Heywood Hill's Summer Reading List

Exploring a cloud-forest in Ecuador, lagoons in India, and the great Mutehekau in Quebec, celebrated nature writer Robert Macfarlane makes a passionate plea to save the world's rivers.

Now is the spring of our discontent? Such is the scene of this beloved 1922 novel. Bored with the mundanity of their lives in England, four semi-strangers embark on a life-changing girls’ trip when they rent a medieval castle in Italy for the month of April.

A brilliantly fictionalized narrative of the life of film director G.W. Pabst, The Director examines the desperate, determined struggle between art and power.

When expense accounts runneth over... Legendary editor Graydon Carter lays bare his most entertaining tales from the golden age of media.

This love story and coming-of-age classic brilliantly satirizes the stuffy and repressed social mores of Edwardian England.

You've seen the film – but have you read the book? Though seven decades have passed since this noir thriller was released, it's as fresh a take as ever on the dangers of striving.

First World War veteran Tom Birkin recalls a moment of refuge and release in the small pastoral town of Oxgodby in this short, pitch-perfect novel.

Long before meeting her eccentric, famous husband, Gala Dalí was already widely recognized as the mother of Surrealism.

This ambitious biography unravels the confounding arc of Gertrude Stein's artistic ambitions.

An endlessly fascinating story about the cubist collector, self-taught art historian, and colourful critic Douglas Cooper.