The ghoulish misdeeds and conflicted psychology of the undead are memorably explored in this clas...

Barbara is a Faroese Moll Flanders, a woman of insatiable sexual desire which leads her from one ...

Benito Perez Galdos is often called the Spanish Charles Dickens or the Spanish Balzac, and is one...

Poems of a Wanderer

Anise Koltz was born in Luxemburg in 1928. She is a founding member and Vice-President of the Eur...

Unshed Tears

Socrates in the Garden

Travels with Gandolpho

This is a generous selection of new and old poems from this best-loved Irish poet. Daly's poetry ...

In a Green Shade

The Old Women of Magione draws on two visits to Italy; a long poem 'A Former Franciscan Visits As...

The Boa Island Janus

The poems of Jean Orizet take the whole world as field, and the faults in the time-surface of lif...

Poems and Versions, 1929-90

Take Six is a celebration of six remarkable Catalan women writers: Víctor Català, Rosa Maria Arqu...

Time travel, deep-sea diving and the quest for the holy grail are improbable ingredients of this ...

Bloodlines

The Girl with the Teddy Bear first published in 1928 and sometimes compared with Nabokov's Lolita...

Revolver Christi

Take Six; Six Ukrainian Women Writers

Some of Grabinski's best stories, including a watchmaker whose death stops all the town clocks, a...

The first novel from Mauritania to be translated into English, in which Rayhana leaves her Bedoui...

''''The greatest book by Portugal''s greatest novelist.'' Jose Saramago. The Maias is part of Ded...

A story from one of Germany's most popular children's authors. Carlo is determined to see his fat...

Ivan Krylov has been loved by Russian people for two hundred years for his Fables, works in which...

The imagined autobiography of a movie star who appeared in German films across the Weimar and Naz...

A novel about obsessive love initially published in France in 1898. Has inspired five film adapta...

In The Perfume of the Lady in Black, Joseph Rouletabille, the young journalist turned detective, ...

The murder of his Professor by a postgraduate Physics student during a lecture at Crete Universit...

Le Calvaire is a thinly veiled autobiographical novel, which recounts the tortured and traumatic ...

Abbe Jules, first published in 1888, is the second part of Octave Mirbeau's autobiographical tril...

EROTICON

George Sand's fictionalised account of her notorious affair with the poet Alfred de Musset caused...

The Crane: Selected Poems

Monsieur de Phocas ranks with A Rebours as the summation of the French Decadent Movement. Modelle...

NGO worker Gwen refuses to leave Afghanistan as the 1990s takeover by the Taliban sets in. Her id...

A story surrounding a tragic but oft-forgotten moment in France in the Second World War.

The Church of the Love of the World

Against Nature is Huysmans's great fin-de-sicle novel anticipating many strains of modernism in i...

'Suspense and foreboding move alongside the chief players in this auspicious novelistic debut by ...

ENIGMA

Among the most admired of Desmond O'Grady's many poetry collections, The Wandering Celt was first...

Witty and wise, playful and philosophical, the poems and other short writings of German poet Mich...

J.-K. Huysmans Stranded (En Rade 1887), published just three years after the iconoclastic Against...

'(T)he trained eye of the natural scientist and the impassioned soul of a poet fuse to create a p...

In her second collection of poetry, O'Brien probes the shadows cast by love in its different forms.

Before You

Different Kinds of Love