In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring...

A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre.

Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love...

A bestseller in several countries, this enchanting novel about a collection of misfits in Paris is quirky, poignant and...

Two lost masterpieces of French literature gathered together in one volume for the first time.

From the author of the...

From the author of the bestselling Suite Franзaise.

Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham.

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Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George...

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg....

'A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak...

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary...

'The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years' Literary Review
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the...

There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living...

Everything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf.

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Gabe Wallach, freshly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, and thus freed from old...

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...

This remarkable illustrated novel is Eco's most accessible and entertaining book since The Name of the Rose.

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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...

Eight short works of fiction by one of Britain's greatest and most original writers.

Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit...

A late work by the great master novelist John Fowles.

In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he...

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

Discover a beautiful story of what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne Tyler

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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...