Without warning or explanation, a 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with...

It’s the darkest time of night. Adriana, a baby in her arms, hammers on her sister's door. Who is she running from? What...

New York in the 1900s. A young girl, fascinated by rare books, defies the odds and climbs all the ranks. She becomes the director...

Moscow to Paris in a sidecar: an epic, crazy 2,500 mile road trip following Napoleon’s retreat
October 1812, Napoleon enters...

This heartwarming story is about two unlikely friends who give each other the courage to do what they never thought possible....

A sweeping story about obsession, mysticism, art, and earthly desire.

At the centre of this story, is the Cathedral. Its...

A small culturally mixed community living an apartment building in the center of Rome is thrown into disarray when one of the...

Sabine dreams of living as an artist in Paris; Helene has grown up living between her middle-class aunt and uncle and her more...

From her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla in...

June 1994. Twenty-year-old Daniele wakes up in a hospital room surrounded by strangers. Slowly, memories of the previous night...

Ferocity combines the suspense of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, the contemporary realism of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, and the...

The Republic of the Congo, 1964. A young man is facing a firing squad, preparing for his last moment on Earth. He reflects on his...

Frantumaglia invites readers into Elena Ferrante's workshop. The bestselling Italian author of My Brilliant Friend opens her desk...

A poignant bestselling novel full of French charm and memorable characters.

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery...

Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He’s merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be...

Whoever the lambdas might be, and wherever they really come from, they’re already here among us.
Outwardly alien arrivals from a...

An elderly academic is accosted by a homeless woman on his way home from the cinema. She tells him her name is Laura. So begins a...

Here is a new work of fiction by the always surprising Nothomb that subverts any attempts at categorization; a smart, singular,...

The second instalment in the Ottoman Quartet—the masterful saga of Turkish history by Ahmet Altan—follows the vast and vivid cast...

A moving story of liberation that shatters tired prejudices about womanhood, sex, and society.
Josephine teaches in a high...

A novel of devastating beauty set in Buchenwald during the Second World War.
Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich...

Ever since he was murdered, life has not been the same for Andrew Stilman. On the morning of July 9, 2012, New York Times...

A kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan novel infused with inky noir
Return to the Dark Valley tells the stories of four immigrants united...

Diane is raised by a mother so plagued by jealousy of her own daughter that she is incapable of showing affection to her. Despite...

A hauntingly beautiful novel about an unforgettable new heroine, and a story of undying love

Nives has recently lost her...

Left alone on the beach to fend for herself, a doll named Celina is having a terrible night. The Mean Beach Attendant of Sunset...

A family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead
Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979...

An emblematic story of the shipwreck of the Arab Spring
At his father’s funeral, to the great consternation of all present,...

The Life of the Mind opens with Dorothy sitting on a library toilet, checking her phone and examining the "thick, curdled knots...

Leda is devoted to her work as an English teacher and to her two children. When her daughters leave home to be with their father...