Two sisters buy a rambling house in the Welsh Marches. One decides to bring the neglected garden back to life with the help of an Albanian migrant living in the nearby village. The work allo... read more
A fictional portrait of the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - pilot, aristocrat and author of Le Petit Prince. Iturbe's last novel, The Librarian of Auschwitz, was a huge success.
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
The author of Fates and Furies turns her hand to historical fiction with a vivid recreation of the life of the C12th French poet Marie de France. LG follows Marie's journey through Eleanor o... 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.
Mary Jocelyn, who leads a quiet but happy life with her widowed father at Dedmayne Rectory, is thrown into emotional disarray by an unexpected love affair. First published in 1924, it was pi... read more
Calloo callay - another slim and gripping novel from la Moss, who is much admired at Sandoe's... A woman breaks quarantine for a breath of air but things don't go according to plan. A novel ... read more
Lucy Barton returns in ES's latest novel, as a chance encounter leads her to reconnect with her ex-husband William. A portrait of family, memory and lost futures.
Ambrose Bierce, Robert Aickman, Tove Jansson, Alexander Pushkin, Henry James, Emily Brontë et al - an anthology of stories and excerpts from around the world. A new addition to the attracti... read more
Although not well known in the UK, Lewis is one of the best conteporary US novelists. This, set on the coast of Maine, is a sort of parable of contemporary American society.
A mysterious philanthropist travels up and down a stretch of Canadian coast delivering books to people who live too far from libraries. This novella was first published in 1933.
Compassionate novel set in Cyprus and its civil war, before moving to contemporary London where a young woman tries to unearth her family's past and finds love, loss, displacement and hope.
The tale of a gloomy childhood in mid-west America, a miraculously happy marriage and a move to France to help the war effort: this provides a beautifully written and unforgettable descripti... 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.
His 2013 novel The Circle was an acute satire of the tech world and, in particular, Google. Now Eggers envisages a dystopian future in which the world's biggest search engine and e-commerce ... read more
A powerfully written novel about a sculptor facing the end of her life, sexual chemistry, confinement and the transformative power of art. The other actor (apart from her new lover) in the n... read more