Octave Mirbeau 
The Torture Garden 

‘Makes you say: yes, that is exactly how it is.” -Torrey Peters A ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in our volatile, imag …

Outrageous, unfashionable, politically incorrect though many of Plato”s opinions undoubtedly are, we should not just dismiss them as thoughts now unthinkable, but think through them, recognising the …

This selection of clinical seminars held by Wilfred Bion in Brasilia (1975) and Sao Paulo (1978) is the nearest we shall ever get to experiencing his application of his theories and views to …

Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism ”Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring … highly intelligent, furiously funny” Sunday Times …

OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWFrom A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for …

”Deeply moving … A triumph” Justin Webb ”What might, in other hands, have been simply macabre becomes peculiarly mesmerising” Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday Ten seconds before my fathe …

The experiences of women in twentieth-century wars in South Asia and the Middle East challenge the concept of the separation of front and homefront and of family and society common to most modern …

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies” life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a ‘Heavenly voice’ told her ‘There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek …

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER * UPDATED WITH NEW REPORTING * ”It”s all here in this stunning first draft of the history of the presidency of Donald Trump” Sydney Morning Herald ”An …