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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...

A masterly work from a writer with "the uncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her America" (National Review), A Garden of Earthly Del...

In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on h...

In this interrogation of the last century of American history & foreign policy, Power draws upon declassified documents, private papers, unprec...

translated by Jay Rubin For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent t...

In Freud's view we are driven by the desire for pleasure as well as by the desire to avoid pain. But the pursuit of pleasure has never been a simpl...

Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi ...

Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for the...

City Voices is the first showcase of postwar Hong Kong literature originating in English. Fiction, poetry, essays and memoirs from more than 70 aut...

Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to La...

From Chaucer to Billy Collins and from basset hounds to brindle bull terriers, Doggerel presents a robust brood of the most charming verse tributes...

Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies...

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

Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, sp...

Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named W...

Jumping Through Hoops is a collection of nine intense and dramatic stories that sheds new light on the experiences of Chinese women during the Seco...

What is the moment, that exact moment when everything changes and the friends you have been, become the lovers you might be? Soul mates from birth ...

In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the buildi...

translated by Jay Rubin When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kiz...

In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers - a 7,000-page top-secret study of U.S. decision-m...

This is the first book in English to analyse the stunning rise to prominence of cultures of dissident sexuality in Taiwan during the 1990s. Positio...

Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents...

Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter and her husband in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous, constantly expanding conglomerat...

After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England to convalesce. There he befr...

translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's mid...

Charles Darwin's classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the w...

In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, an...

A blind man spends his days roaming the beaches of Kenya collecting shells, classifying them by feeling their whorls, spines and folds in his finge...

For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part...

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athen...

The Unswept Room is a dazzling collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and rhythm, and a moving, elegiac to...

translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but t...

Developed out of the aesthetic philosophy of cha-no-yu (the tea ceremony) in fifteenth-century Japan, wabi sabi is an aesthetic that finds beauty i...