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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 'A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored... Exquisite.' Eimear McBride Yeong-hye and her husband...

The thrilling ninth classic installment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that have inspired all crime fiction written ever since. Widely recognised as the...

An alarm sounds in the middle of the night for a burglary in progress at a winter-closed campsite in Bredang, outside Stockholm. The nearest police car answers the call. There...

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of...

In this moving autobiographical novel, the narrator's mother, Lucile, raises her two daughters largely alone. A former child model from a large Bohemian family, Lucile is younger and more glamorous...

A CURSED PLACE. A COLD CASE. A KILLER WHO LEFT NO TRACE.The huge International bestseller.Gripping, unputdownable and packed with twists, The Mountain is a thriller that you will never forget."Can...

'An absolute page-turner' Mail on SundayDear Mr. M,I'd like to start by telling you that I'm doing better now. I do so because you probably have no idea that I...

THE PRIZE-WINNING SATIRICAL BESTSELLER - MORE THAN 500,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE"I enjoyed The Capital so much . . . A major book" New York Times"First-class satire" Guardian"A deliciously vicious and...

Publishing in English for the very first time, Japan's beloved coming-of-age classic on what really matters in life The streets of Tokyo swarm below fifteen year-old Copper as he gazes...

**SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM****THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**'Written with heart and great appeal' FINANCIAL TIMES'A coming-of-age-story to be loved everywhere in the world' FREDRIK BACKMAN, author of...

'The darkness dwells, the desperation grows between the characters and the walls close in until you're caught in the trap.' - Lars KeplerA breathless page-turner from an international master of...

A breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho. In this riveting collection of thoughts and stories, Paulo Coelho, the author of 'The Alchemist',...

Chris Kraus' The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga and Moscow,...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019'I am astonished by Four Soldiers. I have never read anything like it, yet it is one of those books you feel must...

Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with...

In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a failed coup attempt to oust...

'THE QUEEN OF SCANDINAVIAN CRIME THRILLERS' RED'A THRILLER WRITER OF THE HIGHEST ORDER' LIZA MARKLUNDHanna Wilhelmsen investigates a brutal series of murders in this chilling mystery perfect for fans of...

The spellbinding new novel from one of the world's best-loved authors, Paulo Coelho, recounting the story of Brida, and her pursuit of wisdom. This is the story of Brida, a...

The stunning new novel from the internationally bestselling author of THE SHADOW OF THE WIND.In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin -...

'Dorthe Nors is fantastic!' Junot Diaz'Nors' writing is by turns witty, gut wrenching, stark and lyrical.' Los Angeles TimesSonja's over forty, and she's trying to move in the right direction....

A seeker after truth will be hunted as prey. When controversial Professor Kristian Storm is found hanged in his office, his assistant Marie Skov refuses to believe that he has...

'There are already three of us in this marriage. I'm not sure there is room for a fourth . . .'Ann is a reluctant Vicar's wife. She tries her best...

Seventy-two men arrive in the Sicilian countryside. They are "immigrants", "refugees" or "migrants". But in Altino, they are called the ragazzi, the 'guys' that the Santa Marta Association have taken...

Described as 'a masterpiece' by Stefan Zweig, this extraordinary novel of love, war, ghosts and memory features an introduction by Patti SmithBaron Bagge, a cavalry officer in the Carpathian Mountains...

Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of...

In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city.Over the last five decades, no other...

Welcome to the house of the mosque . . . Iran, 1950. Spring has arrived, and as the women prepare the festivities, Sadiq waits for a suitor to knock on...

Set at the end of the 19th century, this novel is a tale of mutiny and shipwreck. The narrator, Peder Jensen, is both competent second mate and unworldly philosopher. Esther...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Everyone should read Pamuk' The New Statesman'You could become obsessed with this novel' GuardianOsman is a young engineering student when he finds a mysterious...

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of...

When an unusual building appeared overnight in a remote northern Cape community in the 1970s, and disappeared a few weeks later, it seemed to point to a series of baffling...

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Sidetracked One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call-out. When he reaches the isolated...

Aldo Bianchi, an Argentine former revolutionary living in Italy, travels to Havana where he meets the beautiful Bini, a young girl working the hotels with great wit and panache. Bianchi...