A collection of thirty interconnected stories, inspired by Bach's Goldberg Variations, is narrated by an English Jewish writer reading to an eighteenth-century country gentleman and offers a philosophical reflection on such topics as madness, marital discord, a poetic competition at the court of Geo[...]

AFTER is haunted by a traumatic memory. A woman re-enters the life of a man after fifteen years - for vengeance? for reconciliation? Or is her return only imagined? Gabriel Josipovici's taut novel draws the reader deep into a relationship, the volatile mix of guilt, memory and desire. Tension builds[...]

In a house in a quiet street in North London, Helena struggles with her self-appointed task of writing a book about the reclusive American artist Joseph Cornell. At the same time she dreams and thinks about her sister Alice working in an orphanage in Chechnya.[...]