Alphonse Courrier possesses all the might reasonably make a man content: a prosperous ironmonger's business and a position of respect in his Auvergne village, a dutiful, coolly beautiful wife who runs an irreproachable household, two healthy sons, and a hidden mistress - "e;the ugliest girl in the village but probably the happiest"e;.
At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the beginning of a process which is Solzhenitsyn's basic theme: the individual's experience of acquiring an immortal soul.
Mentioned in the same breath as The Little Prince, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Alchemist,Serdar zkan s enchanting debut novel The Missing Rose has the power to change your life.
A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jos SaramagoSenhor Jos is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry.
Discover the original adventure story as dreamers, fools and knights errant collide in this brilliant satire that is widely regarded as the world s first modern novel.
A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary*Featuring the story Barn Burning , the inspiration behind the Palme d Or nominated film Burning*When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset.
The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the worldAutumn 1969, and soon I would be 20.
An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car.
TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNYWith the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light.
A moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chancesGrowing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters.
'An understated fantasy with an unlikely but likeable hero' The TimesWhen Igor accidentally travels back to 1957 Kyiv, he finds out that the past isn't as rosy as it seems.
Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime': so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita.
From Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, the Swedish author of the smash-hit The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules, comes the third hilarious yet tender title in this much-loved series, The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly.
Winner of the Rosenkrantz Award for Best Thriller of the YearFrom the bestselling, award-winning Swedish author Hakan Nesser, The Living and the Dead in Winsford is a gripping and deeply atmospheric psychological thriller set on Exmoor.
