This edition of Good Behaviour belongs to a newly reissued catalogue of Molly Keane’s work to coincide with the centenary of her birth. The introductions to three of them – Good Behaviour, Loving and Giving and Time After Time – are written
Things aren’t going well for Ella Nesbit. Due to staff shortages she’s having to man a reception desk rather than work at the sound engineering job she loves; Justin, an unbearable new trainee, is throwing his weight around, and she’s got a major
Gigi and The Cat are two novellas from the French novelist Colette. Gigi is a 15 year old girl born into a family of what were high class Parisian courtesans (“We never marry in our family”). She is looked after by her grandmother
Hermann Hesse was a German novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. He is most famous for his novels Steppenwolf and Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game). Gertrude is I believe a lesser lauded and read novel, it is none
I have to begin by pinning my colours to the mast: I am a big fan of Frida Kahlo’s art, I am fascinated by the story of her life and I loved the 2003 biopic starring Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina. Not surprisingly then I approached this
British organic and Fairtrade food chain Fresh and Wild teamed up with organic expert Ysanne Spevack, editor of online organic food magazine organicfood.co.uk, to produce this cookbook. It’s both worthy and worthwhile, but sometimes Spevack’s
Evie Kinsella has a hectic life. Single mother to her four-year-old daughter, Holly and working in a job she loathes to support them both, a visit to her friend Monique in France is just what the doctor ordered. Envisaging a week of fun and no responsibility
This is the story of postwar Japan, as seen through the eyes of Masuji Ono, a retired artist. Ono is proud of his rise to a man of stature and influence in pre-war Japan. He recounts his struggle to become a famous artist; through
When Carlo Wolff opened his review of The Five People You Meet in Heaven with the words “How many ways can you define ‘superficial’?” he had no idea what he started. You see, Wolff was a freelance journalist commissioned
The key advisor to the American President has just been murdered in Cairo, there are no witnesses, no motive – the last word heard was FIREBIRD. Sammy Rashid is assigned the hopeless task of finding Adam Ibram’s killers, the case has political implications
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