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What do men run away from? Not war, not physical hardship, but the day-to-day emotional demands of impossible domestic...

Charles Highway is every mother’s worst nightmare.

Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed,...

Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards.

Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he...

'A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read it' Malcolm Bradbury

Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other.

The detective, and narrator, is...

From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to...

Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter and her husband in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous, constantly...

What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes...

What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, the Great Fire of...

It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. In a...

Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to...

Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers...

Tibor Fischer's hilarious first novel follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent...

Man Booker winner Anne Enright's first collection of short stories, reissued in a sumptuous new series style

Discover Man...

A powerful, heart-breaking story about tempting fate and living with the consequences

Arthur and Jake are brothers yet worlds...

'A beautiful debut novel... A real achievement... This is a wise and incisive first novel from a real talent' -...

A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.

Peregrine Roderick...

A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.

This title involves...

A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.

Frensic and Futtle is...

A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.

The landscape is...

A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.

When Miss Hazelstone...

'A very fine collection of connected short stories - funny, disturbing, ironic and bloody' - Annie Proulx, Daily...

'The best thing he has ever written' Observer


Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies.

‘A...

The enchanting story of a very remarkable dog from the author of the bestselling Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

‘In early 1998 I...

From the author of The Past, Tessa Hadley's first novel now rejacketed for a whole new audience

An improbable coincidence...

'Beautifully accomplished and memorable' The Times

Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the...

'A remarkable piece of work. A magnificent novel' Salman Rushdie, Observer

Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven...

A darkly powerful and blackly funny expose of the horrors of life as a junior doctor, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of...

One morning, Rebecca wakes up and realises she has turned into the wrong person.

Is she really this joyous and outgoing...

The collected stories by one of the greatest short-story writers in the world.

These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and...