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A captivating history of obsessive collectors: from ancient looters and idolaters to fin de siècle decadents, Freudian psychos, and hoarders.Collectors are often praised for their taste in art or contributions to science, but there can be a darker side: their passion is...
'A fascinating, tragic and instructive story, vividly told' Sunday TelegraphRoger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognized as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of...
Set in a run-down girls' boarding school in the 1980s, with the cold war still in full swing and featuring a curious case of mass psychogenic illness, Havoc promises to be another perfect tragicomedy from the author of I'm Sorry You Feel That Way.Praise for Rebecca...
'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' New York Times'Nothing short of brilliant' Wall Street Journal'A subtle, often darkly funny novel about the relationship between art and power' Sunday Times'A dazzling performance and a real page turner' Salman RushdieFrom 'one...
'Compelling, vibrant, and dazzling' Brandon Taylor, Booker shortlisted author of Real Life'Very human, very real but also, fundamentally, extremely fun to read' Rebecca Watson, author of Little Scratch'There's something delightful on every page' Lauren Oyler, author of...
A Granite Silence is an exploration - a journey through time to a particular house, in a particular street, Urquhart Road, Aberdeen in 1934, where eight-year-old Helen Priestley lives with her mother and father. Among this long, grey corridor of four-storey tenements, a...
'Sailing away, he survived at sea, then on foreign land, and then by writing - re-living his life, many times, many ways, in English fiction' Neil Rennie, from his preface to The Secret Sharer and Other StoriesThe stories in this selection show the intense influence of...
'The stories are rich in dialogue - indeed on many pages there is only dialogue - while the quick exchange of words beats out the rhythm of history on the move' CLAIRE CONNOLLY from her preface to The Experiences of an Irish R. M.The stories in Experiences of an Irish...
'The novel's dark energies - concerned with histories of gender, property, desire, and institutionalization - carry it forth into our present moment. It remains indispensable reading' Claire Connolly from her preface to The Real CharlotteIn 1894, the London evening...
Dis//Integration, a previously unpublished work by William Melvin Kelley, author of A Different Drummer, is a notable and welcome addition to African American literature.The linked "2 novelas, 3 stories, and a little play" that make up DIS//INTEGRATION follow the life...
'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian' Julian Barnes from his preface.Published in Russian in April 1840, A...
'Danticat offers an invaluable primer to the Haitian American experience in all its inherited trauma. Arguably she does for the Haitian diaspora what Junot Díaz has done for Dominican Americans' TLSShortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Nonfiction'Danticat's...
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