'Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater
Had a wife and couldn't keep her...'

In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel,...

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a...

The play is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the...

Arthur Miller's penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would...

'I can feel the passage of time, as though it were coursing through my veins, along with my blood...'
One June day in 1955...

A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and...

Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking...

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers

For...

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his...

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil...

Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets,...

Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism...

The last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi, she was driving at top speed away from a Swiss villa - leaving the body of her murdered...

The cult classic from one of France's most stylish writers

'Don't give a damn,' says Zazie, 'what I wanted was to go in the...

My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression....

The concluding part in Javier Marias' spy trilogy masterwork

Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the...

The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African...

One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in...

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley...

'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.'

Forty-nine,...

John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play...

An Indian clerk, Girija Krishnan, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on an abandoned cache of arms hidden in...

A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.

'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that...

'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal...

'When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded by a brace of...

The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he...

A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family....

The Cold War plays out in the shadow of the Second World War as old loyalties collide

Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab...

Alternate history meets Cold War thriller in a vintage Len Deighton escapade

11 June, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill?

A...

A sweeping portrait of one Berlin family, spanning generations and two world wars
Peter and Paul, the two sons of German...