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In the town square of Coronel Pringles stands a lime tree from which the author's father used to brew a sedative tea. This Proustian infusion evokes dark memories of the 1955 anti-Perónist revolution, which dashed the family's middle-class dreams. The Lime Tree is a portrait of the artist as a child and a lucid analysis of a family's social trajectory.

This new collection of rare and unpublished writing by the cult 1960s author Ann Quin explores the risks and seductions of going over the edge. The stories cut an alternative path across innovative twentieth-century writing, bridging the world of Virginia Woolf and Anna Kavan with that of Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus.

A powerful and surprising novel from the author of "Open Door" and "Paradises", it follows a house husband who discovers he has a rather gruesome talent.

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 knows no limits. Whether telling of mystics, tormented families or famously private writers, Jaeggy's terse, telegraphic writing is always psychologically clear-eyed and deeply moving, always one step ahead, or to the side, of her readers' expectations. In this, her long-awaited return, we read of an...

A new edition of the 2012 novel which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, from the author of "Hot Milk", which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

This collection cements Joanna Walsh's reputation as one of the sharpest writers of this century. Wearing her learning lightly, Walsh's stories make us see the world afresh while showing us she has read the world. In 'Like a Fish Needs a . . .' - perhaps the funniest, most freewheeling story ever written about cycling (and Freud and and and . . .) you read shenanigans worthy of Flann O'Brien. Meanwhile, in 'Worlds from the Word's End', Walsh c...

It's dangerous to be a Catholic in the age of Elizabeth. Lucky, then, that Francis Tegian is a Catholic nobleman of exceptional musical talent. An epic, trans-continental tale weaving the lives of William Byrd, Monteverdi and Shakespeare into the tale of Tregian, creator of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

Independence in the Albanian mountains means a vow to become a man -- independence in America means reclaiming her womanhood.

The Matiushin Case is one of the darkest and most powerful works of fiction to appear in Russian in the last twenty years. Deriving from Pavlov's own traumatic experience as a conscript in the Soviet Union, it follows the ordeals of Matiushin, a sensitive, disoriented young man, damaged by brutality first within his family and then the army.

A collection of short stories from the author of "Swimming Home", which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The title story was shortlisted for the BBC International Short Story Award 2012, and features alongside 9 other tales.

Race, politics, identity, photography: South African writer Ivan Vladislavic reminds us nothing is black and white.

In 1993, prompted by the closing of his favourite Johannesburg haunt, Cafe Europa, a newly retired grumpy and conservative man embarks on a grandiose plan to enlighten his fellow citizens, with disastrous, hilarious and poignant results.

A young mother learns to survive among the snakes, sleaze, and slums of Buenos Aires.

What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is growing up in his drug baron father's luxury hideout, shared with hit men and dealers. Down the Rabbit Hole, a masterful and darkly-comic first novel, is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child's wish.

A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way to the top of the sport. Old friends talk all night. She imagines their future together. Short stories about people who have lost out and about their hopes. Meyer strikes the tone of our times, and finds the grace notes.

Set in Buenos Aires in 1992, where hacker Felipe Felix is charged with finding the witness to a very public crime. After a decade trying to forget the Falklands War, he is forced to confront the city and finds that the war never really ended at all. Part detective novel, cyber-thriller, inner-city road trip, and war memoir.

1975. The cusp of Argentina's Dirty War. The magnate Tamerlan has been kidnapped by guerrillas, demanding a bust of Eva Peron be placed in all 92 offices of his company. The man for the job: Marrone. His mission: to penetrate the ultimate Argentinian mystery: Eva Peron, the legendary Evita. A caustic and original take on Argentina's history.

A panoramic novel about a Filipino port community fighting against its worst elements. Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" meets "The Wire" in this evocative and richly populated debut.

A streetwise heroine travels from Mexico to the USA via the mythical and criminal underworlds, in the search for her brother. From a highly acclaimed Mexican author.