Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a...

Instead of the book he is meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of...

‘It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.’

Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long...

I was a girl once, but not any more . . .

A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child...

Michael Frayn’s classic novel is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the...

Once upon a time, there was a rich merchant who had three daughters. The girls were just as clever as they were bella and none...

A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year’s sabbatical...

Carmel is missing – but doesn’t know she’s lost.

When sensitive, distracted eight-year-old Carmel becomes separated from her...

Sometimes – perhaps only for an instant – we fail to recognise a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus...

Felix Charlock is a world-famous inventor. His scientific genius draws him into the web of a sinister multinational corporation...

George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand...

Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee. Taking to the...

The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical...

A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow...

Shahid is a clean-cut student, trying to make an impression on his college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, who gives his spirits a lift...

The debut novel from award-winning author of Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia.

When twenty-two-year-old Gerty...

Pig Tales is a brilliant satirical novel about a stunning young woman working in a beauty ‘massage’ parlour. She enjoys...

August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors.

Against this...

From the internationally-renowned author of The Beach, a gripping mystery and stylistic tour de force that delves into the...

The vibrant energy of 1990s London. A year of passion and discovery. The anxiety and intensity of new love.

An...

Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances: this seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt,...

Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November...

Even when he leapt from the parapet he talked.

Ancient Egypt. The Prince is set to marry Pretty Flower, his sister, in the...

Dirty Havana Trilogy tells the story of Pedro Juan, an ex-radio journalist who wanders from one odd job to the next,...

That They May Face the Rising Sun was the last novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists.

Joe and Kate...

A group of English tourists have come ashore from their cruise ship to explore the island of Crete. This motley crew - including...

Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the...

Uncumber lives in a dystopian world where all humanity is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. The Insiders are...

Moving between the vibrant townships of the poor and the suburbs and country retreats of the rich, The Book of Memory is a...

Five runaways ride the bus from Bayelsa to a better life in a megacity.

They are unlikely allies - a private, a housewife, an...