Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right....

Bellow evokes all the rich colour and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this comic novel about a middle-aged...

For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were...

It is 1913 - a breath away from the Great War - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. An assorted group of men...

David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the 'Golden Land'. David is hated...

Nedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable...

Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the...

At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair, a summer celebration at...

Kully knows some things you don’t learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows...

It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands...

Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great...

Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty...

This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers...

A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade &...

This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses...

Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of...

The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country - and of allegiance....

Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime seamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of...

When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World war, there are two things in his...

Sybille Bedford's first novel, A Legacy is a savage indictment of the brutality and anti-Semitism spawned in German officer-cadet...

Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work...

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from...

Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott...

'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'

Hidden away in the Record Department...

Robert Tressell's spirited attack on selfish capitalism is a masterpiece of wit and political passion and one of the most...

Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to her friends as Lucia) is an...

Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and...

Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven...

The key literary figure in the pubs of post-war Fitzrovia, Maclaren-Ross pulled together his dispersed energies to write two...

A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one of Africa's great writers, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A...