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

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

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of...

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence....

This unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the...

One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of resistance set...

The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael Hofmann

Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of...

Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his...

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated...

'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,...

A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been...

In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been...

Quentin is a successful lawyer in New York, but inside his head he is struggling with his own sense of guilt and the shadows of...

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

The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers

'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme...

A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie...

As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M. A. Nanga is 'a man of the people', as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish...

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

A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is...

'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.'

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and...

'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the...

Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a...

A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering...

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....

Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an...

The concluding part in Javier Marias' spy trilogy masterwork

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

An omnibus comprising Raymond Chandler's three Philip Marlowe novels, The Lady in the Lake, The High Window and The Little Sister.

In the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern Western society, Foucault investigates the Golden Age of...