A wry and unsentimental account of the attempt to understand a parent as an independent person with their own history
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‘I believe that marriage, whether we see it as a psychological relationship or a political one, has determined the story of all...

It was while we were weeding the sorghum field that Mama taught me most of her memories of the Rwanda that used to be. Alas! I’ve...

‘There is no better lycee than Our Lady of the Nile. Nor is there any higher. Twenty-five hundred metres, the white teachers...

'I took the revolver out of his desk drawer and shot him between the eyes.'

Four years before she shoots her husband and walks...

From the author of All Our Yesterdays and The Little Virtues, an epistolary novel full of humanity, passion, and keen...

'Dear Michele, she wrote, I'm writing principally to tell you that your father is sick. Go visit him. He says he hasn't seen you...

'As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great...

'The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.'

Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful autobiographical...

'It was incredible how fear and danger never produced ignoble words but always true ones, words that were torn from your very...

It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a...

Hakan Soderstrom is a man who has become a legend. Giant in size, rumoured to be bloodthirsty and fearless, he is known simply as...

Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship...

When Penguin released a new, unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1960 they were charged with the...