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Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years...

The hugely influential book that set Ma Jian on the road to exile from China.

'Outstanding' Irish Times

A Chinese writer...

Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy bachelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding...

One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from...

For the inhabitants of the damp little Irish town of Ballinacroagh, the repertoire of gastronomic delights has never extended...

Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Georgy bears her fate...

Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.

A gang war is raging through the dark...

A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.

Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work....

In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic...

A Husband. A Wife. Their Secret

Joe and Joan Castleman are en route to Helsinki. Joe is thinking about the prestigious...

Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. As he...

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where...

'The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John Updike

With his...

In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to...

One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's...

Saturday, February 15, 2003.

Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a...

'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain......

'Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age' Daily...

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other.

The moment she walked into his...

When Klara appears in Paris, two months after the end of the war and years after her disappearance into Auschwitz, her best...

Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion - previously head porter, now elevated to Master - is showing signs of...

Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he...

Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble.

Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill...

Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed....

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort...

For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day...

Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every...

A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker

Here John Turner was cast away in...

Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of...

Mike Engleby has a secret...

This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy in the seventies who wins a place at an...