An intense and surreal romance set against the politics of eighteenth-century Lisbon from Nobel Prize-winning author Jose...

A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention

What happens when the facts of...

A majestic tale, rich in allegory, wit and philosophy; another masterpiece from the Nobel prize-winning novelist Jose...

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago

A subtle...

A visit from relatives sparks an implosion in the life of a good-natured family man

The decision to invite his Southern...

'One of the great books about Spain' - Tristan Garel-Jones, Observer

A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of...

Reunion is a little-known novel. But it is also a universal story of friendship. It is a book of great power, waiting to be...

Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is...

In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli - set out...

'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'

While hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate...

'There he was, his trunk wrapped in hers. Whatever hurt or sorrow befell him was not really happening to him. He was on the other...

'You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love'

On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave...

'Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was...

A clever and addictive thriller from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments

Rennie Wilford is a...

Discover this sharp, funny short story collection from the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments

A man...

From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Dancing Girls and Other Stories showcases Margaret Atwood's...

A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness's masterpiece

Late one snowy midwinter night, in a remote...

Discover one of the most admired, best loved and influential novels in the history of English literature.

'If we had a keen...

'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz Kafka

Michael...

'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the...

Young and confident, with a swagger in her step, Sugar arrives in the southern town of Bigelow hoping to start over. Soon Bigelow...

'A magnum opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni...

'Don't show proper feelin', does it, not turnin' up for 'is dad's funeral?'

Siblings Sophia, Harry and Francis have lost both...

The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex

When Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is...

Selected and with a New Introduction by Tessa Hadley

A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A...

On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter, Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

A youthful tale of geriatric...

'Marvellously, insanely readable... Highsmith has done it again' The Times

"There's no such thing as a perfect murder......

What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes...

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. "

Mr Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, is a lazy drunk. The...