In the burning attic of a Spanish palace, 42 copper engravings - a deaf artist's gift to a young Duchess - melt to a bubbled lump. Many years later, these metal images are recreated, the story they told reconstructed through the memory of an unusual ...
Niall Duthie's triumphant third novel: a pillow book (designed to be read in ten-minute stretches before bed) about the nature of perception in the twentieth century Lobster Moth is two stories: that of a lepidopterist, Robert Gilmerton, a Scottish s...