In Self-Portrait Abroad, our narrator — a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself — travels the globe, finding the mundane blended everywhere with the exotic: With his usual poker face, he keeps up on Corsican gossip in Tokyo and has a battle...
What a Carve Up! — a hilarious 1980s political satire by Jonathan Coe
It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year:
Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's...
Bee Bearhorn had a number-one-hit single in 1985 - and was never heard of again When beautiful and glamorous thirtysomething Bea Bearhorn is found dead, her younger sister, Ana, is sent up to London by her agoraphobic mother with the awful job of...