From the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the...

Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, this is the masterpiece from the author of Child of All...

Gilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, focused and determined, even when her boss tries it on with her, even...

'The piteousness of his little soft shroud of hair falling down his brow and swept aside by the hand over blue serious...

'She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap"'

Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine...

Kerouac's last published novel, Pic is an endearing portrait of a road trip across America, seen through the eyes of one...

A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery

'Sometimes, in my capacity...

The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers

Koji, a young...

The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society -...

Mattis doesn't understand much about the world. He doesn't understand why others call him simple. Or why his sister Hege, who has...

Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train...

'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds'

Expelled from her...

'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the loveliest way to see herself'

Lucrecia Neves is vain, unreflective,...

Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time

'She found the best clay that one could...

Accra, Ghana, the 1970s. In the streets, marketplaces and crowded houses of this sprawling city, an unforgettable cast of...

The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata

Ineko has lost the ability to see things. At first...

Part detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering portrait of a writer trying to tell...

'Football is a pleasure that hurts'

This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama,...

The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it...

Retired teacher Edgar Hopkins lives for the thrill of winning poultry prizes. But his narrow world is shattered when he learns...

'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ambassador of France!'

For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce,...

A quiet village in Normandy, 1932. Ludo is ten years old and lives with his uncle, a kindly, eccentric creator of elaborate...

A darkly humorous Czech satire: a new super-breed tries to conquer the world...

War with the Newts (1936) is Karel Capek's...

A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to See

Rome, 1944. Robert is a...

A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love.

At a Hollywood party, a...

Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The...

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise,...

October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover...

The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it

To...

The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather's strongest heroine at its...