A group of international mercenary pilots in Uganda in the mid-1990s fly weapons across Africa, selling them to the highest bidder. A young Congolese cowherd joins them and finds himself in ... read more
A scientist's investigations into light and motion are used to develop ways of tracking workers' movements. The dizzying narrative encompasses an experimental sci-fi film, military drone tec... read more
A furniture salesman, who tries to keep to the straight and narrow with only the occasional foray into fencing a pilfered gewgaw for a cousin, finds himself drawn into a much bigger heist. A... read more
GJ's first novel in over two decades is set in C17th colonial Brazil and its last fugitive-slave settlement. She burst onto the literary scene in 1975 with the publication of Corregidora, a... read more
Athena, Circe, Penelope, Helen et al.: female characters and narrators are given centre stage in this fine reworking of the familiar. By the author of Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman ... read more
This electric new translation of Kleist's novella of 1810 reminds us why it was so admired by writers such as Rilke and Kafka. MH brilliantly renders the austere yet wild narrative about a C... read more
A finely-spun novel about a potter, of living, loving, fanaticism and creativity, allegory and myth. From a highly regarded and intelligent writer, also published by Christopher MacLehose.
A pair of achingly clever young women email each other about the state of the world. They are young, Irish, anxious and in love with unsuitable men. So far so Rooney. But this much-hyped thi... read more
The author is an artist, musician and poet. The fables are all his own, improbable and playful - a pair of cross-dressing vultures, a timorous elk, a parliament of quails, an irritable camel... read more
A lost roman-à-clef from the great French writer about a passionate and involved female friendship. Encompassing art, politics and love, this is its first publication in English.
A woman's past erupts in the present: a novel about courage and love from the great Israeli writer, author of See Under: Love and A Horse Walks Into a Bar among others.