Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick...

When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn...

A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer...

A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling...

Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from...

'It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room' says the anonymous narrator of Hubert Selby Jr.'s...

Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady...

The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is a genre-defining...

In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their...

Inspired by his own eccentric aunt, Patrick Dennis's Auntie Mame is a madcap comedy, published with an afterword by Matteo...

The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during...

The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirising life in...

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...

Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of...

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 struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into...

'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...

From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century...

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...

Warhol... , Hackett...

A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat a bemused...

From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love...

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

Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl,...