In Piranesi you plunge into an alternative world through the journals of a character of such innocence you just want to hug him.

‘ “Where are you from?” Elif Shafak asked herself in a 2020 Vanity Fair article. “I am from multiple places. I come from memories and...

Leo the African, or Leo Africanus, is not a new book. It was first published in French in the nineteen-eighties and my British edition...