Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today.
My First Wife is Jakob Wassermann's intense, powerful account of a marriage - and its ruinous collapse - translated by the award-winning translator of Alone in Berlin, Michael Hofmann.
Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her.
THE NAIL-BITING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR'Is this the best crime writer in the world today?
From the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains comes a story of love and community in the wild beauty of the Italian AlpsThe remote alpine village of Fontana Fredda lives by the seasons.
"e;Early in Sergio Chejfec's The Dark, the nameless narrator describes his disorientation when looking over a landscape as 'the vertigo of simple things.
In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness.
"e;Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund"e; iNews "e;In a television world now awash in female coppers, there aren't many as interesting and human as Rebecka"e; Wall Street JournalIn the first thaw of spring the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne in the far north of Sweden.
A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of Six Four, and each centring around a mystery and the unfortunate officer tasked with solving it.
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our ageFlorent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness.
'Rich, authentic and entertaining' New StatesmanDiscover the darkly funny follow-up to cult classic Death and the PenguinViktor - last seen in Death and the Penguin fleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin Misha - seizes a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new identity.
A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Mar as, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.
"e;Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund"e; iNews"e;Asa Larsson is as deft at writing heart-stopping scenes as she is at getting inside the heads of characters"e; Washington PostTWO WOMEN FOLLOW A KILLER'S TRAIL INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESSThe frozen body of a woman is found in a fishing ark on the ice near Tornetr sk in northern Sweden.
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018A TRUE STORY THAT IS PACKED WITH FICTION - FICTION CREATED BY ITS MAIN CHARACTER, ENRIC MARCOBut who is Enric Marco?
'No other thriller writer can make you break into a sweat and break your heart at the same time' THE TIMESLeyli Maal is a beautiful Malian woman, mother of three, living in a tiny apartment on the outskirts of Marseille.
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Mar as, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.
The fourth novel in a historical series that began with the International Booker-shortlisted The Unseen "e;Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first half of the 20th century that is subtle and moving"e; David Mills, Sunday Times"e;Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light .
"e;Carlos Labbe's [Navidad & Matanza] begins to fuck with your head from its very first word—moving through journalese, financial reporting, whodunit, Joseph Conrad, Raymond Chandler, Nabokov to David Lynch.
Told more or less in reverse chronological order, High Tide is a psychological mystery about Ieva, her dead lover, her imprisoned husband, and the way their youthful decisions dramatically impacted the rest of their lives.
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD'Effortlessly readable and fizzing with energy, this novel is by turns quirky, funny and thoughtful' Mail on Sunday Dani Mosca is 40 and his father has just died.
Eine Sommerliebe mit Witz und Herz von Jenn Bennett, Autorin des Romantik-Highlights »Unter dem Zelt der Sterne«Seinem Online-Schwarm im echten Leben zu begegnen kann böse Überraschungen mit sich bringen.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER AWARD 2016'Undoubtedly the most powerful work of crime fiction I have read this year' Independent'Vivid and harrowing' Sunday Times'Police procedural, romance, thriller The Murderer in Ruins has a bit of everything and it's one hell of a read.
Through the friendship of two young Franco-Iranians, Exiles from Paradise is a novel that delves deep into the great conflict between enlightened Islam and fanaticism.
'Compulsively readable' New York Times'Utterly original' Alberto ManguelIn the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest.
Book of the Year 2023 according to New Yorker, TIME magazine, KirkusA powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Vegetarian.
The echo of the novels of The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series resonates in the stories of Carlos Ruiz Zaf n: gathered here for the first time - and some never before published in English - these stories are a celebration of one of the world's great storytellersA boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart.
