The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth centuryIn the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth.
'Das Engelhaus' ist das Haus, in dem Tora Otter, dem Leser schon aus 'Hexenringe' und 'Springquelle' bekannt, vom Beginn der dreißiger Jahre an bis in die ersten Nachkriegsjahre wohnt.
Between jobs and feeling financially strapped, gun-for-hire Hannah Nicks takes on an assignment that promises easy money and an all-expenses-paid vacation on the Mexican Riviera.
Everything comes with a priceThe chilling next instalment in the Konrad Simonsen series, perfect for fans of Johan Theorin and Yrsa Sigur ard ttirThe skeleton of a young woman is discovered, tied to a stone, in a lake deep in the Danish countryside.
'Love always sits in a seat other than the one we were expecting it to, right alongside the place where we expected love to be' In the midst of the Algerian civil war, Hayat is a young novelist trapped in a loveless marriage.
An extraordinarily rich and powerful collection of seven, thematically linked stories from the acclaimed prize-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling
'The narrative escalates, the mystery deepens, and the scope of the story widens with each page .
_______________'His novels probe the sore spots and raw wounds of contemporary Spain, their cunning and complexity leavened by a light touch and an easy, graceful style' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent on Sunday'The beauty of this intelligently probing novel is that one is left wondering if we ever truly know anything about anybody that anybody including ourselves' - Scotsman'Compelling .
_____________________'An admirable novel'- The Times'In this portrait of men and women swept along by great events, and determined to be on the side of the angels, Fuentes has invested the often colourless world of politics with romantic ardour' - Sunday Telegraph_____________________An epic and heartbreaking love story that will leave no one untouched.
___________________AN EXPLORATION OF LOVE, LUST AND BETRAYALPart novel, part expose, Diana is a stirring portrait of a passionate affair amid the cultural chaos of the 1960s and 1970s.
_______________________A DRAMATIC FICTIONAL PORTRAIT OF THE US-MEXICO BORDER, MIGRATION, AND ITS IMPACT ON PEOPLE'S LIVES_______________________Through this network of nine personal stories, Carlos Fuentes sets out to explain Mexico and America to each other and to the rest of the world.
_______________SHORTLISTED FOR THE GONCOURT PRIZETranslated from the French by George Miller_______________'One of those books that grabs you and demands to be read' - Clare Morrall'Delphine de Vigan is a sensation' - Observer'Sympathetic, compelling, enjoyable' - Guardian_______________Every day Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train to the office of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department.
Purgatorio is Mart nez's most moving, most autobiographical novel and yet it is also a ghost story, the ghost story which has been Argentina's history since 1973.
'Beirut39' is a Hay Festival project which aims to select and celebrate 39 of the best young Arab writers as a centrepiece of the Beirut World Capital festivities in April 2010.
'Splendid' Telegraph'Vivid, forceful, masterly' Guardian'One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature' Mario Vargas LlosaLondon, 1903.
When a man's body is discovered at the base of some cliffs in the small resort town of Hari Cove, the police at first suspect a tragic accident, a misstep that cost the man his life.
In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers.
'Good-hearted and brutal at the same time, The Milkman in the Night is a complex, unsettling mixture of bleakness and warmth' Sunday TimesRead this eccentric epic from the author of cult classic Death and the PenguinSemyon is disturbed.
Midsummer approaches, and Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him.
