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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Set in 1795, "Water Music" is the rambunctious account of two men's wild adventures through the gutters of London and the...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In...

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

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