NW
This is the story of a city. The north-west corner of a city. Here you’ll find guests […]
This is just a selection. Please drop by and check out more piles of books.
Toby’s Room
Toby and Elinor, brother and sister, friends and confidants, are sharers of a dark secret, carried from […]
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair’s personal record of the area of north-east London where he […]
Sweet Tooth
Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man […]
Watching the Dark
Banks returns for his 20th adventure in Watching the Dark . This time a fellow detective is […]
The Rage
A gripping new thriller set in credit-crunch Dublin, from the master of hardboiled Irish noir Vincent Naylor […]
Guest review
Broken Harbour
Having devoured her three previous works In the Woods, The Likeness, and Faithful Place, I impatiently awaited […]
Caribou Island
On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling. Gary, […]
West and South
The Beat generation and the civil rights movement documented in incomparable photographs Throughout the fifties, Los Angeles-based […]
The Rest Is Noise – Listening to the Twentieth Century
In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the […]
John Coltrane – The Story of a Sound
John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement […]
The Doors – A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
A fan from the moment the Doors’ first album arrived, Greil Marcus saw the band many times […]
Captain Beefheart – The Biography
Following Don Van Vliet’s death Mike Barnes will look to reassess his legacy through new interview material […]
The Party at Jack’s
In the summer of 1937, Thomas Wolfe was in the North Carolina mountains revising a piece about […]
A Death in Summer
The new Quirke Dublin mystery from John Banville writing as Benjamin Black When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell […]