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An exploration of families affected by terminal cancer, in one rural corner of Portugal. The author accompanied a palliative care team to Tras-os-Montes and gathered the voices and stories of those affected and facing death.

* Levrero is a giant in Latin American literature, seen as a master and point of reference for the most exciting authors working in the Spanish language today (eg Alvaro Enrigue, Valeria Luiselli, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Alejandro Zambra), many of whom will be excited to talk and write about his work here in the U.S. * Levrero's writing, using humor, domestic life and an exploration of the self within an auto-fictional framework, makes him a na...

An empowering and fundraising feminist collection of brand new short stories, essays and poems by leading authors in response to the pandemic crisis

. Looking to commission an introduction from a fan of Norah Lange's previous works. . Translated by award winning translator Charlotte Whittle and we may commission translators note. . First translation in English of Norah Lange's memoir. . An influential literary figure in early 20th century Argentina and friend of Borges, Neruda and García Lorca . This will appeal to fans of Woolf, Borges, Leonora Carrington and more modern writers such as F...

From mid-century working-class experimentalist Ann Quin, author of Berg, comes this poetic, erotic and psychologically charged mystery.

I wrote this book because I didn't want Amy Winehouse to be dead.

The #1 Catalan bestseller and winner of the Llibreter booksellers prize, Baltasar's novel is a forthright and wickedly funny novel of family relationships and one woman's search for freedom

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

Never before available to readers in the UK, these brilliant and idiosyncratic short stories stand alongside the fictions of Borges, Beckett and Nabokov.

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

This enigmatic novel, from one of Britain's most important writers of the post-war avant-garde, explores suicide, marriage and class.

A woman fights to keep her daughters safe in the wake of war and political trauma in Central/ Latin America.

Set in Spain and Sweden, twelve dark and funny short stories of characters who range from messy to outright deviant.

Mexican American author Yuri Herrera details the history of the fire at the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company in Pachuca, Mexico in March 1920, and contends that the Company may have been guilty of murder.

Beauty and poverty, violence, addiction and brotherhood. Written with unstoppable flow, Wretchedness mixes high and low culture in an inimitable way.

Short stories capturing the surrealism and absurdity of neoliberal Britain's current affairs filtering through to the level of the everyday, set to be accompanied by Etchells' work in other media such as theatre and the visual arts.

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

From the author of The Iliac Crest, one of Mexico's best novelists, a Lynchian noir where an Ex-Detective tracks a missing couple in a ravaged no-man's-land.

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

The experiences of the generation which followed the Latin American revolutionary generation are explored in this story playing out across Cuban and Dominican settings, in which a retired artist and former heroin addict whose father was a revolutionary leader encounters an artistic and lurid set of characters after expulsion from rehab. A mellower turn from Indiana following "Tentacle". Translated by Sydney Hutchinson.