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Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons...

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs....

R... , Эме...

Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English...

In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish...

Boll... , Aichinger...

Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form...

Vonnegut's riotous urban fairytale about the various fiascos of the Nixon years - a firm fan favourite

Walter J. Starbuck's...

Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped...

A party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly...

A village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and...

Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate...

Harry is a black and white dog who hates having a bath - so when he sees his owner with the dredded bath, he runs away. But in...

When eccentric Professor Dupont tries to track down his troupe of brightly-coloured cockatoos, they're always just one step ahead...

'And if Ferdinand decides to make
a chocolate fudge banana cake
What do we do? For goodness sake!
We All Join In!'

This...

Fima, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a gynaecology clinic. A preposterous, yet curiously attractive figure, he spends...

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything.

The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception....

When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a...

Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in...

Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his...

A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the...

The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a...

Some get all the luck - but not Eugene Debs Hartke. Ex-Vietnam vet, ex-college professor, and now a TB-stricken inmate at...

1969 was a year of rising tension, violence and change for the people of Northern Ireland. Rioting in Derry's Bogside led to the...

Manhattan has become the Island of Death.

The former President of the United States stands barefoot in a purple toga around a...

After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in...

A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and...

'Black satire of the highest polish' Guardian

Whilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Campbell Jr...

Unto Death contains two beautiful short novels linked by death and destruction.

Crusade is set in 1096 - a year of sinister...

As the Germans advance into Poland in 1939, Elisha Pomeranz, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker, escapes into the wintry...

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the...

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.

Billy Pilgrim – hapless...