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translated by Michael Glenny With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural...

A Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pr...

In 1918, Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A...

Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George, an English professor in suburban California left heart...

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other Europe...

Anton Vowl is missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and, i...

Discover George Eliot's first novel, a tale of rural tragedy and redemption. It may seem like an old tale: the beautiful village girl, her faithful...

This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story...

With vast psychological acuity and an unblinking insight into the nature of political and domestic warfare, Yukio Mishima creates a portrait of a m...

The scene is 1920s Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression o...

Senhor Jose is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry. Among the file-cards f...

One of the finest mountaineering books. A phenomenal tale of strength and valour. In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climb...

Julian English prides himself a member of his hometown's social elite, but from the moment he throws a cocktail in the face of a powerful business ...

In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak, indecisive leadership the Ru...

BALTASAR & BLIMUNDAby José Saramagopublished by Vintage * In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in...

A grieving family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion. A frustrated love triangle, brought together by a plundered Aztec idol, spills ov...

translated by Michael Glenny When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To ...

Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne ...

No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose ...

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational s...

BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITEDby Aldous Huxleypublished by Vintage * In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a futu...

Discover Vonnegurt's funny absurdist novel about the human condition. In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miracul...

Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of ...

translated by Margaret Jull Costa After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever. He witnesses Noah's ark, the destruction of the Tower ...

translated by Richard Howard Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography. Examining the themes of presence a...

Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it. It's the closing months ...

Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life--from 1929, when Isherwood left Eng...

A troubled young man commits the perfect crime: the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but he c...

translated by Margaret Jull Costa In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people...

translated by Tim Wilkinson From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, awaits execution. His char...

translated by Edith Grossman Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himsel...

Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christoph...

ELEPHANTby Raymond Carverpublished by Vintage * These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in...

Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empi...

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristoc...

Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir of his father...

Haunted houses, spectral chills, and of course, the odd cat... In this volume, Audrey Niffenegger has brought together her selection of the very cr...

Christopher Isherwood introduces Sally Bowles in this pre-war Berlin novel. Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, exce...

translated by Elizabeth Chandler and Robert Chandler Moscow in the 1930s is a symbol of Soviet paradise; a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's wo...

The silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Life on the river is brutal and unknown threats lurk in the darkness. Ma...

A unique and captivating collection of Hemingway's writings on war, including extracts from his unparalleled war novels, some classic short stories...

Dazed by the disappearance of his muse, Argentinian writer Horatio Oliveira wanders the bridges of Paris, the sounds of jazz and the talk of litera...

You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. ...

With its unique, roving structure and beautiful descriptions, In Patagonia offers an original take on the age-old adventure tale. Bruce Chatwin's j...

It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his desert...

translated by William Weaver "Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his exped...

José Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country. From the misty mountains of the...

translated by Tim Wilkinson "No!" is the first word of this haunting novel. It is how a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer answers an acquaintance...