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A lyrical and enchanting memoir set among the stalls of New York's legendary Chelsea flea market.Michael Rips is not a collector. The only things he holds onto are books and his diaries. But then he m

London of the mind, the heart and the eye is displayed, discussed and dissected in this classic work of 1962. With eloquence and understated wit, V S Pritchett presents a pithy, knowledgeable distilla

"Playful and poetic . . . A foxy, original writer. Memory fuses with wonder, and wonder with worship." --The Wall Street Journal "Marvelously vivid, perfectly tuned. . . Tolstaya is well known in Russ

From A for (dining) alone to Z for Zakuski, ‘a Russian hors d’oeuvre’, An Alphabet for Gourmets takes us through a selection of food essays by the incomparable M. F. K. Fisher, alighting on long-time obsessions and idiosyncratic digressions to wholly charming effect.Admired by W. H. Auden as one of the greatest American writers, M. F. K Fisher never focuses on just the food set before her. Instead, with unfailingly elegant prose, an eye for evocative detail and a knack for sharp-edged wit, she draws us in to the whole experience: from the company to the setting, from the preparation to the scraped-clean plate. She liberates her readers from caution, sweeps away adherence to culinary tradition, and celebrates cooking, eating and dining in all its guises.Evocative, thoughtful, with a light touch and a wry humour, these essays illustrate with captivating ease why M. F. K. Fisher has become one of the most beloved and admired food writers of the twentieth century.‘I do not know of anyone i

TRANSLATED BY FRANCES FRENAYEDelia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in the city and silk sto

A Times, Spectator, TLS and BBC Music Magazine Book of the Year'Fascinating.' Guardian'Superlative.' The Times'Definitive.' ObserverAs an icon of India, Ravi Shankar ranks not far below Gandhi or the

Told from the alternating perspectives of a mother who loses her son and the woman who steals him, Navarro’s searing novel explores ambivalent motherhood across the class divides of Mexico City.

'A stunning debut . . . There is delicacy in the details of working in a lab full of microbes and pipettes that dances across the pages like the feet of a Cunningham dancer: pure, precise poetry.' --

'This sturdy advice makes working out what to do with the last egg feel like a higher pursuit, rather than an act of desperation.' GuardianThe classic book on shopping, cooking and eating with courage

TRANSLATED BY FRANCES FRENAYE The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: 'I shot him between the eyes.' As the tale a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation

One of the most original and seductive novels by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.At the outbreak of the Algerian war, a young man who calls himself Victor Chmara flees Paris for a sma