The Six Walls of Life
Nina Burton
From the 2016 August Prize for Non-Fiction winner comes a beguiling and in many ways exceptional nature memoir, an homage to the natural world around us.What begins with a renovation of Nina Burton’s summer cottage, swiftly turns into an exploration…
The Gutenberg Galaxy Nova
Nina Burton
NONFICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR – WINNER OF THE 2016 AUGUST PRIZEThe fate of humanism told through the life of the 16th century literary star Erasmus of Rotterdam. In the time of Gutenberg’s great printing innovation, and the birth of free media, Erasmu…
The Wounded Diva
Karin Johannisson
What is madness? Or rather, what does female madness look like, what does it entail, how is it presented? We are all familiar with the likes of schizophrenia, hysteria and paranoia, but do we really know anything about how those diagnosed with these…
