Maryam’s Diener’s latest novel BEYOND BLACK THERE IS NO COLOUR is published on 27 February. With the rise of mainstream feminist-oriented publishing and the debate around fourth-wave feminism being very much in the zeitgeist, the time is right to (re)introduce the Irani

Last night Quartet Books launched Beyond Black There Is No Colour, Maryam Diener’s wonderful exploration of the life of legendary Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad. At Thomas Heneage’s renowned bookshop, Chairman of Quartet Naim Attallah paid tribute to Maryam with the fo

Only the Dead: A Levantine Tragedy by T. J. Gorton

PB • 216x138mm (with flaps) • £12 • Fiction (F) • 9780704374607 • £14 • Quartet Books

Only the Dead: A Levantine Tragedy is also, by chance, the creation of an American with long experience of the language, life and

Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood

Jan Marsh                                                                                         

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During the 1990s one of my secretary’s, Lucy Wastnage, came with me from Namara House as I moved into my new Asprey offices above Garrard in Regent Street… continue

The Enigma of Leni Riefenstahl

This week’s review in the Times Literary Supplement of A Scribbler in Soho reminded me of the time Bron Waugh approached Hugh Trevor Roper to try to persuade him to do a review of my fourth collection of interviews, More of a Certain Age, for the Literary Review.

November 7, 2019

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