Cities is a book of travels, from Basel to Budapest, Tampico to Tiblisi and from the child in war...

Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may ...

Beginning in present-day St Petersburg, The Russian Jerusalem explores the landscape of twentieth...

In this definitive biography of the legendary Russian poet, Elaine Feinstein draws on a wealth of...

Opening with a death in winter, this is a tender work of mourning which is wonderfully moving but...

Muriel Spark's autobiography traces how one of the great modern writers in English emerged. Begin...

Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by trage...

Elaine Feinstein's poems are the harvest of a lifetime in literature. This selection, made by the...

Elaine Feinstein has always written with most intensity about people. In this book, she remembers...

'Feinstein's triumph is to write so well that she makes Lena's predicament not onl...

A prolific author of novels, poetry collections, plays, biographies and translations, Elaine Fein...

Marina Tsvetaeva is among the great European poets of the twentieth century. With Anna Akhmatova,...