Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasising about sex and...

Jesse and Lee share a house owned by a very nice Chinese dentist, where it rains in the hall. They move to cabins on the cliffs...

In this stunning final work of fiction, the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich introduces an...

There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream…

Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the...

Anne Marie’s Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first tells his family that...

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In this masterful retelling of one of the greatest works of world literature, Alasdair Gray – in his last work – offers an...

‘His face made a fist at the world. The twined remnant of umbilicus projected vulnerably. Hands, feet and prick. He had come...

Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you lose your heart, for he is...

An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing...

In Dubliners, James Joyce takes us on an extraordinary journey with the ordinary men and women from the city of his birth. In...

There’s Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic....

Kenn returns to the Highlands of his youth, back to the river which has haunted his dreams since boyhood. Determined to walk all...

Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway's capital, a...

Brought up in a suffocating, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and moves...

Sophie, a twenty-something Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A., and Lola, a German immigrant who has...

On a holy mountain in the depths of Persia there is a cave with a mysterious cuneiform carving deep inside it. Aga Akbar, a...

After suffering a catastrophic breakdown, J.J. O’Malley volunteers for a government project exploring the possibility of using...

'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too …'
In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a...

A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable...

Named Wales’s Greatest Novel
This outstanding novel tells of one boy’s journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full...

‘He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed ‘Truth! Truth!...

Revenge of the Lawn is Richard Brautigan in miniature and contains no fewer than 62 ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma,...

France, 1861. When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour, a young silkworm breeder, has to...

A heartbroken American writer starts a story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky and lands in the...

The debut work, a short story collection from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Under the Skin, The Crimson Petal...

When Daniel's mother dies, he is brought under the protection of the AMO: the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. It is an...

Over one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood, becomes acquainted with Robert Lebrun. As the...

The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and...

In this dazzling collection, Nam Le takes us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the...

Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but...