure — drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had...