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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...
In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of...
In Bangkok, a plot of land behind a city slum resonates with the hopes, dreams and fears of the local community. For Comrade...
Gustavo ‘Highway’ Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few...
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...
In 2011, Mr. Watanabe, a Japanese electronics executive, is in Tokyo when the earthquake that precedes the Fukushima nuclear...
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...
Pol suffers from a very rare hormonal disorder that ages him erratically; when he was thirteen, his body aged ten years...
Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a...
One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of San Cristobal. Aged between nine and thirteen, the children are...
‘Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordinary, an entirely...
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...
The Emperor’s Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the...
Dinslaken, Germany. July 1945. The war is over, and the Allied forces are beginning to assess the damage. Among them is a war...
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...
Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all...
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