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Silvana Paternostro’s biography is entertainingly made up of interviews with those who best knew Gabo
This debut novel zeroes in on Naples’ new breed of computer-savvy gangsters-in-training
‘Mars by 1980’ is a beguiling history of electronic music — from Stockhausen to Kraftwerk via ‘Dr Who’
An effort to uncover the story behind a secret London murder trial
A deluge engulfs Naples in this newly translated Italian classic
A portrait of the writer during his productive four years in the South Pacific delights from start to finish
Killers of the Flower Moon recreates a pivotal moment in the history of US law enforcement
A history of Catholicism in Britain offers a sprawling chronicle of heroism and holiness
A wide-ranging Caribbean travelogue paints a picture of a region ahead of its time
A collection of dispatches from countries in flux is alert to the differences between tourism and travel
A newly launched hot-air balloon operation offers the ideal way to explore the world’s driest desert
A lapsed bishop offers an arrestingly sceptical account of the development of world religions
A study of great writers facing death offers a strange sort of comfort to the living
A daughter remembers her lost father in a powerful memoir of Auschwitz-Birkenau
A lost Paris of boulevardiers, gangsters and absinthe-imbibing poets is brought vividly to life
A rich amalgam of social history and reportage that explores changing attitudes to autism
The politics of cartography lies at the heart of a legal thriller set in postcolonial Africa
In July 1840, the paddle-steamer Britannia set sail from Liverpool, inaugurating the first timetabled passenger service across the Atlantic and changing ocean travel forever. Exactly 175 years on, Ian Thomson joins a celebratory cruise recreating its voyage
Collected essays on Italy’s literature and politics are lucid and erudite
The land of his mother’s birth was a mystery to Ian Thomson, until he set off to explore its gloriously wild, trout-filled rivers
A journey through the work of the 17th-century polymath
The West Indian immigrant experience of postwar Britain
A new biography of the ‘master of suspense’ that emphasises the film-maker’s Catholic upbringing
