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Selected and with a New Introduction by Tessa Hadley

A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A...

On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter, Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

A youthful tale of geriatric...

'Marvellously, insanely readable... Highsmith has done it again' The Times

"There's no such thing as a perfect murder......

What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes...

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. "

Mr Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, is a lazy drunk. The...

The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician.

This is the autobiography...

Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda,...

Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder – a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris Soir –...

Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom:...

'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday Telegraph

Faculty wife Emily...

'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of Books

Alan has changed because he's...

'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday Times

Just married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul...

'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' Guardian...

Eighteen-year old orphan Andrea moves to battle-scarred Barcelona to take up a scholarship at the university. But staying with...

Rebecca Solnit retells 'Cinderella'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories.

'She looked...

When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts...

‘Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days’

Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most...

‘Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together’

Could...

‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete...

'Masterful and beautifully written. Riveting and compellingly authentic. Grips you like a vice from the first page and never lets...

A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.

'Julio Cortazar is...

‘No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times’ George Steiner

After an embarrassing sexual misadventure...

A beautiful new edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein

Includes A Cultural History of Frankenstein's...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American...

This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood.

The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with...

When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice...

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring...

Colin Thurbon’s beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious...