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An idiosyncratic cookbook for the culinary enlightenment of mind and heart, combining perceptiveness with compassion and wisdom with sensuousness – for whenever we feel overwhelmed by our humanity *Available 5th July 2012* ... Read More
A fantastical and darkly humorous collection of stories, by one of the greatest French writers of the twentieth century *Available 28th June 2012* ... Read More
A poetic, reflective exploration of our relationship with the places in which we live and the everyday objects that surround us. ** Available 26th July 2012 ** The Essence of Place is a memoir of Petr Král’s experiences growin ... Read More
In post-Napoleonic Germany, a traveller on his way to Dessau stops off for a night in the mysterious city of Wandernburg. He intends to move on the following day, but the town begins to ensnare him with its strange, shifting geography. After befriending an old organ grinder and falling for the daughter of a local merchant, he soon finds it imp ... Read More
A fascinating study of three great minds from the brilliant biographer *26th July 2012* ... Read More
HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW TRANSLATION BY THE AWARD-WINNING ANTHEA BELL ABOUT THE BOOK In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance–his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope. ... Read More
ABOUT THE BOOK Joseph Grimald (1778 - 1837), one of the greatest English clowns and pantomimes of all time, was born in London to an Italian ballet-master and a dancer in the theatre’s corps-de-ballet. The death of Grimaldi’s father when he was nine plunged the family into debt. He was introduced to the stage at the age of two and began p ... Read More
ABOUT THE BOOK Dino is a placid, unambitious man. Living in a small provincial town, he and his wife spend their time planning journeys to faraway places–journeys they never take. Dino’s only passion is billiards, and he spends his evenings in the local billiards hall honing his technique. One day, however, Dino’s quiet life is ... Read More
Available November 2011 ABOUT THE BOOK My Three Lives was Stefan Zweig’s working title for his work The World of Yesterday, also published by Pushkin Press, and here Matuschek uses the title to reference the three major phases in Zweig’s life–the years of apprenticeshi ... Read More
Anthea Bell’s stunning new translation of Zweig’s tour-de-force Recommended in CLIVE JAMES' Cultural Amnesia ABOUT THE BOOK Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividly to life. ... Read More
