Sophie Asmus is a refugee from Revolutionary Russia. She makes an impulsive marriage in Constantinople and her husband takes her back to his home, a fishing port in Scotland. This new life is at first exciting but Sophie quickly realises she has made a terrible mistake and breaks out for a second time. She flees Read More
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Badmouth tells of the adventures and misadventures of an uncle and a nephew, Graham and Robert Fowey, and their involvement with a ventriloquist’s dummy, Harry Sprite. It also tells of Brother Tom, a man who can read minds, of Noah and of Sigmund Freud. Funny and erudite, by turns fantastical and realistic, Badmouth is as mischievous as Harry Sprite.
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One of the best London novels, full of love for the city’s character and it’s history. A man on a revenge mission, another who merely wants to walk every street and a woman – with her own strange fantasy about London – who links them.
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Duncan McLaren charts the way Waugh used his own experiences in a far from conventional biography. Evelyn! is as surprising and as funny as Waugh’s own work.
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Gravity’s Volkswagen is full of love for the VW Beetle, for writing, for filmmaking and for the wilder side of Americana. It is absurd and funny and brilliantly truthful both about the vanities of the film industry and about the stunt driver’s obedience to the laws of gravity.
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Walking was once the only way to get around but now we just walk to the bus stop, station or car. Or we walk as a lifestyle choice – trekking holidays, charity walks, urban explorations. Geoff Nicholson’s The Lost Art of Walking brings pedestrianism back to the centre of life by musing on his own Read More
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In The Music’s All That Matters, Paul Stump reassesses Progressive Rock in terms of transcendentalism, 1960s pop culture and the rise of the rock musician as Romantic Artist. He takes a wide ranging view of the social and cultural background and has carried out extensive interviews, paying equal attention to artists whose reputation has remained high Read More
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A memoir about a German Jewish family focusing onto brothers, Richard and Arthur Lindner.