Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest...

When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail. Since then, Lucy has become a...

The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was...

At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese...

These three brilliant novels span Henry Green's career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. Nothing is a...

Henry Green, whom W. H. Auden called 'the finest living English novelist', is the most neglected writer of the last century and...

Reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016, The Counterlife was lauded by the likes of John Updike, Martin Amis,...

Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years...

The hugely influential book that set Ma Jian on the road to exile from China.

'Outstanding' Irish Times

A Chinese writer...

Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy bachelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding...

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War,...

One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from...

When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the...

Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Georgy bears her fate...

Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.

A gang war is raging through the dark...

A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.

Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work....

In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic...

Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or...

A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene

‘One of the most important British writers of the twentieth...

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful...

A Husband. A Wife. Their Secret

Joe and Joan Castleman are en route to Helsinki. Joe is thinking about the prestigious...

A dystopian classic

In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century...

It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe.

Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a...

When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American...

Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. As he...

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where...

'The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John Updike

With his...

In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to...

A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

With an introduction by Richard...

The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection.

Here are men and women of wildly...