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
A translation of the novel which won the 2015 International Prize for Arabic fiction. It follows one man's turbulent life through Tunisian politics, from his student days to his career as a ... read more
An elegant novel which turns around a desperate bid to save a relationship: the couple decide that only by sharing their darkest secrets will their turbulent relationship be saved. It ends n... read more
A new novel from the author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog which relates a woman's journey to Japan to read her estranged father's will. Gradually, through meeting his friends and exploring... read more
Set in Florence and spanning three generations of women, this novel centres on the catastrophic floods of 1966 and the international volunteers - the 'angels of mud' - who helped.
Translated from French, this is a remarkable short novel about a disfigured man returning to his family from the war in 1918, and trying to make things work.