Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

Spanning 1979-1987, The Fry Chronicles charts Stephen’s arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday. ‘Heartbreaking, a delight, a lovely, comfy book’ –The Times ‘Perfect prose and excruciating honesty. A grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comedyland in the 1980s, with tone-perfect anecdotes and genuine readerly excitement. What Fry does, essentially, is tell us […]

Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bold and provocative book, Yuval […]

*1:a på Modern Librarys lista över 1900-talets 100 viktigaste engelskspråkiga romaner* »Det är boken vi alla står i tacksamhetsskuld till och som ingen av oss kan undkomma.« | T. S. Eliot Hur kan en roman från 1922 fortfarande kännas modernare än nästan allt som trycks i dag? Handlingen i James Joyces Odysseus utspelar sig under […]

Johanna Morrigan (AKA music journo ‘Dolly Wilde’) has a problem – her unrequited love, singer-songwriter John Kite, has become an unlikely heartthrob to the Britpop masses. He has become an unlikely Number One pin-up. And what’s more painful than unrequited love? Unrequited love with someone the whole world wants too! Johanna decides to use everything […]