The Lion Sleeps Tonight

A long-awaited collection of essays and journalism from one of South Africa’s best-regarded and most influential commentators, which illuminates the darker and lighter sides of the country’s last twenty years….

A Little White Death

“John Lawton is so captivating a storyteller that I’d happily hear him out on any subject. . . . Meticulous artistry . . . The Chekhovian echo brilliantly captures the…

Nine Plays of the Modern Theatre

“The nine plays included in this volume are not only modern by date, 1944-1975, but in their dramatization . . . . Though each may differ from the others in…

Remembrance Day

Time to Start Thinking

“This is a book that will transform the way you think of this country.” —Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lords of Finance…

War Reporting for Cowards

“We find ourselves in good hands throughout the journey. . . . Once in a while his descriptions actually take on a terse Hemingwayesque brilliance. . . . Ayres happened…

Within the Context of No Context

“The writing in this book is so extraordinary. It is as if George Trow had dived down in some deep sea and had taken only the most rare, the most…

Bitter Fruit

“A haunting story of a family disintegrating, wonderfully authentic . . . its progress like slow dancing.” –Barbara Trapido, The Independent…

Gigantic

“[The] stories are suffused with a sort of poetry. . . . Beautiful . . . Nesbitt is smart, dark, and funny, like a young Elmore Leonard with a drinking…

XPD

“A stunning spy story . . . incomparable.”—The Guardian A propulsive and wholly original novel constructed around a supposition that Churchill secretly met with Hitler in 1940 to discuss terms…