Another huge novel from the author of City On Fire. A teenage girl and her father navigate relationships, addiction and other threats to serenity in New York.
A reissue of one of Gallant's two novels: a mother and daughter wander from Venice to Cannes to Paris. Superficially glamorous, their lives are in fact constricted, their physical displaceme... read more
A woman approaches a girl on a park bench in Mexico, saying that she recognises her: what follows leads movingly into the girl's relationship with her mother...Desai has been shortlisted for... read more
Gloriously funny memoir by a Minnesotan food writer about moving to an unpretentious village in the Languedoc with his wife and two aghast children. Hoffman has previously won the James Bear... read more
Balkan transhumance: in her fourth book on life in the Balkans, Kassabova lives and travels with the Karakachan, a small group of Greek-speaking nomadic pastoralists in the Pirin mountains.
A prequel to his bestselling The Partisan, set at the start of the Cold War, when Agent Greta has to find the daughter of a partisan general in the postwar chaos.
The story of the author's 25-year search for 'Agent Piccadilly' - the man who murdered Georgi Markov with a poisoned umbrella on Westminster Bridge in 1978.