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First (authorised) publication (in any language) of a wildly popular, anonymously written serial novel that started life as a blog during the US invasion of Iraq

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

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On the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, C is flat broke. Once a renowned textile artist, she's now the sole proprietor of an arts supply store in Lower Manhattan. Divorced, alone, at loose ends, C is stuck with a struggling business, a stack of bills, a new erotic interest in her oldest girlfriend, and a persistent hallucination in the form of a rogue garden gnome with a pointed interest in systems collapse . . . C needs to put her medi...

First US publication of this unsentimental, sympathetic novel of the unemployed young in Thatcher's Britain. From Barry Hines, writer of A Kestrel for a Knave and The Gamekeeper>The author's unerring eye for detail and ear for dialogue are utterly engaging and evocative. Looks and Smiles is a gritty and poignant bulletin from a forgotten period of British history. A Barry Hines classic.ines classic.

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

Fanciful, philosophical science fictions by the writer of Signs Preceding the End of the World, one of The Guardian's '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'.

Shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award and the 2012 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

A 'Gen Y' Gatsby - shy poet Jim falls for motorbike-riding oil heiress Adrienne amid the high-rise canyons of downtown Tulsa. Jim Praley is home from college, ready to unlock Tulsa's secrets. Adrienne, a high-school dropout with a penthouse apartment, takes a curious interest in Jim. Through her eyes, he will rediscover his home town.

Martin John sits beside you on the train. Can he see that look on your face? He needs to see that look in your eyes, the surprise of his touch upon your leg, and your repugnance. Despite his work's distractions, his evil flatmate's enmity, his worn-out mother's admonishments, his own rules and routines, nothing can diminish his determination to touch - and to repel.

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

Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty backrooms of long vanished used bookstores, a love letter to bookshops and bookselling, and a browser's dream wish list of often overlooked and unloved novels, short story collections, poetry collecti...

Following in the footsteps of such chroniclers of American absurdity as Cormac McCarthy, Joy Williams, and Charles Portis, Robin McLean's Pity the Beast is a mind-melting feminist Western that pins a tale of sexual violence and vengeance to a canvas stretching back to prehistory, sideways into legend, and off into a lonesome future. A brutalised woman is left for dead. But dead is the one thing she isn't. With a stolen horse and rifle, she esc...

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In this searching lament by the award-winning author of We That Are Young, Taneja interrogates the language of terror, trauma and grief, the fictions we believe and the voices we exclude.

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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-novel - is available again, to inspire a new generation of mavericks.

A master of contemporary Arabic fiction returns to English translation with a cunningly layered dark comedy about the powers and limits of creativity in a war zone.

In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane ‿ perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose ‿ began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a report on each. His original intention was to lodge the reports in two of his legendary filing cabinets: in the Chronological Archive, which documents his life as a whole, and the Literary Archive,...