Peter H eg's first novel is an interweaving of the lives and loves of four families, within which histories time expands, clocks stop or race forward at will.
Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out.
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.
'Indisputably the definitive translation' Observer'If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote' Ben OkriWidely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain.
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*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.
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*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.
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories.
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake.
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning novel from the master of the surreal.
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase is the mystery hybrid which completes the odyssey begun in Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973.
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.
'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.
