A unique and powerful novel about love, community and the barriers we build out of language to contain the bottomless depths within us, set in a Maya village in Mexico
An unforgettable portrait of the Austro-Hungarian author of The Radetzky March, this biography in letters - selected here for the first time by Michael Hofmann - is classic European literature at its finest
In 1970 Jeffrey MacDonald was accused of murdering his pregnant wife, and the journalist Joe McGinniss decided to write a book about it. Malcolm's celebrated book sheds a fascinating light on the conflict and controversy that followed, and asks whether all journalists are, ultimately, immoral.
A poetic, enthralling novel based on the life of one of the early botanist-explorers Anders Sparrman. He sailed with Cook to the Antarctic, explored the South African interior, and became a passionate abolitionist.