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Sometimes the choice is too hard to bear...

Nikki Grant is only twenty-one when she discovers she's pregnant. Despite her...

Four very different women have made their way from Africa to Brussels. They have come to claim for themselves the riches they...

As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now...

When the Khurana boys and their friend Mansoor set out for one of Delhi's markets, disaster strikes without warning. A 'small'...

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa.

A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she...

There's something wrong next door. At least, that's what neighbors Howie Jeffries and Emily Phane both think. Since his daughter...

An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits,...

First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winner's stories including those from her most recent hardback 'Taking...

Blunt, brutal, but infused with a deep sympathy, Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and hilarious collection of stories set in a tiny...

The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the...

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out...

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But...

Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house....

At the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are...

Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead....

'Wickedly good' John Updike

In a small Southern town, shy teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram...

France. A skint, clapped-out British philosopher meets an incompetent, freshly released, one-armed, armed robber. The Thought...

There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane.
Why did a Hercules...

An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by...

Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman - incontinent and impotent - comes back to New York, the...

Paul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life-...

Willie Upton returns to her ancestral home of Templeton, New York after a disastrous affair with her married archaeology...

The bestselling novel from the author of The Snakes, The Outcast is a powerful portrait of unexpected love and treacherous...

Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the...

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in...

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this...

Roddy Doyle's first ever collection of stories.

For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann,...

Dazzlingly inventive and utterly original, All Shall Be Well... is a surprise and a delight.

Meet Burt Hecker, aka Eckbert...

A moving tale of isolation, the painful loss of innocence and a eulogy for the traditional ways of life gone forever.

In 1948,...

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and Martin Amis's celebrated first novel.

Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and...