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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....

Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man...

‘What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most...

In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart...

In the heart of Mexico City a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about...

Jorge said he wasn’t coming back until I learned how to be a better wife . . . But before he drove off he gave me a new...

Winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel of the Year

In his classic debut novel, Gordon Burn takes Britain's biggest selling...

Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom – and loneliness – marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The...

Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm where he raises his...

Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.

Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to...

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...

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

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...

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

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