The murderer from The Book of Evidence is released from prison and enters the troubled world of the Godleys, whom we met in Infinities. Tricksy (of course) and brilliant.
New translation of the 1936 bestselling Austrian novella in which a cavalry officer rides through Russian guns into a world of enchanted love... With a foreword, rather surprisingly, by Patt... read more
A long novel in which an artist watches versions of himself slip away into alcohol and loneliness. (Previously published as three separate paperbacks).
75 years of Englishness in this state-of-the-nation tale, passed through Coe's comic and prismatic imagination. Like the protagonist of his new novel, Coe was born and brought up near the Bo... read more
Reymont was a Polish novelist who won the Nobel prize in 1924; this is his magnum opus, an epic of nearly 1000 pages set in the C19th, about a small Polish village. At its centre are a weal... read more
Two families tangled in a story of forbidden love, from the Georgian author (who writes in German) of the bestselling The Eighth Life. This is considerably shorter than that first, excellent... read more
In Regency England, a girl has the gift of predicting the weather. In order to move freely, she disguises herself as a man - which becomes problematic when she falls in love.
Flemish collaboration in WW2, by the author of War and Turpentine, who bought an old house in Ghent only to discover, after twenty years, that a previous occupant was an SS officer. Hertmans... read more
The long struggle for Kurdish identity is poured into these twelve specially commissioned short stories in which the authors conjure several possible futures.
Born in Austrian Galicia in what is now Ukraine, Schulz is one of the great Eastern European writers of the C20th. Sadly - and oddly - he has been out of print for several years; we are ther... read more
A novel about the harrowing life of the great Russian poetess. She was involved with both Pasternak and Rilke; her daughter died in the Moscow famine; her husband was executed; and she herse... read more