New York, 2000.
Kate and Ben meet at a party and immediately fall in love. It is the first year of the new millennium, the first...

Dinslaken, Germany. July 1945. The war is over, and the Allied forces are beginning to assess the damage. Among them is a war...

‘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...

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...

Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan’s many ‘old-elderly’; men and women who...

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

Fear and destruction take root in a community of women when the Witchfinder General comes to town, in this dark and thrilling...

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

Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano’s thrift store, there are treasures to...

Twelve-year-old Robert hates his maths teacher: he sets his class boring problems and won’t let them use their calculators. Then...

Set during the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta...

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

Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkins’s Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak...

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters,...

Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all...

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...

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

Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance...

Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man...

Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of ’97. His parents are psychologists, his mom a famous author in the field....

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

Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of...

Want to pick the perfect wine for dinner? Wondering what to eat with a special bottle? Let The Wine Dine Dictionary be your...

Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed...

This Book Will Save Your Life is an uplifting story about one man's efforts to bring himself back to life.

Richard is a...

After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy coastal town. Mired in her grief, Mara's...

Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century – an ordinary man in extraordinary...

Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a...

A young woman, Violet, lies in a hospital bed in the closing days of the war. Her pregnancy is over and she is no longer able to...

What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In...