An unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to Olevano, a small village south-east of Rome. It is winter, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery, she embarks on walks and outings, exploring the banal and the sublime with equal dedication and intensity. Seeing, describing, naming the world around her is her way of redefining her place within it. Written in a rich and poetic style, Grove is an exquisite novel of grief, love and landscapes.

In May and September 1976, two earthquakes ripped through north-eastern Italy, causing severe damage to the landscape and its population. About a thousand people died under the rubble, tens of thousands were left without shelter, and many ended up leaving their homes in Friuli forever.The displacement of material as a result of the earthquakes was enormous. New terrain was formed that reflects the force of the catastrophe and captures the fundamentals of natural history. But it is ...

'This book is a book of truth': thus begins the powerful and deeply moving anonymous testimony of N. O. Body. 'Born a boy' but 'raised as a girl', a young man recounts his youth with the wrong sexual assignment. He speaks of his doubts, his solitude, the rejection as well as the fascination he provokes, his discovery of sexuality and the temptation of suicide when he falls in love with a woman.In December 1905, N. O. Body meets Magnus Hirschfeld, the future founder of Berlin's Inst...

While travelling through the Great Alföld, the vast plain in south-eastern Hungary, Esther Kinsky stops in a small town near the Romanian border. Like many other things, the cinema, 'mozi' in Hungarian, has long since closed. Entranced by the decaying mozi, she soon embarks on the colossal task of reviving it, compelled by the irresistible magic of the cinema, a site rooted in ritual that is steadily disappearing. Beautifully translated by Caroline Schmidt, Seeing Further is a powerfully e...

In 1958, Günther Anders participated in the Fourth International Congress against A- and H-Bombs and for Disarmament in Japan, travelling to Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the anniversary of the bombings. Along with other delegates, Anders visited hospitals for victims and war memorials, before returning to Tokyo to lead a special commission on moral obligation in the atomic age.In The Man on the Bridge, Anders chronicles this trip, combining memoir, philosophy and political ac...