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

'Cian Ferriter's Brink opens with its title poem and it stays on the brink of various worlds and ...

'Cian Ferriter's Brink opens with its title poem and it stays on the brink of various worlds and ...

Take Six;Six Catalan Women Writers

Rapture of the Deep

Bloodlines

The Girl with the Teddy Bear

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, ...

Boito's stories combined decadence, the macabre, the demonic and depraved female heroines. They w...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1908) is Gaston Leroux's masterpiece and during his lifetime his ...

Some Lives

My Name Is

Clasp is award-winning Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa's first English-language collection of poem...

Co-Wives, Co-Widows is the first adult work of fiction from the Central African Republic to be tr...

'Literally translated as 'down there', là-bas is here used by Huysmans in its other sense: Hell. ...

Following his widely acclaimed prose memoir 'The Invisible Prison' and his 'New and Selected Poem...

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

In Hooker’s second collection of poems, she moves increasingly beyond the confines of home into a...

From the opening poem in which he recognises himself “raving blessedlybetween truth and delusion”...