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Joyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her...

Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a...

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...

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...