The epic finale of the Latin American trilogy following The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts and Senor Vivo and the Coca...

The tale of Billy Lee Turner, a black boy convicted of murdering a white girl in 1930s Mississippi, is a powerful story of racial...

It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the...

Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin....

'All Quiet on the Western Front for our era' New Statesman

Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses....

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to...

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

Alice is translating the...

A novel of Ireland like no other.

Eureka Street is a story of Belfast in the 1990s, six months before and after another...

The modern classic that changed the way we thought about sex

'Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same' -...

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

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.

To...

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...

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....

A masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Adrian Leverkuhn is a young man...

The truth behind Richard the Lionheart and Bad King John - brilliantly readable, scrupulously researched and full of powerful...

This major and long-awaited work is the definitive history of the American Civil War by our greatest military historian.

The...

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...

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

A village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and...

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

A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and...

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