Set in the Montparnasse district of Paris, the author, Jean, retraces his nocturnal footsteps around the left bank during...

In Rituals, Amsterdam of the fifties, sixties and seventies is viewed from the perspective of the capricious Inni Wintrop. An...

Bookseller Paula has lost a child, and a husband. Where will she find her happiness? Fiercely independent Judith thinks more of...

Berlin, Gorlitzer Park: The body of a young woman in a white wedding dress floats in the canal. Who is she, and where does she...

A morose provincial inspector of roads in Aragon settles down to write the fable of the Snow Queen. The Netherlands has now been...

The launch of a new series inspired by Sherlock Holmes. A murder investigation brings together two unlikely allies in a race to...

Did sex bring down the Iron Curtain? An orphan reflects on the unbreakable bond between love and freedom in the Soviet...

A dazzling novel about the traces we leave, the traces we erase and the traces we seek to rebuild.

In this innovative novel...

What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn?

Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna, but in 1938 she...

It is the middle of the roaring twenties, and Gittel is living The Hague with her parents, whose blazing rows are the traditional...

An anthology of contemporary women's short fiction in translation, featuring work by emerging women writers from across...

In Kirkeveien, Oslo, in the year 1956, forty-year-old Maj is worn down by being a homemaker and widowed mother. To the...

Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value the collection of a Spanish duke. At a welcome lunch...

Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second-hand bookshop and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a cosmopolitan district where...

Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso Lopez, adored by his female patients but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition:...

Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is...

A lonely librarian opens her heart...

One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight.

She begins...

A small town in outback Australia wakes to an appalling crime.

A local schoolteacher is found taped to a tree and stoned to...

The Cheffe is born into an impoverished family in Sainte-Bazeille in south-western France, but when she takes a job working in...

In this extraordinary final work, Dasa Drndic's combative, probing voice reaches new heights. In her relentless search for truth...

For reasons that will eventually become clear, Paul Hansen is in prison. He's been in prison for a couple of years now, sharing...

Once upon a time there was a boy whose mother called him "Wolf"

She thought this name would bring him strength, luck, natural...

A renowned photographer probes a traumatic incident in the life of a fellow guest at a countryside ranch. A chance meeting at a...

Paris, 1900. Aileen Bowman arrives at the Exposition Universelle, where all the world has gathered to witness the birth of...

Following the conventions of a different genre, each of the pieces in Schalansky's Inventory considers something that is...

Behind the ornate doors of 30, rue du Metal in Brussels, twenty students begin their apprenticeship in the art of decorative...

"Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger"

Sometimes a distance from the world's tumult opens our hearts and our...

A second blistering crime novel set in France's most notorious suburb, by a police officer turned million-copy bestseller and key...

In February 1959, several Icelandic trawlers were caught in a storm off Newfoundland's Grand Banks. What happened there is the...

The townsfolk of Motal, an isolated, godforsaken town in the Pale of Settlement, are shocked when Fanny Keismann - devoted wife,...