In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart...

One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of San Cristobal. Aged between nine and thirteen, the children are...

It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother”s former care-giver, Rani, has died in...

A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly...

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

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

Birnam Wood is on the move…

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

Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century upbringing set in the atmospheric...

Gonzalo is a frustrated would-be poet in a city full of poets; poets lurk in every bookshop, prop up every bar, ready to debate...

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

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

Meet Keiko.

Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen...

Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a kayak, his memory of who he...

They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation.

They used to be young,...

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...

Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His sister, Ajany, and their father...

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

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...

In the heart of Mexico City a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about...

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...

1919. The Russian Civil War. It is the harsh dead of winter, as four soldiers set up camp in a forest somewhere near the Romanian...

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

Teenage Silvie and her parents are living in a hut in Northumberland as an exercise in experimental archaeology. Her father is a...

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe’s biggest issue

Richard has spent his life as a university...

Haroun's father is the greatest of all storyletters. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day...

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...

It is 1988, the year before the Berlin Wall came down. Jonathan Fabrizius, a journalist living in West Germany, is asked to...

As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with the...

In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while...

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