Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, are a captivating tribute to the...

On a foggy winter's evening in Dieppe, after the arrival of the daily ferry from England, a railway signalman habitually...

Two people who didn't know each other and who had come together by a miracle in the great city, and who now clung desperately to...

Old Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men.

For over thirty years...

Joseph Bloch, a once-famous goalkeeper turned construction worker, commits a random murder without thought or regret. As he...

Filip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing older brother Gregor, who he never knew. All he has is two of...

One evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization that her husband will...

The paediatrician and child psychiatrist D. W. Winnicott changed the way we think about childhood by placing the parent-infant...

Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London...

The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them,...

It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with...

A private detective is hired to find a missing person, but nothing is normal about this case. Why has the beautiful, alcoholic...

'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from...

'It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough . . . or else that you are too foreign'

Just as...

Tayo, a young Second World War veteran of mixed ancestry, is coming home. But, returning to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, he...

'I don't think I'm that unusual, and I don't think I'm crazy either'

Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to...

Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own....

A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mystery

'It was a puzzle with no solution....

First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to...

Society Must Be Defended is Michel Foucault's devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in civilization....

This is the ideal introduction to one of the most significant and radical philosophers of the past century. It includes detailed...

Aesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the...

In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he...

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he...

When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in...

A moving story of a Maori community's fight for survival, from one of New Zealand's most prominent and celebrated authors

On...

A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie

'Before I left...

This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of the twentieth...

'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'

The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life...

Horace Rumpole - dishevelled barrister at law, drinker of claret and smoker of cigars, inveterate quoter of Wordsworth and...