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In ‘Winter Journal’, Auster presents the abandonment of his family by his father from his mother’s point of view: her struggle as a single mother, love found again late in life, her troubled later years and her death: and the subsequent anxiety attacks Auster suffered in the face of her death.
‘Walking Home’ describes Simon Armitage’s extraordinary, yet ordinary, journey. It’s a story about Britain’s remote and overlooked interior – the wildness of its landscape and the generosity of the locals who sustained him on his journey. It’s about facing emotional and physical challenges, and sometimes overcoming them.
Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meets his ‘Aunt Julia’, the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho to write the serials.
Christopher Reid has put together a collection of poetry chosen specifically for the way each poem sounds. He cites T.S. Eliot, who described the process whereby the ear can understand a poem before the mind, and illustrates how this quality is achieved.
Wendy Cope is the bestselling author of Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis and Serious Concerns. In this anthology, she has selected 101 of her own favourite funny poems, with pieces by Lewis Carrol, Kit Wright and S.W. Gilbert, among others.
First published in 1939, T.S. Eliot’s collection of cat poems, written originally to amuse his godchildren and friends, has become one of the all-time favourites of children’s literature.
Paul Auster’s three stories explore the nature of identity. He uses the detective, spy and friendship genres as vehicles to delve into the relationships between different groups of people.
London, 1903. Two women are hanged in Holloway Prison for killing babies. More than 30 years later, their crimes resurface with shocking consequences.
This mystery from the pen of author P.D. James centres around the lives of Mrs Maxie and her parlour maid, Sally Jupp. As Mrs Maxie learns of her son’s sudden engagement, the seemingly quiet Sally seems to be involved and by morning she is dead.
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