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'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of Books

Alan has changed because he's...

'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday Times

Just married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul...

'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' Guardian...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American...

This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood.

The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with...

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some...

Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric,...

A charming and clever account of one woman’s exploration of love, language and identity.

Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as...

Joseph Heller's other masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream what Catch-22 did...

'Extraordinarily mature - technically as well as emotionally' Sunday Times

Arthur Machin's life changes when he is picked for...

'If you are looking for an intellectual and artistic honesty, a patient thoughtfulness and detailed insight into other...

Discover the classic, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel from one of India's finest ever writers.

To the family living in the...

The final novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his...

H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for...

Enjoy Helen Simpson's sharply funny, humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of motherhood in this perfect Mother's Day...

Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an...

Salman Rushdie, a self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with...

Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads.

How to be a good...

Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the...

‘A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power’ Times Literary Supplement

From his prison cell, Antonio...

'A fine and powerful piece of work… Dark, at times cryptic, and hugely energetic' Irish Times

"No!" is the first word of this...

‘Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide…...

'While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz...

Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and...

This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family – poor, landless peasants not unlike the...

For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for a Hapsburg...

Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of...

An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.

Early this...

In his first collection, George Saunders' vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get. He takes us on a trip...

Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of...