The narrator, an undercover agent in her mid-thirties, has been sent to spy on a group of eco-activists in France. A wry, sleuthing novel by the author of The Mars Room.
In the third book of this remarkable sequence, the Greeks sail for home after a decade of war, leaving Troy a wasteland, and taking with them the captive Trojan women.
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.
A lesbian couple - one of whom is an egotistical, bullying narcissist - decide to have children. The novel turns on what happens when the decent one finally determines to leave, taking at le... read more
A handful of stories about five women whose recent experiences of difficult or painful events are leavened by life-enhancing - even life-altering - moments.
This powerful story is set in 1851 in the Arctic: a Lutheran minister's Sami convert has a son who inconveniently has a love affair with the minister's daughter.
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
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
The passage of time and unseen overlaps echo back and forth in the lives of two couples living at different times in one Parisian flat. By the author of Flaneuse: Women Walk the City.
A novel (Tatting, 1957) in which a just-married young couple go to Cornwall where the inhabitants are definitely odd, and a group of short stories about the complexities of love and sex (Man... read more
It has been raining - constantly - for years; in a city that is largely submerged, three sisters contend with a sinister legacy. Tender, spooky, apocalyptic.
Reminiscent of Süskind's Perfume or Andrew Miller's Ingenious Pain, this is set in C18th France and involves a physical prodigy. In this case, it is his ability to eat... By the author of T... read more