Thunderstruck a other stories

Thunderstruck a Other Stories

From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House - finalist for the National Book Award - comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in t

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Pitch a Glint

On its original publication in 2000, Pitch a Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler's childhood home, a village brut

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Slip of a Fish

A single act unravels a mother-daughter relationship in this uncompromising debut. Winner of the 2018 Northern Book Prize

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Last Letter to a Reader

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I’ll Sell You a Dog

A painter-turned-taco-seller, famous in Mexico City for his ‘Gringo Dog’ recipe, hates retirement. Plagued by the literary salon bumping about his b

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Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs

Award-winning Barcelona novel with Bolano-esque humour: with women, men, lovers, loners, Marilyn (a cat) and Bret Easton Ellis (a dog).

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Go Back at Once

A gloriously eccentric fantasy by the "most profound writer of what we call horror stories." -Peter Straub

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Iliac Crest

On a dark, stormy night, an unnamed narrator is visited by two women: one a former lover, the other a stranger. They ruthlessly question their host an

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Vampire in Love

Gathered for the first time in English, Vampire in Love offers Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas’s finest short stories. Selected and brilliantly

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Brother in Ice

This hybrid novel uses the stories of polar exploration to make sense of the protagonist's own concerns as she comes of age as an artist, a daughter,

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Get 'em Young, Treat 'em Tough, Tell 'em Nothing

From the author of the acclaimed Pity the Best, a collection of new stories plumbing the depths of American laughter and evil.

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Tripticks

Ann Quin’s wildest, funniest, freakiest, kinkiest, and best novel – a road-trip novel, a graphic novel, a spy novel, a Beat novel, an anti-n

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Keeping the House

A bewitching debut novel, at once a family saga and a tale of the London underworld.

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Somebody Loves You

A major poet's fiction debut; a childhood not of screams but silence; a sensuous edge-of-danger tone, a la Deborah Levy

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Praiseworthy

In a small Aboriginal town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionar

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Something Like Breathing

Friendship blossoms between an enigmatic girl and a whisky distiller's granddaughter on a remote Scottish island.

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Pity the Beast

A mind-melting feminist Western pinning a tale of sexual violence and vengeance to a canvas stretching back to prehistory, sideways into legend, and o

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Fit

This cutting but compassionate debut novel charts a young girl's rise from life in a squalid rural foster home to a dazzling career in the big city.

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Don'T Try This at Home

A girl who repeatedly halves her boyfriend; a chip-shop waitress who turns into Elvis; a family of conceptual artists who truly live their art. Every

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I am the Brother of XX

A wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggy's gothic imagination know

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Your Love is Not Good

Falling in lust with a gorgeous white model could be a great career move for a Korean American painter, unless it's the surest route to self-destructi

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Love

A short, suspenseful Norwegian winter's tale crafted in beautifully spare and precise prose. A harrowing, tragic story of a mother and her son.

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Isolarion

A travel writing classic, with a new preface by the author and an afterword by Geoff Dyer.

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Verdigris

A lonely little boy's unlikely friendship with his grandparents' grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in

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Ti Amo

A novel of incredible beauty and truth, filled with tenderness and grief, love and loneliness, Ti Amo explores the emotional world of a woman losing h

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Border Districts

Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane's final work of fiction, is a hypnotic, precise, self-lacerating `report' on a life

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To Leave with the Reindeer

A woman challenges biology and convention in her struggle for freedom: a multi-voiced enquiry into the frontier between humans and animals.

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Notes from Childhood

From the author of People in the Room, a literary memoir from Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer, a friend of Borges, Neruda and Lorca.

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Made in Saturn

A generational portrait of Latin America in its post-revolutionary come-down, through the eyes of a recovering heroin addict and artist.

