Not all are hidden by luxuriant, pointy moustaches... The painter's only novel is a baroque and decadent tale set in the 1930s, first published in 1944.
A strange and darkly comic novel about a young tennis coach, his pupil, a crumbling castle where towels behave in a sinister manner... This is the first time this modernist-gothic masterpiec... read more
A young farm lad falls asleep in a boat and drifts down the river: a week of liberated, pastoral bliss ensues. First published in 1945, this is the first new translation since the 1950s. By ... read more
A PhD student thinks she's identified the first female British artist, then discovers an error in her research. An Icelandic novella about ambition and untruth.