The stories in The Safety of Objects are both bizarre and believable, very funny but also frightening and sad. A girl's blonde...

In 1940, Helene, young, naive, and recently married, waves goodbye to her husband, who has enlisted in the British army. Her...

In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall. He is sailing for the Summer Isles, a...

Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past...

The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of...

‘Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally...

In New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport,...

District Attorney Varga is shot dead while picking a sprig of jasmine. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Is this...

In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of...

A man is thrown out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn’t...

Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu’s reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young...

In Bangkok, a plot of land behind a city slum resonates with the hopes, dreams and fears of the local community. For Comrade...

The expression 'Sicilian uncle' has the same sense in Italian as 'Dutch uncle' does in English, but with sinister overtones of...

In January 1945, the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their...

Gustavo ‘Highway’ Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few...

A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality...

Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something...

This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores...

A blackly comic epic – a voyage through small-town America, and through the interior life of its most neurotic mailman. Albert...

When Wolf's recently-estranged wife Miriam dies from cancer, his entire world is turned upside down. Wolf and his daughter, Ruth,...

Margit is at the point in life when things should have cohered. She's married, she's got a degree, she's got friends who throw...

Six young people meet on an archaeological dig in a remote corner of Greenland. Excavating the unsettling remains of a Norse...

Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with...

The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. It addresses the big questions of corporate life, like: Why does one shoelace...

In this powerful collection, Janice Galloway takes on David Lodge’s assertion that ‘literature is mostly about having sex and not...

In England half a century ago, well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life. Some things are not to be...

This novella, one of the most haunting things that Joseph Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the year the author died....

By an author described by critics as ‘the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop’. Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating...

Birnam Wood is on the move…

A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of...

In 2011, Mr. Watanabe, a Japanese electronics executive, is in Tokyo when the earthquake that precedes the Fukushima nuclear...