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Love, envy and revenge in divided Britain

The amusing reflections and touching anecdotes of a writer whose journey of self-improvement begins with the basics: improving his handwriting.

Readers of "Pond" and Djuna Barnes are set to be absorbed in this reissued Swiss novel's skewed vision. A young girl gives a lurid account of her coming-of-age in the hulk of a Yugoslavian passenger vessel, fraternising with the sailors and neglecting her father.

The much-anticipated reissue of the resurgently popular 1960s avant garde writer's great novel of a hair restorer named Berg attempting to kill his father who is also his love rival. Follows the excited reception of Jennifer Hodgson's edited collection of Quin's stories and fragments "The Unmapped Country" (2018).

Purportedly the Australian master's final work, reflecting on the bittersweet nature of the literary life. Teju Cole, Ben Lerner and Lidija Haas are fans.

An unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in 1940s rural Australia, originally published in 1974. Out of boredom, fear and fascination a young boy transfigures his surroundings into an imagined world with horse racing at its centre.

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

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

The author of "Bret Easton Ellis & The Other Dogs" returns with a satirical feminist novel critical of the literary establishment. Winner of Sweden's prestigious August Prize.

This unexpected and wide-ranging novel on the subject of the relationship between humans and animals from the multi-award winning French writer addresses the perils of domestication across species, achieving a polyphonic effect through the interweaved voices of vets, farmers, butchers and many more.

In the aftermath of a fiftieth birthday party, a chance comment makes a writer reflect on a gap in his understanding of the world, sending the writer to a cafe to attempt to piece his thoughts together. Arifa Akbar in the "Financial Times" praised "Birthday" for how it 'combines brevity with so many possible meanings.

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 remember nor forget. Intense, intelligent, and sensitive to the shape and weight of words, this remarkable debut presents a new way to count the cost of a pain that stretches across generations.

An unconventional love story from the author of "The Story Of My Face", which was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Follows two people who shape each other as they, their marriage and their country change over 70 years.

Apocalypse, sex and time travel shape this exciting feminist dystopia novel, equal parts telenovela and "The Tempest". Rita Indiana is also a prominent musician with Rita Indiana y los Misterios.

The debut novel of the popular short story writer, in which an enigmatic loner and a whisky distiller's granddaughter become friends. Tasting notes for Scotch are incorporated throughout.

On a dark and stormy night, an unnamed narrator is visited by two women: one a former lover, the other a stranger. They ruthlessly question their host and claim to know his greatest secret: that he is, in fact, a woman. In increasingly desperate attempts to defend his masculinity, perplexed by the stranger's dubious claims to be the writer Amparo Dávila, he finds himself spiralling deeper into a haunted past that may or may not be his own. Thi...

In tales of rare wit, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of longing and danger. An alcoholic actress takes her children to live in 'a rusted box on stilts' in the desert. In an exclusive island resort, a young family's holiday has terrible consequences. A newly-wed couple who, while still 'newly everything', fall in with a misanthropic painter burned by love. 'On the beach, they agreed, their daydreaming was sometimes dangerous.' Sch...

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 Appenzell'. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the off-handed knowingness of a remorseless young Eve, the narrator describes life as a captive of the school and her designs to win the affections of the seemingly perfect new girl, Frederique. As she broods over her schemes a...

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