A dazzling Gothic tale set in the Salpetriere asylum in 1885 and its annual ball, under the controlling and sinister hand of Dr Charcot. A startling insight into the treatment of women in th... read more
A Khartoum jazz band is invited to the US but it has long since broken up. Reformed by the son of one of the original musicians who snatches at the opportunity, the new Kamanga Kings set off... read more
Fascinating debut novel in which competing interests in a plot of rough land behind a Bangkok slum reveal much about contemporary Thailand. The author has reported extensively on Burma for m... read more
A woman moves through her lonely days in an Italian city: Lahiri's move to Rome a few years ago must inform this sensitive and observant novel. Written in Italian, the text is translated int... read more
The choices made by five women, all of whom experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall in their teens, and now grapple with different kinds of freedom. This has been a huge success in Germany.
Moves from art student life in Brussels to Lascaux; trompe l'oeil and the art of deceit. MdeK won the Wellcome Book Prize and was longlisted for the International Man Booker for 'Mend the Li... read more
Love, narcissism and our ideas of ourselves are gloriously and lyrically sent up in this absurd, moving and hilarious study of contemporary relationships. Kennard is better known for his poe... read more
Jergovic is a prominent Croatian novelist, poet and journalist. Here he explores his family's history through the C20th, using odd bits and pieces of family paraphernalia as spy-glasses to p... 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
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
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.
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'.
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.
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 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
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