A brilliant tale of lexicographers whose lives are influenced in surprising ways by mountweazels. (Mountweazel, noun: a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary or work of referenc... read more
Clever, wry debut in which a young woman gets through one single day; her work interrupted by quotidian jangles, her interior self navigating a recent traumatic experience. Witty and clever ... read more
An audacious debut in which a young woman unburdens herself, at length and in surprising detail, to a Dr Seligman. A stream of consciousness leavened by black humour.
Exuberant, foul, clever novel in which 'Villalobos' is kidnapped by a thug who wants him to persuade the daughter of a corrupt politician to fall in love with him.
An elderly woman in a home is losing her power of speech: a therapist delicately helps her to unburden herself of a secret... The dark horse of new French fiction.
From Bath in 1865 to Dublin and Borneo: a novel about transgressive relationships and a woman's sense of her own destiny being other than what convention dictates.
Tabucchi's paean to old Lisbon and to Fernando Pessoa is comic, elegiac, very clever, slightly surreal and hugely enjoyable. One of three new editions of his work.
A new edition of this magnificent, subtle novel of unlikely courage, frailty, love and betrayal in Lisbon, under Salazar's dictatorship. As Diana Athill wrote, reading it is an experience by... read more
The most popular of Szabo's books in her native Hungary, published for the first time in English. It forms a loose trilogy with 'The Door' and 'Katalin Street'.
A haunting and complex novel in which a British man discovers that his German grandfather fought on the Eastern Front, from a letter that he leaves on his death.
Parallel possible worlds spool from a German rocket strike in London in 1944: five children are killed but, in a feat of authorial engineering, are given futures nevertheless. A dazzling cel... read more
A novel based on letters from the 1930s between the pianist Vladimir Horowitz and a student, revealing a gay relationship that remained secret from everyone including VH's wife (Toscanini's ... read more
Friends are hard to find for Jon Swift, an aging journalist whose career is on the ropes. A chance encounter with an old friend from Tiananmen Square days leads to power games in China, with... read more
Global interests circle around the discoveries of an Iranian nuclear scientist at Oxford. A charming, divorced ex-journo is the man who unravels the mystery.