How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his...

Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from...

A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains...

A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover, the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and...

'It was useless to think I'd ever be able to throw open the door behind which I was yet again hiding... Not now. Not...

A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali...

'January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better. I reply that it...

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...

As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale...

Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from...

Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs...

Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical...

When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short...

Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest...

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a...

In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the...