Jonathan Cape
The Stopped Heart
Mary and Graham Coles, attempting to rebuild after a tragedy, move into a cottage in a small English village. Mary,…
Freya
The novel starts at the end of the Second World War. Freya Wyley, aged 20, has been doing intelligence work…
The Noise of Time
This is a fictional account of the life of the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It is by no means a…
Yanks and Limeys: Alliance Warfare in the Second World War
In spite of the title, this book only covers land warfare in the European theatre and says nothing about the…
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
This is a work of immense political and personal detail with a straightforward style, easily read by anyone with an…
The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother, and Me
This is both a charming and very well-written group biography, as well as a fresh examination of those eccentric, privileged…
Death and Mr. Pickwick
Robert Seymour is the most prolific cartoonist and caricaturist in 1830s England. Seymour develops a new character named Mr. Pickwick,…
Curtain Call, Or the Distinguished Thing
London 1936, and the UK is in the midst of concerns about a seemingly approaching war with Germany, allied to…
The New World
This is a sequel to the former Poet Laureate’s own sequel to RL Stevenson’s Treasure Island. This was titled Silver…
The Zone of Interest
Editors' choice
Amis takes us into the uncomfortable territory of a Nazi death camp in Poland in 1942 and 1943. It is…
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