The Russian Soul: Selections from A Writers Diary by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Introduced by Rosamund Bartlett (Notting Hill Editions)

The Russian Soul: Selections from A Writers Diary by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Introduced by Rosamund Bartlett (Notting Hill Editions)New Hardback A new anthology of Dostoevsky's remarkable work 'A Writer's Diary'. A voluminous and variegated miscellany in which the celebrated author spoke to his readers about issues concerning Russia, it is a work as eerily prescient of global preoccupations in the twenty first century as it is frequently overlooked. Dostoevsky's Writer's Diary was also his creative laboratory, and proves to be a source of fundamental importance in understanding

but few will have heard of Aemilia Lanyer

lion's mane

Frida Kahlo was an amputee in the last part of her life

The variety is overwhelming

Marchand depicts

year after year

of the bizarre discoveries and improbable achievements of its pioneers

with superb colour illustration throughout

dyed edges

Kerri Andrews' Way Makers is the first anthology of women's writing about walking

not linear

shows that this reputation is richly deserved