City Lights
By Grapevine Books
City Lights
By Grapevine Books
Fiction can take you anywhere, anywhen. A selection of metropolitan masterpieces
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Olivia Laing
£10.99 £10.44Laing finds salvation through art when she's cast adrift in the metropolis. Likely, her experiences will resonate strongly with many modern-day urbanites and maybe shine a light for those a little lost. ~B
Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood
£9.99 £9.49Sketches of 1930s Berlin as it hurtles toward disaster. The novel being the basis for musical 'Cabaret'. ~B
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
£9.99 £9.49A literary travel guide to 1920s Paris and the 'Lost Generation' who found themselves there. ~B
The Buenos Aires Quintet
Manuel Vazquez Montalban
£10.99 £10.44Far more ambitious than your average detective novel, Montalban delves deep into the history and culture of Buenos Aires, expounding on the tango, food and of course taking on the '70s background of dictatorship and 'The Disappeared'. ~G
The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
£9.99 £9.49Following a thread of detection as the story stylistically unravels over the trilogy. An iconic work and a cult classic. ~B
Fragrant Harbour
John Lanchester
£9.99 £9.49The lives of four different characters illuminate the major periods of Hong Kong's 20th-century history until its return to the Chinese fold. Especially interesting given recent events. ~G
Petersburg Tales: New Translation: Newly Translated and Annotated / Includes the Diary of a Madman (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Nikolai Gogol
£6.99 £6.64Absurd humour creeps the streets of the great St Petersburg in a choice pick of Gogol's short stories. ~B
The City & The City
China Mieville
£9.99When you are very familiar with a genre, it's a please to see it explored so confidently. ~G
The Shadow of the Wind: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 1
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
£10.99 £10.44Shows that there is still new ground to discover within the gothic genre. ~G
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
£9.99 £9.49Captures the intensity of childhood friendships, and explores the complications adulthood brings. ~G