A RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME - A woman approaching the 'invisible years' of middle age abandons her ...

Half Swimmer. Noun. A German term for one who has recently learnt to swim but hasn''t yet mastere...

Rio de Janeiro, the 1970s. One hot Brazilian summer, Camilo meets Cosme and the two boys fall in ...

Sea Now

It''s a rainy weekend in Bogota, and Melissa is about to graduate from high school. If, that is, ...

A family at the end of the 20th century in all its complexity: full of secrets, questions, and lo...

This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The central character in ...

On the outskirts of Tbilisi, in a newly independent Georgia, is the Residential School for Intell...

A new surgical intervention promises to free people from mental anguish. The doctor promises pati...

In this story we hear the voices of an Icelandic fishing village. On a summer''s day a young woma...

Denmark's foremost literary author turns crime fiction on its head.Bess and Halland live in a sma...

It's October 1918 and the war is drawing to a close. Toussaint Caillet returns home to his wife, ...

A fascinating portrayal of life under communism in the heart of Europe. This is the story of a wo...

Translated from French by Adriana Hunter. A little girl lives happily with her mother in war-torn...

Johanne is a young woman in her twenties who lives with her mother. When she falls in love with I...

An extraordinary piece of international survival literature, joining the likes of Primo Levi and ...

Hinrich takes his existence at face value. His wife, on the other hand, has always been more inte...

In these six short stories, Andrea Lundgren explores a liminal space where the town meets the wil...

A beautiful novella in 50 short chapters and 10 pictures about the life of one of the most influe...

The eight short stories in breach explore the refugee crisis through fiction. Dlo and Jan break i...

Finland, 1809. Henrik and Erik are brothers who fought on opposite sides in the war between Swede...

Most novels are written by professional writers using second hand material. Not this one. Peirene...

Marie-Constance loves reading and possesses a beautiful voice. So, one day she decides to put an ...

Over the course of a single day - the day before today - the hero of this novel and his adored wi...

Marcelino lives alone on his parents' farm, set deep in the beautiful but impoverished countrysid...

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with liquid gold, to highlight and cele...

A short, gripping existential parable, Venom introduces the UK reader to the world of Saneh Sangs...

A young academic goes to ever greater lengths to keep a secret that sits at the heart of her work...

Luang Paw Tien, the abbot of Praeknamdang Temple, is ninety-three years old and a treasure trove ...

This is the story of an affair, or two. With a sharp wit, and a refreshing honesty, Le Blevennec ...

In a small seaside town on the French coast lives Uncle. Prone to drinking, hoarding and gorging,...

Equal parts postmodern, tender and satirical, Glória follows Benjamin, Daniel and Abel, three bro...

With undisguised glee, a nameless narrator unravels twisted tales of moral turmoil, all of which ...

On the heels of a cryptic mistake, Nat arrives in the rural village of La Escapa. She rents a sma...

Set in Copenhagen during the terrifying polio epidemic of the early 1950s, Iron Lung is a poetic ...

Full of humour and insight, Nolwenn Le Blevennec's latest novel explores growing up, growing apar...

The social contract is non-negotiable. The woman must be a mother. The woman must be desirable. T...

At Wybrany College, there are two kinds of student: the children of the rich and powerful, and th...

Twin brothers, Amed and Aziz, live in the peaceful shade of their family's orange grove, but when...

A girl and her abusive, neglectful parents arrive in West Germany from the East. The girl receive...

The impressively entertaining tale about the frailty of human civilisation by the leading Flemish...

On the Greenwich Line traces the absurdities of racism, austerity, and bureaucracy in contemporar...