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A story of family tyranny and a son's escape from a dictatorial yet dull father and a bullied, submissive mother. Can a person ever be free of their past, of their upbringing? This gripping ... read more

The Anniversary

Andrea Bajani

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The long-awaited translation of ME's debut novel. A sniper in a war-torn city kills indiscriminately in search of the so-called 'perfect shot'. A powerful study in the banality of evil.

Perfecting the Shot

Mathias Enard

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Three longish short stories by the author of I Who Have Never Known Men: The Ardennes Forest, The Outcast and The Broom Cupboard. Harpman (1929-2012) was a Belgian-Jewish Holocaust survivor ... read more

We Were Forbidden

Jacqueline Harpman

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A rather dream-like tale of a man vanishing from a server farm in Norway and of another who wakes in a forest. Parallel lives or universes? A compelling short novel that plays with the mythi... read more

Air

Christian Kracht

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The Peruvian laureate's last novel, in which a journalist witnesses an ecstatic guitar performance of the vals criolla by a tubercular young virtuoso. Idealism soon plunges into obsession an... read more

I Give You My Silence

Mario Vargas Llosa

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The Faroese protagonist is many things - a wife, mother, grandmother and her mother's 'mother'. What room is left? Poignant, sometimes funny.

On the Other Side Is March

Sólrún Michelsen

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A professor of astrophysics returns on sabbatical to the rural landscape of her childhood. There she observes the starry Scandinavian sky and the eccentricities of her neighbours.

Range

Dorthe Nors

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A lost classic of mid-century German literature, retrieved from obscurity by Faber. A novel which pits the dehumanising drudgery of the corporate workplace against the rich, if ordinary, inn... read more

Illusions

Ruth Rehmann

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A legend of la nouvelle vague, Rohmer wrote this novel before he ever turned his hand to cinema. It appears now for the very first time in English, a tale of threatened innocence on the prec... read more

Elisabeth

Eric Rohmer

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Reissue of a classic from a titan of Japanese literature. Set at a hot spring high up in the mountains, it's a tale in which artist and muse combine in a refreshingly unconventional manner: ... read more

The Three-Cornered World

Natsume Soseki

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A capacious literary fantasy - what must Tokarczuk's dreams be like?

Primeval and Other Times

Olga Tokarczuk

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A man looks back to a formative summer in Tuscany, 1972, to his discovery of music, books, anxiety, love and the moment his childhood came to ended.

Black September

Sandro Veronesi

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Suspicion falls on a newcomer when a sawmill is razed by fire. First published in Swedish in 1977, this is the first publication in English of the great Mankell's second novel, set in the ye... read more

The Madman

Henning Mankell

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This puzzle box novel about a Japanese writer travelling in occupied Taiwan just won the International Booker. Deceptively sweet and simple, there are a series of meta-fictional flourishes l... read more

Taiwan Travelogue

Yang Shuang-zi

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The Beast in the Jungle & Other Tales

Henry James

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The Family Clause

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

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The Cat

Georges Simenon

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The Employees

Olga Ravn

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The Cat

Georges Simenon

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Tamas

Bhisham Sahni

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The Red Notebook

Antoine Laurain

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The Middle Years & Other Tales

Henry James

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The Good Nazi

Samir Machado de Machado

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... in which we are introduced to the strangers at the gate. What an amazing mind-trip this is!

On the Calculation of Volume vol IV

Solvej Balle

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A complex tale of assumed identity and the fragmentation of the self under occupation. Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel by the Palestinian author was writt... read more

A Mask the Colour of the Sky

Bassem Khandaqji

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Shades of Fellini haunt this comic novel, set in one Roman night, when a young journalist attempts to interview an elusive film director. Paradise or purgatory?

Paradiso

Michele Masneri

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A brilliant, unconventional novel about Albert Speer, the architect who so beguiled Hitler that he became his Minister for Armaments. In prison after Nuremberg, his apparent decency drew the... read more

You Are the Fuhrer’s Unrequited Love

Jean-Noel Orengo

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A beloved aunt fakes her death and disappears... By the author of Fresh Water for Flowers.

Tata

Valerie Perrin

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Seethaler's first novel, published now for the first time, is about Mahler returning from from New York by sea, ill and grieving for Alma.

The Last Movement

Robert Seethaler

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Third in the trilogy that began with The Country Of Others by the Moroccan/French winner of the Prix Goncourt.

I’ll Take the Fire

Leila Slimani

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A new edition from Everyman.

Nest of the Gentry & Virgin Soil

Ivan Turgenev

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The surreal disappearance of a troop of Red Army soldiers in a bathhouse, leaving only their boots and uniforms behind, is the starting point for Kurkov in the third book of his 'Kyiv Myster... read more

The Lost Soldiers

Andrey Kurkov

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Skulduggery and noir japes in Athens as a snappy trans sex worker falls foul of a far-right croup. The sleuth is a procrastinating writer who prefers his sofa for the mean streets of Athens.

Deepfake

Makis Malafekas

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A novel composed of the connected stories of five women who all come together in a garden. Published in Iran in 1990 but written in the 1970s, this is its first publication in English. Parsi... read more

Women Without Men

Shahrnush Parsipur

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A Chess Story

Stefan Zweig

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Last Comes the Raven

Italo Calvino

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