Frances Partridge

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

This short, witty novel was written in 1932 by a niece of Lytton Strachey and first published by The Hogarth Press.

The President

Guatemalan diplomat and writer Miguel Angel Asturias (1899–1974) began this award-winning work while still a law student. It is a story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed Latin American country usual