Sharp and tender at once, a humourous take on family dysfunction and human weakness seen through a young boy's eyes.

A great, ancient art form, brought right up to date by one of Japan's foremost writers

What do we talk about, when we talk about progress?

An intriguing mystery steeped in Mediterranean atmosphere.

A lifetime's reading of Proust's masterpiece: A highly entertaining book that takes in such disparate Proustian obsessions as insomnia, food and digestion, colour, addiction, memory, breath and breathing, breasts, snobbism, music, and humour.