The Russia House

The Russia HouseA spy story, a love story, and a fable for our time. In his first post glasnost spy novel, le Carr captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet masters who command them. Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small time publisher, a self destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was

but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poet were somehow the same person

The intensely-erotic feminist cult classic

Richard Avedon

The author’s love of poetry suffuses this insightful book—a volume for all readers interested in a fresh introduction to the art that lies at the centre of Western civilisation

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she describes a uniquely frank

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Nor did the conflict end there

On an icy motorway eighty kilometres outside the city