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A love song between an angel and an accountant in the suburbs of London from Man Booker shortlisted LevyShe is a shimmering, melancholy angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell. He an accountant, dreaming of a white Christmas, a little garden and someone to love. She attempts to fly him away from his habits and fears, while he holds on tight to all he knows. Man Booker Prize shortlisted Deborah Levy whips up a storm of r...

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Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealthy Parisian family. Her twin sister is a famous movie star, which Vanessa resents deeply and daily. The only man Vanessa ever loved recently killed himself by jumping off the roof of her building. It's a full life. Vanessa has just started working on an English translation of a titillating, experimental thriller by a dead author when she's offere...

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Here in one beautiful collectorâEUR(TM)s edition are HerreraâEUR(TM)s 3 era-defining novels: Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Transmigration of Bodies, and Kingdom Cons

Turn that ugly flab into rock-hard abs with this one sardonic debut novel! (Doctors hate this.)

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

A smart and stylish account of the bigotry lurking in hearts and institutions alike

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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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.

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.

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

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 messages appearing in British windows during the pandemic, and interviews the people who made them.

A divorce leads a man to Buenos Aires. In a trendy cafe he witnesses a minor accident involving Enrique, the owner of his guest house, this accident reunites Enrique with a childhood friend, with whom he had miraculously escaped from a raging fire in a miniature replica of a boarding school. So starts a true master-yarn from Booker finalist Aira.

She thought that it was precisely when things get uncomfortable or can't be shown that something interesting comes to light. That is the point of no return, the point that must be reached, the point you reach after crossing the border of what has already been said, what has already been seen. It's cold out there.'This hybrid novel--part research notes, part fictionalised diary, and part travelogue--uses the stories of polar exploration to make...

After a four-day deluge, Naples is flooded. Buildings collapse, sinkholes appear. Strange events spread across the city: ghostly voices emit from the Castel dell'Ovo and a neglected child finds a singing coin. A melancholy journalist searches for meaning, as the narrative takes us into the minds of those who have suffered in the floods. Mysteriously withdrawn from publication until Pugliese's death in 2012, and only now appearing in English, M...

Tapping into topical discussions of race and identity in the US and elsewhere, this is a bleakly comic tour de force that is both poignant, funny and unsettling.

Failing salesman Joe has a dream - or rather an outrageous fantasy. Because holed up in his trailer Joe comes up with a jaw-dropping plan that will stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace and make his fortune. Win-win? As he turns his life around, "Lightning Rods" takes us to the very top of corporate America.

A new edition of the collection of short stories by an author who has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize twice. 'Levy's pen is a volatile weapon' "The Observer