Lucinda Byatt
Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy
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The book’s title contains the clue to its unique approach. Duggan has drawn on the reams of correspondence received by the Duce’...Read Review
The Cruel Trade
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This unusual novel is set in Zanzibar in the mid-19th century, where slavery, ivory and trade from the northern ports have made ...Read Review
Memory of the Abyss
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Returning home late one night, Felice Stocchino and his young son, Samuele, are refused a glass of water at a neighbour’s house. ...Read Review
The Knot
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This is a perfect book for the green-fingered reader – and also for translators! Henry Lyte has made it his life’s work to ...Read Review
The Good Hope
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William Heinesen was a native of the Faeroe Islands – where this book is set – although he wrote in Danish. He was renowned as ...Read Review
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
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This is a story you might think you know already, also thanks to Alan Moorehead’s two books published fifty years ago. However, ...Read Review
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
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There was something serendipitous about reading this book in a week that modern scientists took a step closer to the elusive Higgs boson. ...Read Review
The Tea Lords
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Haasse’s books have achieved classic status in her native Netherlands, and this is the first to be translated for 15 years. The Tea ...Read Review
Venetian Navigators: The Voyages of the Zen Brothers to the Far North
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Strands of serendipity weave through the various levels on which this book is written: to start with di Robilant’s chance encounter with ...Read Review
The Favourite: Sir Walter Ralegh in Elizabeth l’s Court
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Lyons’ account of Ralegh, a “self-seeking, self-publicizing butterfly”, his early life and meteoric rise to become Elizabeth’s favourite also offers a detailed ...Read Review
