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

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...

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

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

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...

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, ‘Sensei’,...

Three bears.

The first, a diligent memoirist whose unlikely success forces her to flee Soviet Russia.

The second, her...

A spectacularly revealing and harrowing portrait of ordinary lives in the world’s least ordinary country, North Korea

North...

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

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...

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. As youths, she and her cousin Yuu spent the summers in the wild Nagano mountains, hoping for...

Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let...

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...

Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend’s corpse, a...

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an...

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...

When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge ancient bones have been discovered...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018
From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International...

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...

Meet Keiko.

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

The Arctic: An Anthology features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and...