Жанр "Современная зарубежная литература на английском"

Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when...

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern’s short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has...

Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back...

Based on a remarkable true story, Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid is a moving, inspiring novel of a life lived in hope.

Samia...

Madame Zero is a remarkable collection of dark, sensuous stories set in sometimes conflicting landscapes – rural, industrial,...

‘Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . . .‘

The explosion that detonates the...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain’s most accomplished...

In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and _____. They're the kind of men capable of...

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a...

Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him...

What if…?
A large wolf escapes its captors.
A cult leader breaks out of psychiatric care.
A disillusioned woman is forced to...

Stylish, riveting and appalling, GB84 is a shocking fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that...

In this new novel Gunter Grass examines a subject that has long been taboo – the sufferings of the Germans during the Second...

In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally...

Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a...

Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his ‘damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother’ Hugh, Theft: A...

One by One in the Darkness follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994,...

Instead of the book he is meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of...

When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen, and her...

‘It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.’

Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long...

I was a girl once, but not any more . . .

A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child...

Michael Frayn’s classic novel is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the...

Combe Island off the Cornish coast is a restful retreat for the rich and the powerful. But the peace of the island is violated...

Once upon a time, there was a rich merchant who had three daughters. The girls were just as clever as they were bella and none...

A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year’s sabbatical...

From award-winning and internationally bestselling author of Demon Copperhead and Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna is the...

Carmel is missing – but doesn’t know she’s lost.

When sensitive, distracted eight-year-old Carmel becomes separated from her...

From the internationally bestselling author of Lullaby, The Country of Others is perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante, Tracy...

How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we...

Sometimes – perhaps only for an instant – we fail to recognise a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus...