Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you lose your heart, for he is...

1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world’s most famous author. But fame comes at a price.
In the...

Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing...

Ron Rash has been acclaimed as ‘the best American novelist I have come upon in the last twenty years’ (Scotsman), a writer with...

Floorboard George Gastin is part of an insurance scam to wreck a pure white, mint condition '59 Cadillac originally intended for...

The Bondurant Boys were notorious gangster brothers who ran liquor though Franklin County during Prohibition. LAWLESS is their...

Revenge of the Lawn is Richard Brautigan in miniature and contains no fewer than 62 ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma,...

This superb collection, hailed for its power, compassion and elegance, takes in the wide sweep of human experience.
From the...

There’s Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic....

John Fante is a lost gem of American literature and the man who was credited by Charles Bukowski as the inspiration for him to...

George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town....

Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short...

Welcome to the house of the mosque…
Iran, 1950. Spring has arrived, and as the women prepare the festivities, Sadiq waits for a...

Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread...

After years away from her family, Maya Haque is on the journey home to Dhaka. But what if, as Maya discovers, everything you once...

This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast...

There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream…

Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the...

Jesse and Lee share a house owned by a very nice Chinese dentist, where it rains in the hall. They move to cabins on the cliffs...

Meet the Hunter family: Adam, Kate, and their children Hal and Charlotte. And Prince, their Labrador.
Prince is an earnest young...

After suffering a catastrophic breakdown, J.J. O’Malley volunteers for a government project exploring the possibility of using...

Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan,...

After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the Arctic...

One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the...

Aden Grace Sawyer has travelled a long way to begin her new life, and she’ll travel further to protect her secret. But once she’s...

Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but...

Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Millstone is a radical celebration of the mother-child relationship. It is the Swinging...

Sarah and Jack have never doubted that they are made for each other.
But there is someone in Sarah’s family who will not...

1919, Siberia.
Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks...

Anne Marie’s Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first tells his family that...

Luke O’Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on his family land on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he...