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Under the Rainbow

'It is always a worthwhile ambition to get through a project like this without being punched.'Writer and urban explorer Attlee reads the signs and mes

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Sweet Days of Discipline

Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the

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Lightning Rods

Failing salesman Joe has a dream - or rather an outrageous fantasy. Holed up in his trailer, Joe devises a jaw-dropping plan that will stamp out sex

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Phenotypes

Paulo Scott’s second novel to appear in English probes the old wounds of race in Brazil; and in particular the loss of a black identity independent from the history of slavery. Exploratory rather than didactic; a story of crime; street-life; and regret as much as a satirical novel of ideas; Phenotypes is a seething masterpiece of rage and reconciliation.

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Proleterka

Compressed, delicate and brutally precise, Proleterka is a fierce coming-of-age story.

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Barn 8

An unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers

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Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs

A masterful collection of essays from one of Australia's most searching and expert writers.

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Remainder

Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash, a deceased mother is lost in transit, and three children of ex-militants face a past they can neither rem

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Oldladyvoice

Nine-year old Marina may swear like a sailor and think like a novelist, but even the most exceptional child can get lost on the road to adulthood.

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Kingdom Cons

Beats, daggers, girls, and graft: can the Artist sing truth to power where a Mexican drug baron holds court?

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Trysting

Grains of sand, bridges, shampoo, a bike, board games, yoga, sellotape, birds, balloons, tattoos, wandering hands, tweezers, maths, fish, letterboxes,

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Slash and Burn

A woman keeps her daughters safe in the wake of war and political trauma in Central and Latin America.

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Malacqua

Four days of rain trigger strange events across Naples: ghostly voices are heard, musical coins appear. As a journalist searches for meaning, we follo

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I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me

The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers a hilarious and prize-winning tale of immigrants, students and gangsters in Barcelona

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In Case of Loss

In Case of Loss reveals Seiler's essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Beautifully anecdotal and associative, they thr

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Martin John

Provocative, Beckettian tour-de-force by award-winning author Schofield takes readers into the head of a pervert haunting the London underground

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Signs Preceding the End of the World

Makina knows how to survive in a macho world. Leaving her native Mexico in search of her brother, she's smuggled into the USA bearing two secret messa

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You, Bleeding Childhood

Childhood obsessions - from games to comic books - come back to haunt the present in hilarious and unsettling ways in a first translation of the popul

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Anything That Moves

From the leader/composer for the beloved cult band Xiu Xiu: a memoir told in 33 outrageous sexual experiences-some mortifying, some tender, some unexp

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Tentacle

Plucked from post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, Acilde finds herself at the heart of a prophecy: she must travel back in time and save the ocean from dis

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People in the Room

A young woman spies three women in the house opposite. She imagines them as criminals, as troubled spinsters, or as players in an affair. Lange's hall

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Lublin

On the road to Lublin, plagued by birds that whistle like a Cossack's sword, three young lads from Mezritsh brave drought, visions, bad shoes, Russian

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Polyglot Lovers

Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners.

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Luminous Novel

Levrero's touching and funny magnum opus about domestic life, the writing process, love, the fear of death, pets, and a funereal pigeon

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Dear Evelyn

Born between the wars in working-class South London, Harry is a scholarship boy. Full of literary dreams, he visits Battersea Library and discovers Ev

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Split Tooth

An Inuk girl grows up in the Artic in the 1970s. In this acclaimed debut novel - haunting, exhilarating, and tender all at once - Tagaq explores a gri

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Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

Helen Moran's adoptive brother is dead. Helen's adoptive family is estranged. She alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into her adopti

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Against Memoir

A queer countercultural icon opens up about all things artistic, radical and romantic. Winner of the PEN American Center essay prize.

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Sworn Virgin

Hana Doda is an ambitious literature student in cosmopolitan Tirana. Mark Doda is a raki-drinking, chain-smoking shepherd, living alone deep in the Al

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Visitors

Welcome to the darkest timeline . . . the UK debut of one of America's most gifted young writers is a chilling fable about love in an age when even ou

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Lunatics, Lovers and Poets

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes, six Hispanic and six English-language authors have each contributed a

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