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
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 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.
Three friends move between London, Cap d'Antibes and a re-wilded corner of Sussex. This new departure explores determinism, freedom and the stories we tell to survive.
A beguiling, masterful novel in which village's dead recount the defining moments or aspects of their lives. By the author of 'A Whole Life' and 'The Tobacconist'.
SM's first novel, published here for the first time, takes place in a school for girls - a microcosm that foreshadows the Rwandan genocide fifteen years later. The author's light touch is an... read more
The Booker-shortlisted author turns to contemporary Soho and the fall-out from property redevelopment. With a genius cast of characters, a pub called the Aphra Behn and very funny in the mid... read more
In the fens of East Anglia, a pious community survives amidst ecological apocalypse. The final instalment of the Buckmaster trilogy - Kingsnorth has steered an epic narrative across grand, e... read more
The Jewish residents of a Manhattan retirement home put on a frenzied production of Hamlet. Published to critical acclaim in 1994, Isler's tale of geriatric theatrics probes, with steady, da... read more
Scant information has been vouchsafed about Sir Kazuo's forthcoming novel, but we're told it concerns an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities. Put not your trust in hum... read more
A Japanese girl stays with her lover's family in Norfolk but the resurfacing of a violent trauma interrupts her stay. Haunting, atmospheric prose from the author of 'Land of the Living'.
A novel of resilience and survival by the author of 'Homegoing': a young woman tries to outwit her family's multiple traumas. Psychological complexities handled with artistry.
A strange and powerful novel of familial love and the boundary between living and dying, blurred by magical realism and vanishings. From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'The Narrow Road t... read more
A re-issue of this strange tragi-comic tale (1954) in which an English village is flooded first by water, then by suicides. All observed by two sisters whose grandmother wields an enormous ... read more
Communist Bucharest is submerged into a dizzying landscape of magical reveries and strange characters... First UK publication of this phantasmagorical classic from 1989.
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For flâneurs and cinephiles: at an Italian film festival a celebrated director meets a local woman who offers to guide him round the city. Seductive, cinematic, with echoes of Andre Aciman.