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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Brighton, 1968: a film producer, a novelist and an actress find their private lives encroaching into their public worlds. Pressures build on the trio...
Connecting with her sequence 'Gilead', 'Home' and 'Lila', this new novel concerns the family's errant son Jack, the intelligent, drunk, courteous, poetry-loving, foolish ne'er-do-well. Aspir... read more
From Bath in 1865 to Dublin and Borneo: a novel about transgressive relationships and a woman's sense of her own destiny being other than what convention dictates.
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
This new novel from the author of The Neapolitan Quartet is also set in Naples, and was superbly reviewed in Italy.
NB Publication of this book has been delayed until 1st September. Pub... 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 gorgeous, rich, magnificent imagining of a 1960s pop group, which even nods at Sandoe's in its plethora of walk-on parts (Bowie, Zappa...). Sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll, wit, linguistic jinx... read more
Reading this 'novel' is like going to stay with an old uncle, one with lots of stories to tell but nobody to tell them to. Little Keith - as Hitchens used to call Amis - has been waiting for... 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