Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending summer in Paris with his mother, Alice.

Alice is translating the...

From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose...

As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born: he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone...

In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive...

The final part of the magisterial Danzig Trilogy by Nobel Prize-winning Gunter Grass.

In an explosive fusion of myth and...

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about.

The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy...

Enter Louis de Bernieres' magical, tragic and hilarious South American odyssey.

When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza...

Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and...

Mann's short stories explore his abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits....

Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped...

Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate...

When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a...

Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his...

Some get all the luck - but not Eugene Debs Hartke. Ex-Vietnam vet, ex-college professor, and now a TB-stricken inmate at...

A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and...

Unto Death contains two beautiful short novels linked by death and destruction.

Crusade is set in 1096 - a year of sinister...

As the Germans advance into Poland in 1939, Elisha Pomeranz, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker, escapes into the wintry...

Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father`s funeral. Catherine McKenna - a young composer-remembers exactly...

Oscar-winning writer Steve Tesich masterfully creates and destroys the sad, mad world of Saul Karoo.

Karoo is an alcoholic who...

Mid-1930s, Northern France. A mysterious young girl named Anne Louvet arrives at the seedy Hotel du Lion d'Or in the small French...

Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the...

On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave...

In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to...

In the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of...

The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the...

A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is...

Students and journalists, farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people - or are...

Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy...

A powerful and unique story about connection, showing that miracles can happen – even across a library circulation desk.

The...

The bestselling classic from a 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Journey to the glittering seventeenth-century...