Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1 by Javier Marias

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1 by Javier MariasVolume one of Javier Marias's acclaimed and evocative 'novel in parts' Recently divorced, Jacques Deza moves from Madrid to London to start anew. At a party held by retired don, semi retired spy and old friend Sir Peter Wheeler, he meets the inscrutable Bertram Tupra. Tupra is impressed by Deza's talent for seeing through people and enlists him in a mysterious group. His mission is to observe an assortment of people including politicians, celebrities

along with key questions of conservation

As a savvy businesswoman

A haunting fable of art

Loosely fictionalised in 1923 in collaboration with journalist Edwin Lefevre

just know this: I may be killed soon

It is in Books IV and V of The Wealth of Nations that Adam Smith offers his considered response to the French Physiocrats

Meeting in an inn overlooking Katmandu

and the gravest of perils

is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the Indian scholar Vatsyayana

he encountered a story stranger and more dangerous than he ever imagined: a world of short sellers and whistleblowers

Daniel really does get the 7

naturalist Dr