Pinball, 1973 is Murakami's second novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. ...

'Witty, original, inventive...utterly compelling' Daily MailWinner of the Man Booker Prize The ni...

Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the t...

Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable ...

A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitatio...

In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place...

Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the br...

At first, they put Konrad's absentmindedness down to an immoderate fondness for alcohol. For year...

In one of the most acclaimed fiction debuts in years, Adam Haslett explores the lives that appear...

A.L. Kennedy's fifth collection of short stories show us exactly what becomes of the broken-heart...

'One of the most soulful writers in America, and a national treasure' George SaundersNineteen tal...

As young boys both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understa...

Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young peop...

Chuck Palahniuk's world has been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise N...

A brilliantly written and groundbreaking book about Dylan's music - now the recipient of the Nobe...

Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha St...

Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has in...

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-Ameri...

Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of 20th century life. To understand Freud is to...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjean...

Thelma is six years old. Life at home is unsettling and disturbing; her father's games are not en...

For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper starte...

Ita Doyle: 'In all my life I have lived in two houses, had two jobs, and one husband. I'm a very ...

Tel Aviv. A suicide bomber has killed 19 in a packed city centre restaurant. Dr Amin Jaafie, an I...

Forced to leave the University of Baghdad when the Americans invade Iraq, a young man returns hom...

In Reappraisals award-winning historian Tony Judt argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetti...

The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from thei...

'Daring and provocative... Startlingly original' New York TimesThe nuclear holocaust has been and...

In a corner of south-western France, a young rose grower nurtures a private passion to breed an e...

'And to my daughter in France, I bequeath the remainder of my Estate'These words, read from the w...

'A very modern story about aimless lives and messy marriages' Paul TherouxCaught in the crossfire...

The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away fr...

Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his t...

The great Icelandic novel by written by a Nobel prize-winner, this is a magnificent portrait of t...

A dazzling collection of short fiction, containing stories published in New Writing and the Times...

From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.Le Bal is a sharp, brittle story of a girl who...

The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations, corruption and the backwash of...

Swinging London, 1968. Frederica Potter wirft ihren Job an der Kunsthochschule hin und macht, fas...

Having examined England's twin obsessions - violence and sex - in THE FOOTBALL FACTORY and HEADHU...

This is the story of the growing up of Martin Brennan, a troubled boy in troubled times, a boy wh...

The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend ...

Panos Karnezis' remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village. His characters...

Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a ...

In 1989, Tim Moore moved into the last house in Chiswick with an outside toilet. Intrigued by a s...

Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated pop...

The scene is London, in 1399. It is the last year of the fourteenth century, and there is talk of...

The last remaining tenant in a condemned New York tenement, Harry Lesser struggles against rising...

In her powerful opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors' - A. S. Byatt considers...