At the confluence of autofiction and sociology, The Years is 'a Remembrance of Things Past for ou...

A paean to the transformative powers of language-learning from the winner of the 2019 Fitzcarrald...

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

With shades of Clarice Lispector, Mavis Gallant and Lucy Ellman, this late-period novel by the es...

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

A Shining

Written in melodious and hypnotic 'slow prose', A New Name: Septology VI-VII is a transcendent ex...

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

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the É...

Humane, thought-provoking and moving, The Undercurrents is a hybrid literary portrait of a place ...

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

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

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

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...

Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, her first away from home, when she worked as a holiday ...

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

An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending...

Drawing from personal experience, Despentes shatters received ideas about rape and prostitution, ...

A fragmentary, propulsive novel exploring rave culture from the 'most important trendsetter in Ge...

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...

Melancholy I-II

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

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

Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over...

The Accidentals

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

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

The Edge of the Alphabet

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

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

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

A collaborative fiction about grief, friendship, and how to tell stories that are not yours to tell.

Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich, What Have You Left Behind? p...

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

Companions draws together Hesselholdt's four short novels centring on a young woman, Camilla, and...

Seeing Further

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

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a pl...

What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity...

With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded ph...

Written in three parts The Things We've Seen is a dazzling and anarchic exploration of social rel...

Mary McCarthy, one of the leading American intellectuals of the twentieth century, skewers her st...

Suppose a Sentence

In her brilliantly inventive debut collection, Vanessa Onwuemezi takes readers on a surreal and h...

Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown int...

Strangers I Know