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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...
This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores...
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...
Six young people meet on an archaeological dig in a remote corner of Greenland. Excavating the unsettling remains of a Norse...
Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with...
The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. It addresses the big questions of corporate life, like: Why does one shoelace...
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...
This novella, one of the most haunting things that Joseph Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the year the author died....
By an author described by critics as ‘the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop’. Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating...
Birnam Wood is on the move…
A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of...
In 2011, Mr. Watanabe, a Japanese electronics executive, is in Tokyo when the earthquake that precedes the Fukushima nuclear...
After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy coastal town. Mired in her grief, Mara's...
Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In...
Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought...
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...
Set during the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta...
Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His sister, Ajany, and their father...
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...
They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation.
They used to be young,...
‘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...
One Sunday morning, a mysterious silent figure is found sleeping in a church in an unnamed American town. The congregants call...
Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a...
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