In "A Cock-Eyed Comedy," Father Trennes is like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a spirit of the age moving through several centuries of Spain's history. His most recent incarnation is as an Opus Dei religious leader in present-day Spain, whose conformity Goytisolo delightfully savages. A cast of real peop[...]

This detailed and comprehensive identification guide follows in the mould of Sylvia Warblers and Pipits and Wagtails. It primarily covers the genera Acrocephalus, Locustella, Cettia and Bradypterus, together with a few smaller related genera. To the uninitiated, these are the archetypal 'little brow[...]

On August 6 th 1989 , the day on which the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration, the body of a strangled transvestite is discovered in the humid undergrowth of the Havana Woods. He is wearing a beautiful red evening dress and the red ribbon with which he was asphyxiated is sti[...]

Quim Monzo is the foremost Catalan writer of his generation and has been translated into over a dozen languages. This is regarded by many as his greatest work. At once a dirty joke and a highbrow novel, a bawdy tale and an exquisite pastiche, it tells the bizarre story of Ramon Maria. Translated fro[...]