A small Greek town on the coast is revisited by a grieving woman who reconnects with the friends and acquaintances she made there a decade earlier. A quiet but brilliant novel in which them... read more
frank: sonnets won the Pulitzer Prize when it was published in 2022. Astute, deft, magnaminous - and now published by Fitzcarraldo as part of their new poetry list.
A re-issue of McCarthy's brilliant memoir - so painful and unjust that Anita Brookner held that Jane Eyre had got away lightly in comparison. First published in 1957.
Rosa Luxemburg, Charlotte Salomon and Marilyn Monroe are Rose's first focus in this far-sighted and tightly-reasoned exploration of women's lives. Feminism at its most elegant and intelligen... read more
A century after Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Tokarczuk revisits the theme of the sanitorium: she adds irritable (male) denizens, drinking deep from the cup of dudgeon, and a number of sinis... read more
One of ten clothbound editions that this excellent publisher has produced to celebrate their first decade. A run of one thousand copies, with signed and numbered book plates.
This Swedish 'cult' book, first published in 1987, has a Borghesian lustre with its purported remnants of a lost work, spirals and labyrinths, the search for knowledge and the draw of the ir... read more
A memoir of a love affair, a meditation on what is enrapturing and the desire to photograph it, and to write. With a few photographs by her former lover.
Reflections on fatherhood and the magical way that bringing up children alters our experience of time and erodes self-absorption. This work floats in a gentle ecstasy above the Fitzcarraldon... read more
Her memoir of running a small cinema in rural Hungary, the transformative magic of communal yet private experience in a place stale with resignation and nostalgia.
In 1942, aged 24, the great and defiant Canetti began to write notes, aphorisms and meditations about death - he was dead against it - and, by extension, about and for life; he only stopped... read more
The season's most arresting title? Ambitious and witty, this novel about a student researching rural life in the marshlands of western France is another fruit of Enard's wildly leaping imag... read more
A strange and darkly comic novel about a young tennis coach, his pupil, a crumbling castle where towels behave in a sinister manner... This is the first time this modernist-gothic masterpiec... read more
AZ conjures lives, relationships, families, political upheavals in just a few paragraphs. This clever, tranquil novella begins with a professor telling his stepdaughter a bedtime story about... read more