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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...

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...

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

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

The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation – or...

Felix Charlock is a world-famous inventor. His scientific genius draws him into the web of a sinister multinational corporation...

As a child, Mevlut always felt like he was missing out. When he moves to Istanbul – ‘the centre of the world’ – he is immediately...

Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee. Taking to the...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and...

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven...

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old...

Shahid is a clean-cut student, trying to make an impression on his college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, who gives his spirits a lift...

Eager to clean up his act after his troubled early twenties, Owen has returned to Kentucky to take a job as a groundskeeper at a...

The vibrant energy of 1990s London. A year of passion and discovery. The anxiety and intensity of new love.

An...

Plague is not the only killer - an historical epic of murder and mystery, myth-making and nation-building, from the winner of the...

'By the time Nashe understood what was happening to him, he was past the point of wanting it to end . . .'

Paul Auster fuses...

Norman Miller used to be one of Fleet Street's finest. Now he's a middle-aged, burned-out hack with a gift for the sensational...

Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old...

The bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty-first-century W. G. Sebald.

A haunting novel about national...

One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I...