In J. L. Carr’s deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby

THE STORY: Natalya Petrovna, once wooed and won over by the rich landowner Arkady Sergeyevich, has now suffered a long and frustrating marriage. She has taken c

THE STORY: The place is the country estate of the Islayevs, a wealth Russian family, the time the middle of the nineteenth century. It is summer, and the lives

Artist and survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin, has been employed to carry out restoration work on a Medieval mural discovered in a church in the small

A fresh interpretation of Turgenev's comedy about the calamitous effects of love.