Author: Jay Parini

LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEIn frantic flight from the Vietnam War, Jay Parini leaves the United States for Scotland. There, through unli...

Herman had often walked these streets, eyeing the forest of tall ships, their blackened strakes handsomely curved, masts like crosses, empty of sai...

LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEIn this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir...

There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream . . .Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant min...