Set in Siberia in the 1970s, the adult narrator looks back on his friendship with an Armenian boy. Other slim but lyrically powerful novels by this great Russian/French novelist include Test... read more
A dystopian but not unhopeful rollercoaster about civilisation and where the human race is headed. By the best-selling author whose debut The Power won the Women's Prize a few years ago.
As six astronauts orbit the earth in a space station, collecting scientific data, their attention is tugged t by distant human events and relationships. Beautifully written, this is an affec... read more
This excellent author has set his new novel in Roman Britain: a tribal princess given away as part of a peace treaty flees through Wales with her Roman lover.
A Finnish picaresque novel, about a man who abandons his conventional life when he pursues an injured hare into the forest. First published in 1975 and now a classic.