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

‘Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordinary, an entirely...

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

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to...

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

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

Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a...

Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and a...

From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine – meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world

In the remote...

On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor; she...

Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses that Orwell is said to have planted in his cottage in Hertfordshire, Rebecca...

His father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead...

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...

Frances is a young graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and...

One Sunday morning, a mysterious silent figure is found sleeping in a church in an unnamed American town. The congregants call...

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

Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. Hiruko, a...

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

Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build...

Her father died instantly, her mother in the hospital.

She has learned to say this flatly and without emotion, the way she...

Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now...

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

Jeanne moves from room to room. In the anonymous hotel bedrooms of Paris – Hotel Agate, Hotel Prince Albert, Hotel Prince...

Welcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murderous intentions and morbid desires, where missing children come back from the...

In the piazza, a man lies dead. No one will say if they witnessed his killing. This presents a challenge to the investigating...

Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a...

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

The Emperor’s Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the...

Pol suffers from a very rare hormonal disorder that ages him erratically; when he was thirteen, his body aged ten years...

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Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought...