Faber & Faber
Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age
At the Battle of Cunaxa in 401 BC, the Persian king Artaxerxes II defeated his brother Cyrus’s challenge to his…
A Gentle Axe
A man hangs from a tree in Petrovsky Park, St. Petersburg, an axe tucked in his belt. Beside him on…
To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy
Rites of Passage, the first novel of this trilogy, won the Booker Prize; Golding is also a Nobel laureate, a…
The Lost Luggage Porter
Jim Stringer is a newly commissioned Railway Detective working out of York Station for the North Eastern Railway Company…
The Observations
In Scotland in 1863, 15-year-old runaway Bessy Buckley finds work as a maid for the beautiful Arabella Reid and her…
A Night at the Majestic: Proust and the Great Modernist Dinner Party of 1922
18 May 1922, five of the greatest artists of the twentieth century met for supper at the Hotel Majestic in…
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