The teenage protagonist hears voices from the inanimate objects around him. Seeking refuge in a library, he finds a book that helps him to narrate his own life.
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
Having addressed Henry James in The Master, CT turns now to Thomas Mann: a tender portrayal of the contradictions of Mann's life - homosexual but father to six children; a staunch German pat... read more
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.
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
Nature, bereavement, oddness, optimism, philosophy, love, ethics, climate change and extra-planetary experiences... Powers is an outstanding writer and there's nothing gimmicky about his pro... read more
A swirling historical epic, published in India, which follows a quest for the essence of Sufism and the heady fragrance of ishq-e haqeeqi - love for the divine. From Afghanistan to Granada, ... read more
A 600-page behemoth of a novel, Crossroads is a cross-generational saga set in 1970s suburban Chicago. The paterfamilias is a pastor wondering whether to leave his failing marriage before hi... read more
The much-anticipated new novel from the author of A Gentleman in Moscow. Three ex-cons and one teenager attempt to make their way from Kansas to San Francisco. A paean to the American West o... read more
The Nobel Prize winner's new novel is set against the backdrop of the 1954 CIA-backed military coup against the putatively pro-communist Guatemalan government: a story of high politics, corr... read more
A 900-page epic from the Polish Nobel laureate. Biblical in scale and content, the book follows an C18th messiah called Jacob Frank who converts from Judaism to Islam and then to Catholicism... read more
The first novel in seven years - and we've heard it's wonderful - by the author of All The Light We Cannot See. It traverses centuries and planets, veering between the siege of Constantinopl... read more
Knausgaard's first novel since the completion of his My Struggle cycle. An unusually large star lights up the night sky in Norway, affecting the novel's characters in very different ways - s... read more
Set in the Gaeltacht, these stories by Ireland's greatest C20th Irish-language writer delve into the customs and hardships of Western Ireland's rural communities with empathy and quiet illum... 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