Jonathan Cape
American Adulterer
This novel is unputdownable. Much of what makes it compulsive reading, however, is its voyeuristic quality. Although written in prose…
Cold Blood
As the Bolsheviks seize power, Charlie Doig, half-Scot, half-Russian, sets off in pursuit of personal vengeance. Acquiring an armoured train…
The Quickening Maze
England, around 1840, and John Clare, the middle-aged poet of rural England, is incarcerated with his delusions and alter egos…
Lark & Termite
It’s July 1950, and as Corporal Robert Leavitt commands a platoon in the Korean countryside, his thoughts wander to…
The Rescue Man
This is first novel of Anthony Quinn, film critic of The Independent, and a most impressive debut it is. Liverpool…
Archibald Wavell: The Life and Times of an Imperial Servant
I first came across Archibald, Lord Wavell (1883-1950), through his popular poetry anthology Other Men’s Flowers. I knew little of…
I Believe In Yesterday
Tim Moore, known more for his amusing travel books, has written a wonderfully funny and intelligent account of his seven…
Indignation
Up until the last thirty pages, this book reads like a wonderfully funny and bittersweet coming of age novel, though…
Strange Music
England and Jamaica, 1837 to 1840. There are three narrators: the young poet Elizabeth Barrett, before she married Robert Browning,…
The Enchantress of Florence
Wearing a multicolored leather coat, a Florentine traveler arrives at the emperor of India’s court armed with magic tricks, a…
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