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

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A satiric trilogy about the last days of English Colonialism in Malaya in 1950s.

'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives...

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...

A powerful story set in war-torn Danzig about a teenager's rise from clown to hero by Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass.

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

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

When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza...

Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and...

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....

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

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

A party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly...

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...

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

Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in...

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...

An intelligent, yet emotionally honest portrait of one of the 20th century's influential, engimatic thinkers.

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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...

After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in...

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