Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort...

For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day...

Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every...

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of...

A serial killer is terrorising the people of Bologna and rookie Detective Inspector Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case....

A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker

Here John Turner was cast away in...

Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of...

Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal...

Mike Engleby has a secret...

This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy in the seventies who wins a place at an...

Discover the moving powerful prequel to Snow Country

'An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope' Evening Standard

As...

What do men run away from? Not war, not physical hardship, but the day-to-day emotional demands of impossible domestic...

Charles Highway is every mother’s worst nightmare.

Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed,...

Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards.

Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he...

When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is...

A funny look at the social and political dynamic of French village life.

Gabriel Chevallier's delightful novel Clochemerle...

Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the...

The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a...

Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter and her husband in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous, constantly...

What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, the Great Fire of...

An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia

In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British...

Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers...

Heroic and moving accounts of the R.A.F. in war time by the author of Fair Stood the Wind for France and The Darling Buds of...

Tibor Fischer's hilarious first novel follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent...

A powerful, heart-breaking story about tempting fate and living with the consequences

Arthur and Jake are brothers yet worlds...

'A beautiful debut novel... A real achievement... This is a wise and incisive first novel from a real talent' -...

'A very fine collection of connected short stories - funny, disturbing, ironic and bloody' - Annie Proulx, Daily...

'Brilliant-a feast' Guardian

'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who...

The enchanting story of a very remarkable dog from the author of the bestselling Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

‘In early 1998 I...

In this enthralling book van der Post establishes his role as a distinguished explorer and writer describing the rediscovery of...

'Beautifully accomplished and memorable' The Times

Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the...