James Thurber & John Updike 
Fun of It 

The Punjab region of India sent more than 600, 000 combatants to assist the British war effort during World War I. Their families back home, thousands of miles from the major scenes of battle, were …

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies” life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a 'Heavenly voice’ told her 'There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek …

Walter the Chancellor”s vivid first-hand account of the wars between the Muslims and the principality of Antioch in the early 12th century describes a less well-known period in the history of the …

” Readers will come away startled at just how fragile the online infrastructure we all depend on is and how much influence China wields – both technically and politically” – Jason Q. Ng, author …

A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine”s past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia, written by a …

Fifteen of these essays by one of the leading authorities on Renaissance Platonism explore the complex philosophical, hermeneutical, and mythological issues addressed by the Florentine, Marsilio …

”Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece” WILLIAM DALRYMPLE ”A journalistic marvel” JAMES MEEK ”A powerful, unforgettable book” NADIFA MOHAMMED From Orwell Prize winning journalist Gh …

An Unfortunate Woman, An Unforgettable Journey was the final book written by Richard Brautigan before his death in 1984 and lay unpublished for sixteen years.Originally written in the 160 pages of a …

This book comprehensively surveys Philip Roth”s published and unpublished works, focusing on the thematic unity which binds them together: the memory of the Holocaust and the altered universe born o …

_______________ ”[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing” – The Time …