'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess'Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing' - Sunday Telegraph'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverBucharest, 1940.
'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid' - Sunday Times'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverAthens, 1941.
When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country.
'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new political reformers, particularly those known as Nihilists.
In the twilight years of Communist East Germany, Bruno Krug, a womanising 'People s Champion of Art and Culture' who once penned a world-famous novel, falls for Theresa Aden, a music student from the West.
In 1989, the memorable year when the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his early morning run finds a corpse lying on a park bench and alerts the authorities.
A chilling portrait of life under Communist rule by Albania's most important writerIt's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEPhilip Roth s masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America Swede Levov is living the American dream.
The second novel of Roth s eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American PastoralI Married a Communist charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a ditchdigger in 1930s New Jersey, becoming a big-time radio hotshot in the 1940s.
The unforgettable, haunting story of a young womans perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, in the first novel published in English by a female Kurdish writer Set in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel takes readers into the everyday lives of the Kurds.
A member of Scotland Yard's secret anti-anarchist police corps, Gabriel Syme infiltrates the local European anarchist council only to discover that the group is not what it presents itself to be.
THE GRIPPING ESPIONAGE THRILLER FROM AWARD-WINNER RJ ELLORY'This tense, atmospheric, totally believable thriller harks back to the golden age of espionage but is also about how well we really know our friends' THE SUN* * * * *The mission was supposed to be simple.
From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction and one of the best crime writers of our time a new critically acclaimed novel centered around the unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.
**A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student.
A breath-taking, original and compelling novel based on the private life of JFK, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty and co-creator of the graphic novel Sleeper 'A novel of our times: shameless and prurient, detached and salacious' ObserverJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy is the 35th President of the United States, and a serial womaniser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXThree men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police.
