The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. 

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. 

Kundera’s essay has been written like a novel. In the course of nine separate sections, the same characters meet and cross paths with each other.

In a moment of historic threat and uncertainty in mainland Europe, this collection, makes the case for the ‘small countries’ of Central Europe.

In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as ‘an art born of the laughter of God’.

Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism-that’s The Festival of Insignificance.

Reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of Rushdie’s masterpiece, this edition carries a new introduction written for the occasion