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Throughout Proust’s life, nine of his short stories remained unseen – the writer never...

From an award-winning Scottish poet, an unforgettable novel about memory and radical forgiveness

How far would you go to...

‘He had never married and had never been with one woman for long; he had always remained a collector of first times.’

Edward...

Four strangers from around the world arrive in India for a wedding. Together, they climb a mountain - but will they see the same...

The stories in The Safety of Objects are both bizarre and believable, very funny but also frightening and sad. A girl's blonde...

Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past...

The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of...

‘Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally...

In New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport,...

District Attorney Varga is shot dead while picking a sprig of jasmine. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Is this...

A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality...

A blackly comic epic – a voyage through small-town America, and through the interior life of its most neurotic mailman. Albert...

When Wolf's recently-estranged wife Miriam dies from cancer, his entire world is turned upside down. Wolf and his daughter, Ruth,...

Margit is at the point in life when things should have cohered. She's married, she's got a degree, she's got friends who throw...

In this powerful collection, Janice Galloway takes on David Lodge’s assertion that ‘literature is mostly about having sex and not...

In England half a century ago, well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life. Some things are not to be...

By an author described by critics as ‘the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop’. Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating...

Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In...

Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a...

Her father died instantly, her mother in the hospital.

She has learned to say this flatly and without emotion, the way she...

Pol suffers from a very rare hormonal disorder that ages him erratically; when he was thirteen, his body aged ten years...

On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor; she...

Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a kayak, his memory of who he...

Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and a...

A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly...

A young woman, Violet, lies in a hospital bed in the closing days of the war. Her pregnancy is over and she is no longer able to...

Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now...

Frances is a young graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and...

From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine – meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world

In the remote...

Gonzalo is a frustrated would-be poet in a city full of poets; poets lurk in every bookshop, prop up every bar, ready to debate...