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At the end of the First World War in Germany, the journalist and theatre critic Kurt Eisner organised a revolution which overthrew the monarchy, an...

A young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her aloof demeanour and el...

The stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of the darkness of our desires. From an isolated bamboo gr...

Translated by Anthea Bell One of the twentieth century's great humanists and a hugely popular fiction writer, Stefan Zweig's historical works bring...

Translated by Will Stone When I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free - There is somethi...

Translated by Anthony Briggs The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama), originally published in Russian in 1834, is one of the most famous tales in Russi...

A compelling portrait of one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the bestselling writers of the twentieth. In this vi...

A hunter prowls the night spotsof ShinjukuBut he’s the one walking into a trap… Ichiro Honda leads a double life: by day a devoted husband and a di...

What does it mean to lose your roots within your culture, within your family? And what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely p...

translated by Oliver Ready No writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by ...

translated by Ruth Martin Joseph Roth's sensibility-both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane-produced some of the most ...

translated by Nicolas Slater Pasternak Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its untidy complexity. His sh...

translated by Mara Faye Lethem Paula's partner has died in a car accident - but no one knows her true grief. Only hours before his death, Mauro rev...

Twin sisters Hassana and Husseina's home is in ruins after a brutal raid. But this is not the end but the beginning of their story, one that will t...

Victor is a proud hunter with a house full of trophies, until one night a dream makes him think again. When he wakes he is determined to change his...

tanslated by Denise Muir Twins Viktor and Nadya are twelve years old when Hitler's Germany declares war on the Soviet Union. As the Nazi army crush...

translated by Sarah Moses It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governmen...

translated by Bryan Karetnyk In a Paris underpass, dirty and dressed in rags, stands a silent beggar. In the evening, he walks the deserted streets...

A masquerade ball cut short by a mysterious plague; a strange nocturnal ritual in the woods; a black bobcat howling in the night: these ten tales a...

translated by Max Weiss A hapless Aleppo bureaucrat is stranded in the middle of the deserted countryside as a violent storm sets in. When he seeks...

translated by David Bellos Old-school publisher meets e-reader: chaos ensues There's a lot of good to be said about publishing, mainly about the fo...

translated by Alison Watts Tokunaga is a young comedian struggling to make a name for himself when he is taken under the wing of Kamiya, who is eit...

translated by Ralph Manheim "My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I fe...

Ajo Kawir is one of the toughest fighters in the Javanese underworld, his fearlessness matched only by his unquenchable thirst for brawling. But th...

In the Viennese autumn of 1909, famed actor Eugen Bischoff is driven to suicide. All eyes are on Baron von Yosch, who was once the lover of the dea...

Death is in the air at one of Milan’s great fashion houses. As a new collection is unveiled, and the wealthy rub shoulders with the glamorous, owne...

Virginia Barkeley is a nice, well brought-up girl. So what is she doing wandering through a snow storm in the middle of the night, blind drunk and ...

Every Thursday for three years, Signora Giulia takes the train to Milan to visit her daughter. But one Thursday she simply disappears. And the case...

A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer’s cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And thoug...

In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange deta...

In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But am...

Japan, 1936. An old eccentric artist living with seven women has been found dead- in a room locked from the inside. His diaries reveal alchemy, ast...

translated by Ralph McCarthy, Charles De Wolf and Ginny Takemori From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in whic...

translated by Stephen Snyder Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted b...

translated by Ralph McCarthy It’s a set-up like a video game: two rival gangs fight to death for the control of a Tokyo district. In one gang, six ...

translated by Ralph McCarthy In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends is girls, ro...

translated by Simon Grove The K Apartments for Ladies in Tokyo conceals a sinister past behind each door; a woman who has buried a child; a scaveng...

The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the hou...

translated by Annie Tucker One stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one years of being dead, the beautiful Indonesian prostitute Dewi Ayu rise from h...