A wonderful novel moving between the Shah's Iran, Bahrain and England, in which the murky origins of an English family's wealth emerge following the disappearance of a Cambridge student in E... read more
An artist joins an island community of impoverished like-minded souls. When the island's owner pushes up the rent, a conflict ensues in which the dispossessed protest against gentrification.
A powerful exploration of illicit desire, in which a 17-year-old girl has a crush on a friend of her parents that turns on some dark events of 24 years previously.
Soon after her husband leaves her, Pru goes to a friend's funeral - but it's the wrong one. She has such fun that she buys a black dress and starts attending strangers' funerals quite delibe... read more
Petterson has not been kind to his protagonist, removing from him by traumatic means his wife, three daughters, parents and brothers. It is no surprise that he is pole-axed by grief; will Pe... read more
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
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.
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
A dizzying and quietly surreal novel of South London life narrated through an interlinked series of episodic character studies. Ridgway's neo-Beckettian prose is never less than needle sharp... read more
This year's slim winner of the International Booker Prize is stunningly brilliant. Set during the Great War and narrated by a Senegalese soldier fighting for France on the Western Front, it ... read more
Two cadres in China's Cultural Revolution, drunk on politics and their own affair, are discovered. By the author of 'Three Brothers: Memories of My Family', 'Lenin's Kisses', 'The Day the Su... read more
A lyrical new novel from the author of 'The Year of the Runaways' explores family history, cultural estrangement, sequestration and freedom, passion and its consequences.
Funny and intricate debut novel by the acclaimed poet gives London's literary scene an exhilarating spin in a barrel - plagiarism, stolen poems, falls from grace and attempts to right wrongs... read more
Human fragility and the consequences that ripple outwards when an Antarctic expedition goes wrong. A spare, acutely imagined novel by the author of 'Reservoir 13'.
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