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.
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
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
Three dark-skinned bodies wash up on the beach of a Mediterranean island. The attempts of the islanders to hush up the implications are upset by the arrival of a detective, who unpicks their... read more
Cars, guns, computers etc have stopped working. Safe in rural Maine, the protagonists are visited by an old acquaintance in a retro-fitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. It can'... read more
The brilliant Ukrainian novelist who gave us 'Death and the Penguin' and 'The Bickford Fuse' has turned now to a bee-keeper in no-man's land to reflect the conflicts in his country.
The story of the protagonist is told from several points of view by different generations. Against the backdrop of Germany's imperial ambitions in Africa and Arctic explorations, through the... read more
As a war photographer and his driver travel through Germany in late 1945, it becomes apparent that they have different reasons for wanting to be there.
On a Greek island in 1977, Calista finds herself working for Billy Wilder on a film. His career is on the wane, and she's a young woman with a lot to learn...
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
Brighton, 1968: a film producer, a novelist and an actress find their private lives encroaching into their public worlds. Pressures build on the trio...