It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, twenty years old, a hairdresser from Soho, sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They used to be young,...

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...

‘What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most...

Meet Keiko.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Richard has spent his life as a university...

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

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