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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...

From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic 'prehistory', Bothwell shows us the Universe as...

Vacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Newsweek‘s list of dying American cities. According to the developers, however,...

‘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...

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

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters,...

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

Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something...

In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the...

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,...

Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century upbringing set in the atmospheric...

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...

Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with...

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...

I’m a Fan tells the story of an unnamed narrator’s involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and...

Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano’s thrift store, there are treasures to...

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

Twelve-year-old Robert hates his maths teacher: he sets his class boring problems and won’t let them use their calculators. Then...

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

Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed...

Her father died instantly, her mother in the hospital.

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