A road-trip novel that takes us on a journey of love and escape through the vast and magical landscape of Patagonia, where nothing and no-one are what they seem.
A mesmerising fable with a difference, set in Japan over 1000 years agoFor readers of Alessandro Baricco's Silk, Patrick S skind's Perfume and Takashi Hiraide's The Guest Cat.
'A comic tour de force, a biting satire on the hypnotized world of artificial wants and needs that Huxley predicted, a moving study of brotherhood and family failure, F is an astonishing book, a work of deeply satisfying (and never merely clever) complexity' - John Burnside Artful and subversive, F tells the story of the Friedland family - fakers, all of them - and the day when the fate in which they don't quite believe catches up with them.
Egdar "e;Lefty"e; Mendieta investigates the death of a notorious stripper in this second sweltering "e;Narco-lit"e; noir from the Godfather of Mexican crime fictionAn intelligent, atmospheric police procedural series for fans of John Le Carr and Mick HeronWhen the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo is found in a dusty field, Detective Edgar "e;Lefty"e; Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice.
THE SMASH-HIT HITLER SATIRE - MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD"e;A brilliant book"e; RUSSELL KANE "e;Brilliant and hilarious"e; KEN FOLLETT"e;An uproarious, disturbing book that will resonate long after you turn the final page"e; Caroline Jowett, Daily Express"e;There's no question that the novel has hit upon the key paradox of our modern obsession with Hitler"e; Philip Olterman, ObserverBerlin, Summer 2011.
Bodies from the Library brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown, and the 2023 volume is another indispensable collection for crime fans.
From a particularly humiliating accident at scout camp, to the final stages of terminal illness, Daniel Pennac's warm, witty and heart-breaking novel shows the rise and fall of an ordinary man, told through his observations of his own body.
THE PRIZE-WINNING SATIRICAL BESTSELLER - A "e;HOUSE OF CARDS"e; FOR THE EU MORE THAN 500,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEThis is the tale of a continent, a city and its inhabitants as they navigate their way through the confusing tangle of 21st-century life.
'A novel of crime and darkness that eschews straightforward domestic noir' Guardian'Move over Ferrante, there's a new Elena in town' Independent'There is much beauty and sadness in this slim novel' The Times 'Utterly gripped me from beginning to end' Victoria Hislop In the August of 1978, the summer I met Anna Trabuio, my father took a girl into the woods.
"e;Bottini is a terrific storyteller"e; SUNDAY EXPRESSThe third in the Black Forest Investigations series - by CWA shortlisted authorOne wet and misty weekend in October, the Niemann family find a stranger in their garden.
Four narrators, a student from a caf , a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki.
A biting satire of the Age of Enlightenment, Voltaire's classic tale Candide, or the Optimist remains a bestseller over two centuries after its initial publication.
'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves'Maigret looked at him in some confusion, wondering if he waas dealing with a skilful actor or, on the contrary, with a sickly little man who found consolation in a subtle sense of humour.
"e;Compassionate and complex"e; Financial Times"e;Stridsberg writes with chilling poise"e; New York Times"e;A haunting portrait of the starkest meanings of love and family.
On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction.
Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing "e;one bullet too many"e;, Anne Capestan is expecting the worst when she is summoned to H.
"e;A tender and thoughtful exploration of the painful irony of being alive and our attempts to make sense of the past as well as the present"e; KATHARINA VOLCKMER, author of The Appointment"e;A reflection on identity, rootlessness and violence - Fonseca's most ambitious, most complex and most accomplished novel to date"e; JAVIER CERCAS, author of Soldiers of Salamis"e;A beautifully knotted novel which unfolds with every traced layer of its deeply affecting narrative alongside a meditation on memory, mystery and vanishing.
A frustrated publisher receives a mysterious angst-ridden manuscript: 'a friend' must send it in installments; its contents would put the author in danger.
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.
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?
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 .
