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Hear Me Out

Armando Iannucci

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The idiosyncratic genius Armando Iannucci is a passionate lover of music. In this book he explores...

The Dumb House: (Scottish Classics)

John Burnside

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As a child, Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn...

The Road Home

Rose Tremain

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Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his...

The Sandman

E.T.A. Hoffmann and Peter Wortsman

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"Strange man, how can you have eyes for sale? Eyes? Eyes?" ' The disturbing tale of a young man's...

Modigliani

Laurent Seksik, Fabrice Le Henanff and Joel Anderson

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Propelled by illness, addiction, drink and drugs to abandon sculpture, Modogliani is a man for whom...

Divining for Starters

Carrie Etter

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In 1999, living in southern California, Carrie Etter began a series of poems focusing on our...

Drowning on Dry Land

Alan Ayckbourn

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Charlie Conrad is a celebrity. His talent? He hasn't got one; the nation took him to their hearts...

Julio Torres recommended The Perpetual Motion Machine - The Story of an Invention in Books (curated)

"This is a curious little book I picked up while I was working at the Neuegalerie in New York, a very formative period in my life. It was published in the early 1900s, and chronicles the author’s attempt at making a perpetual motion machine. Part musings, part diary entries, it’s a trial and error novella about the author attempting to devise a perpetual motion machine and how that obsession illuminates the problems in his real life. It’s a story that’s riddled with failure, but stubbornly optimistic in a way I can relate to."

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