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Their distant, nostalgic memories of home, their sense of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien...

WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023'A masterpiece . . . I challenge any author to top it!' Sigridur Alberstsdottir, Icelandic National Broadcasting Service.Josef Loewe enters the world as...

Selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020The first in an exciting new series from the author of THE SILENCE OF THE SEA,...

Set in 1940s Paris, this bittersweet, international bestseller is the perfect novel for fans of A Man Called Ove, My Name is Lucy Barton and The Guest CatA psychiatrist is...

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2021'Herman Koch has made a career from saying the apparently unsayable.' - Financial TimesWhen Robert Walter, the popular mayor of Amsterdam, sees his wife...

Valentin and Molina seemingly share little other than a cell in this queer classic ahead of its time.'Dazzling... a triumph' ObserverSometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness...

'Ferociously readable. . . I still can't get enough' The TimesIf no one ever died, what would happen then?For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway...

First published in Atiq Rahimi's adopted country of France, Earth and Ashes is a story of such spareness and power it leaves the reader reeling. Set during the Russian occupation...

Scandinavia's best-loved children's classic - the enchanting story of a naughty little boy who learns to love nature 'Never before had Nils travelled around at such good speed, and he...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'How I loved this book . . . Seethaler is in his very own league' Elizabeth Strout It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled...

A publishing phenomenon which has sold over 120,000 copies in France 'Leaves you feeling better prepared for life . . . the deepest emotions and the most delicate feelings are...

Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real accomplishment is her longevity: everyone she reads about in the obituaries has died...

When a celebrated government official is found dead after his surprise birthday party, a young police officer uncovers a terrifying world of financial crime, sinister cults and disturbing secret lives....

Kazantzakis's classic novel, blacklisted by the Vatican, filmed by Scorsese, has been labelled heretical, blasphemous, and also a masterpiece. His Christ is an epic conception, wholly original.'When Kazantzakis describes the...

A touching testament to the power of letter writing and connecting with strangers, for fans of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and What You're Looking For is in the Library....

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025A New York Times Notable Book of 2025A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025A Guardian Book of the Year 2025An Observer Book...

On the edge of the Siberian steppes, a young boy grows up listening to his French grandmother's stories of France just before the Great War - a nostalgic portrait of...

Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead.Once there he meets a German general who is...

The uplifting new Japanese cat novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Travelling Cat ChroniclesTHE PERFECT READ FOR CAT LOVERS'Quirky and life-enhancing' THE TIMES Biggest Books of the Autumn...

A multi-award-winning Italian debut, from a bold and original new voice in contemporary queer literature.Jonathan is 31 years old, living in Milan with his boyfriend of three years and their...

Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape?, Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light, by esteemed Austrian playwright...

A Daily Express Best Book of the Year'An extended meditation on human frailty and the lack of spirituality in the Western world . . . Houellebecq displays compassion and empathy,...

Praise for "The Red Notebook" "An endearing love story written in beautifully poetic prose. It is an enthralling mystery about chasing the unknown, the nostalgia for what could have been,...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our ageFlorent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness....

On a stormy summer day the Aosawas, owners of a prominent local hospital, host a large birthday party. The occasion turns into tragedy when 17 people die from cyanide in...