Stories from the North about trying to stay ahead of the past
A dazzlingly adventurous fusion of fiction and memoir from Belfast
A compassionate portrayal of the professionals of the dying trade
Words and stories to defend the truth against Russian lies and propaganda
Combating oppression and injustice with clarity rather than anger
The elusive depth that lies behind the all-too-explicit ordinariness
Ways in which knowledge was disseminated in early modern Europe
The postwar networks of the Nazi art plunderers and their facilitators
Vasily Grossman and the narrative of the Great Patriotic War
Orwell, Koestler and the democratic left’s crusade against Stalinism
An idiosyncratic history of France from a skilled storyteller