The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge – the man John le Carré called ‘the spy to end spies’, and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of…
‘A whip-smart comedy, chock-full with glamour, secret agents and sun-drenched Californian orange groves – seriously, what could be more heavenly?’ Saga It is September 1940 and Evelyn Murdoch, a translator from the Postal Censorship department, is uprooted from her home…
The wickedly funny sequel to the MI5 and Me, described by Tatler as ‘a stone cold comic classic’, following the irrepressible Lottie’s adventures in 1950s London London in the 1950s. Lottie is a reluctant typist at MI5 and the even…
The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide – now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton To give them hope she must tell their story…
‘A travelogue and memoir to rank alongside anything by Chatwin or Thubron’ Jim Crace ‘A most absorbing and rewarding book’ Michael Palin A moving portrait, part history, part memoir, of Sudan – once the largest, most diverse country in Africa…
‘A fascinating mix of literary criticism, cultural history and memoir … Highly enjoyable’ Sunday TimesHow might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Rereading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, Lara Feigel discovered…
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Selected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick ‘I loved it’ Kate Tempest ‘Astounding’ Roxane Gay ‘A sledgehammer’ New York TimesHeart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming…
The deliciously funny confessions of a debutante which became an international bestseller It is the early 1960s, and eighteen-year-old Charlotte Bingham, fresh from convent school, has been catapulted into the horrors of The Season. Though desperately on the hunt for…
The autumn of that year was the most beautiful I can remember.All Among the Barley is a classic novel of rural life with unsettling modern relevance. Set on a Suffolk farm between the wars, it features fourteen-year-old Edie and her…
What do you lose when you lose your memories? What do you value when this loss reframes how you’ve lived, and how you will live in the future? How do you conceive of love when you can no longer recognise…
A moving account drawing on Christian and Buddhist traditions of how the practice of meditation can allow us to accomplish ‘the gentle pilgrimage of recovery’ from depression ‘What if the suffering that we call depression contains experiences and lessons without…