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
Another in this terrific series that has already included anthologies from Japan and Italy. Stories from the C19th to the present chosen by the greatest living translator of Spanish literatu... read more
A new addition to the Everyman series of short pieces and stories, nattily decked out with striped spines. Dante, Ficino, Vasari, Smollet, Rilke, Eliot, Origo, Rushdie and many more.
General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state. Sound familiar? From the author of 'The Yacoubian Building'.
Another re-issue after the success of 'Orlando King' last year: Cynthia Weston, married to a cabinet minister and overshadowed by WWI, is falling for her nephew by marriage.
This new novel is as cool, dry, rich and perfect as many fans of the author of the Outline trilogy have come to expect. A middle-aged woman invites a famous artist to stay at the place in t... read more
The author is Faroese-Danish; her novel is about a return to the Faroes by someone who has never been there but "is" Faroese. Considers the idea of home, exile, belonging... We include it be... read more