Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour.
A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts.
Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fangled' invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers.
In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia, while her beloved brother Jesper yearns for the warmer climes of Morocco.
A heartbreaking and hilarious novel from the internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious PeopleEveryone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house.
A creepy, compelling thriller, SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME is the fifth Thora Gudmundsdottir novel from Yrsa, 'Iceland's answer to Stieg Larsson' (Daily Telegraph).
One of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers Since 1945Now on Netflix, the Commandant Servaz series: The Frozen Dead'Great storytelling, with a creeping sense of dread that would not disgrace Stephen King at his best' Daily MailOne winter morning, in a small town nestled in the Pyrenees, a group of workers discover the headless body of a horse, hanging suspended from a frozen cliff.
From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick***Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards?
From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickI'll shoot a policeman every day until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet.
From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickMilla has finally escaped her abusive husband, only to find herself at the heart of an anti-terrorist operation.
'Achingly beautiful' Guardian 'By turns touching and profoundly sad' SpectatorWhen a young, rebellious writer from Leningrad arrives in a remote Russian village to study local customs, one woman stands out: Vera, who has been waiting thirty years for her lover to return from the Second World War.
'A mini-masterpiece'William Boyd, Guardian'Remarkable'Daily Telegraph'Unforgettable'Mail on Sunday'Prodigious'Spectator'Perfect'Daily MailIn a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger comes across an old man playing the piano in the dark, silent tears rolling down his cheeks.
The second of the Black Forest Investigations - "e;Its plot bristles with invention"e; Guardian It has been a long dry summer in the Black Forest idyll of Kirchzarten.
Writing in the first three decades of the twentieth century, Franz Kafka explored the themes of alienation, anxiety, and solitude in stories that were often surreally fantastic.
DI Charlie Lager returns to investigate a long-buried disappearance in this 'atmospheric', 'evocative' and 'arresting' page-turner of a procedural from the new Swedish queen of crime fiction************She must find the truth about Francesca.
'A thriller that lingers in the memory' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB'Dark Nordic noir' THE i 'A global bestseller' SUNDAY TIMES The award-winning, international bestselling Swedish crime debut about a missing girl, and the detective who must return home and confront her darkest secrets in order to find her - for fans of Susie Steiner, Samuel Bjork, and Lisa Jewell.
