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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...

Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century – an ordinary man in extraordinary...

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

Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance...

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

Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a...

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...

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In Stasiland,...

It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, twenty years old, a hairdresser from Soho, sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and...

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...

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, ‘Sensei’,...

Three bears.

The first, a diligent memoirist whose unlikely success forces her to flee Soviet Russia.

The second, her...

A spectacularly revealing and harrowing portrait of ordinary lives in the world’s least ordinary country, North Korea

North...

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...

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. As youths, she and her cousin Yuu spent the summers in the wild Nagano mountains, hoping for...

Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let...

New York, 2000.
Kate and Ben meet at a party and immediately fall in love. It is the first year of the new millennium, the first...

Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend’s corpse, a...