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This title explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church’s double standards and their own passions.
The Ukranian city of Lviv’s many names (Lviv, Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg, Leopolis) bear witness to its conflicted past – it has, at one time or another, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Russia and Germany, and has brought forth numerous famous artists and intellectuals. ‘My Lwow,’ Jozef Wittlin’s short 1946 treatise on the city he left in 1922, is a wistful and lyrical study of an electrifying cosmopolis, told from the other side of the catastrophe of the Second World War. Philippe Sand’s essay provides a parallel account of the city as it is today: the cultural capital of Ukraine, its citizens played a key roled during the Orange Revolution, and its executive committee declared itself independent of the rule of President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014. ‘City of Lions’ includes both old black-and-white photographs showing Lviv during the first half of the 20th century, and new photos.
Here is a collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein’s most enrapturing and essential short writings – a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful works. In the collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the bearer of a joyfully radical literary vision.
When childhood friend Pris breezes back into her life begging for help with a dangerous stalker, our heroine is thrust suddenly into the world of the Canadian uber-rich. And when Pris’s stalker is then murdered outside her book launch, the case is seemingly closed. But something still doesn’t feel right, so our nameless heroine delves into her old friend’s past, seeking the mastermind behind Pris’s troubles before it’s too late. Bunnywit does his level best to warn them, but no one else speaks Cat, so background peril soon becomes foreground betrayal and murder. Our detective walks a dangerous path in a world where money is no object and the stakes are higher, and more personal, than ever.
The stories in this collection are rich, tangled, and suffused with mystery and wonder. In the narrowing, winding city streets, strange figures roam. Great flocks of birds soar over rooftops, obscuring the sun. Cockroaches appear through cracks and scuttle across floorboards. Individuals careen from university buildings to dimly lit parlour rooms, through strange shops and endless storms. Crowded with moments of stunning beauty, the 15 stories in his collection showcases Schulz’s darkly modern sensibility, and his essential status as one of the great transformers of the ordinary into the fantastical.
Ludwig Bemelmans’ charming intergenerational friendship with the late-in-life ‘First Lady of Interior Decoration’ provides an enormously enjoyable nostalgia trip to the sun-soaked glamour of Los Angeles, where de Wolfe surrounded herself with classic movie stars and a luminous parade of life’s oddities. With hilarity and mischief that de Wolfe would no doubt approve, ‘To the One I Love the Best’ lifts the curtain on 1950s Hollywood – a bygone world of extravagance and eccentricity, where the parties are held in circus tents and populated by ravishing movie stars.
To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, Kate meticulously plans a dinner party – from the fancy table setting to the perfect baked alaska waiting in the freezer. But by the end of the night, old tensions have flared, the guests are gone, and Kate is spinning out of control. Set between from the 1990s and the present day, from Carlow to Dublin, the family farmhouse to Trinity College, ‘Dinner Party’ is a beautifully observed, dark and twisty novel that thrillingly unravels into family secrets and tragedy.
During the 1940s and 1950s, female writers were producing a remarkable body of short stories – many of which have only recently begun to be appreciated. Selected and introduced by writer and critic Lucy Scholes, the stories in this collection provide tantalising snapshots of a changing society. They capture the long shadow of the Second World War and the subtle reconfigurations of domestic arrangements, ranging from a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the living rooms of the British Raj in India. This collection places stories from acclaimed writers such as Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Bowen alongside lesser-known, but equally brilliant, works. Suffused with tension and longing, combining supernatural dread with internal disharmony, their writing is crystalline and elegant and their storytelling endlessly compelling.
The Orient Express rushes towards the promised land at top speed. So begins this extraordinary memoir, the sequel to ‘Days in the Caucasus’, which saw Banine fleeing her homeland and a forced marriage for freedom in Paris. On her arrival in the French capital, she finds shelter with relatives and within the Russian emigree community, where she is welcomed, until her family’s riches begin to run out. Then she must think about finding the job, and so enters the word of modelling and high fashion.
Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world’s most heinous villains – a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother’s children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the the Tudors? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard III really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower.
Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide – the thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz – a luxury New York hotel where he worked as a waiter in the 1920s. With equal parts affection and barbed wit, he uncovers the everyday chaos that reigns behind the smooth facades of the gilded dining room and banquet halls. In hilarious detail, Bemelmans sketches the hierarchy of hotel life and its strange and fascinating inhabitants: from the ruthlessly authoritarian maitre d’hotel Monsieur Victor to the kindly waiter Mespoulets to Frizl the homesick busboy. Illustrated with his own charming line drawings, Bemelmans’ tales of a bygone era of extravagance are as charming as they are riotously entertaining.
In the year 1000, the ordinary people of the lands surrounding the North Sea are struggling to survive. Meanwhile their nobles and rulers are concerned with only one thing: power. To get power they need soldiers, to get soldiers they need silver, and to get silver there is no better way than war and plunder. This vicious cycle draws all the lands of the north into a brutal struggle for supremacy. But who will emerge victorious? The Wolf Age takes the reader on a thrilling journey through the bloody history of England and the other nations ringing the North Sea. Warfare, plotting, backstabbing and bribery abound as Tore Skeie shows us how intimately England’s early history was bound up with that of Scandinavia, bringing the world of the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons to life in splendid technicolour.
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