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

Vonnegut's riotous urban fairytale about the various fiascos of the Nixon years - a firm fan favourite

Walter J. Starbuck's...

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...

Fima, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a gynaecology clinic. A preposterous, yet curiously attractive figure, he spends...

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...

The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a...

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

Manhattan has become the Island of Death.

The former President of the United States stands barefoot in a purple toga around a...

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...

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.

Billy Pilgrim – hapless...

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...

Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the...

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...

Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going.

They aren't sure if they have...

Henri has a passion for Napoleon - but Napoleon has a passion for chicken. As soldier and emperor butcher their way across...