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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...

In New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport,...

A man is thrown out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn’t...

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...

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...

By an author described by critics as ‘the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop’. Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating...

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...

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...

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...

A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly...

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe’s biggest issue

Richard has spent his life as a university...

Jeanne moves from room to room. In the anonymous hotel bedrooms of Paris – Hotel Agate, Hotel Prince Albert, Hotel Prince...

Frances is a young graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and...

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...

Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of ’97. His parents are psychologists, his mom a famous author in the field....