With the stylistic mastery of Georges Perec and nihilism of Michel Houellebecq, Perfection, super...

A beautiful meditation on war, violence, memory and injustice, Minor Detail cuts to the heart of ...

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion documents the desires and indignities of...

The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her deco...

Melancholy I-II

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love a...

An Inconvenient Place

In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky's Reminiscences of Tols...

The Use of Photography

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025.

Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, treats one of the most consequential decisions of ea...

After the publication of Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, his long awaited first original book, c...

Childish Literature

The second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a 'short and striking...

Dysphoria Mundi

A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community, Brian is also a tangential wor...

This is the probing story of a twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and a tra...

Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experienc...

Transcendence for Beginners

The follow-up to Diane Suess's Pulitzer Prize winning frank: sonnets, Modern Poetry writes an exp...

'I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables,...

A Shining

In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior -...

The latest novel by 2015 Prix Goncourt-winner Mathias Enard, The Deserters lays bare the devastat...

Lili is Crying, Hélène Bessette's debut novel, explores the fraughtness and depth of the troublin...

Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they re...

An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother, and of both women's st...

frank: sonnets

I is Another: Septology III-V, the second instalment in a major new work by Jon Fosse, one of Eur...

Concrete notions about subjectivity and the self are called into question over the course of this...

The Edge of the Alphabet

Published in the UK for the first time, The Possession is a striking meditation on jealousy and a...

In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the...

With The Appointment, her audacious debut novel, Katharina Volckmer challenges our notions of wha...

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates ...

Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explore...

The Accidentals

One of our leading thinkers forges a new language for feminism, weaving together stories of visio...

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only

A story of remote violence and a work of praise for a persistently lively world, brilliantly writ...

What is it like to live with chronic insomnia? In Sleepless, Marie Darrieussecq recounts her own ...

A debut poetry collection wrangling the various selves we hold and perform - across oceans and wi...

In 2015, a year after it started, Bushra al-Maqtari decided to document the suffering of civilian...

In Rombo, seven inhabitants of a remote mountain village in Friuli talk about the impact of the t...

Camilla, Charles, Alma, Edward, Alwilda and Kristian are a circle of friends hurtling through mid...

A genre-bending and thought-provoking examination of capitalism and cancer - and recent Brazilian...

Seeing Further

In the tradition of Walter Benjamin and with the journalistic attunement of Joan Didion, Jacqueli...