Jonathan Cape
Half of the Human Race
The title refers to women, who for much of this book are without the vote. In summer 1911, Connie Callaway,…
Death in Florence
This book, subtitled The Medici, Savonarola and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City, examines a period which…
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Set in the opening quarter of the 20th century, this is not a novel easy to summarise or capture in…
The First Ladies of Rome
Six hundred years of the Roman Empire from Augustus to its long-drawn-out end: this is the serious work of an…
Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto
Suvanto is a sanatorium/hospital in Finland, set sometime in the 1920s. The story is focused on Suvanto’s upper floor patients…
Grandville
This is a sumptuously illustrated graphic novel, by an author-artist who received wide acclaim for his 2007 book Alice in…
The Lady in the Tower
The demand for the Tudors seems inexorable. This is a detailed study of the closing days of the life of…
The Innocent
The novel is set in Soviet Russia and begins in 1972, but then quickly jumps back to the central moment…
The Shape of Him
Sara Highbury is haunted by her long-ago relationship with Herbert Wakeford, a diamond digger in 1920s South Africa. When Herbert…
Stone’s Fall
The story straddles the 19th and 20th centuries, and, like the author’s An Instance of the Fingerpost, is narrated by…
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