‘Fate,’ said Arthur. ‘The capital letter F. But chance is a powerful force, and suddenly you acquire a Fate that…
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‘I was in my sixth month when the girl came knocking.’ ‘The girl’ is an art college student, and she…
What might drive a left-wing intellectual to espouse xenophobic views and defend the indefensible? How might the community around him…
Novelist, poet and academic (Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford) Nicola Gardini takes you through…
This powerful memoir charts the journey of Simonetta Agnello Hornby (who begins with a loving family’s portrait) and her son…
These essays, written between 1944 and 1960 by the prominent Italian intellectual Natalia Ginzburg (1916–1991), offer insights into history, literature,…
The title says it all: smoking kills – though in the case of this novel, the victim is not the…
A novel entitled That Summer in Puglia, with all its suggestiveness, might first appear too attention-seeking. Its opening pages suffice…
Kai Aareleid’s Burning Cities, one of three titles in the Baltic Season of the Peter Owen World Series, successfully weaves…
Monday, 16 April 2018, 7 pm Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX – details here Free entry.…
One of the most original novels I’ve read in a long time, The Core of the Sun is set in…
This is one of those books you could devour in a few hours but which then baits the mind for…
