Ocean State
For the Oliviera family – mum Carol, daughters Angel and Marie – autumn 2009 in the once-prosperous […]
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Finnegans Wake
A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary […]
The Most Dangerous Book – The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses
For more than a decade, the book now considered the most important novel in the English language […]
Ulysses
Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens […]
The Sentence
Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the […]
Her Diaries and Notebooks
Published for the very first time for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith’s diaries and notebooks […]
The Retreat
Since childhood, Sandra Peters has been fascinated by the small, private island of Lieloh, home to the […]
The Fell
At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and […]
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Hailed as “an eloquent and seemingly unsilenceable voice of freedom” by The New York Times, Ai Weiwei […]
The Dawn of Everything
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike – either free and equal, […]
Burntcoat
In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her […]
Tenderness
D. H. Lawrence is dying. Exiled in the Mediterranean, he dreams of the past. There are the […]
Bewilderment
Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life on […]
Matrix
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage […]
The Storyteller
So, I’ve written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable […]