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A dark, playful novel based on the author's memories of growing up on the remote island of Annobon, part of Equatorial Guinea. Lyrical and moving, it will appeal to fans of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Chinua Achebe.

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Stories of searching, desire and grief that radically rewrite the South African experience from the perspective of a diaspora generation

Ivan Vladislavic invites readers to do some detective work of their own. Each story can be read as a story or you can try to tease out the clues and patterns. Whether skewering extreme marketing techniques or constructing dystopian parallel universes, Vladislavic will make you look beyond appearances.

An epic poem from the author of the novel "Swimming Home", which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012. A love song between an angel and an accountant, it's passionate, erudite and humorous. Levy will do a UK book tour on publication. 'A crazily beautiful, astonishing, original work of art.' Joanna Kavenna

A collection of award-winning short stories encompassing fairytale gifts, gutter living, and a chip-shop waitress who turns into Elvis.

Set in the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope tale is peopled with soldiers and prisoners, hoboes and refugees and mice that steal medicines. Poetic, tragic and darkly comic, the novel is at once a grotesque portrayal of late Soviet reality and an apocalyptic allegory in the vein of Faulkner and Kafka.

Women between mothers and daughters, between husbands and possible lovers and lovers of their husbands, women dressed up bright as children so their own children won't lose them, women watching the grey elegance of the Parisiennes, women between countries and languages, between the rich and the poor, women terrifyingly aware of their place or lack of it - the vertigo of empty space. These women observe everyone including themselves and those n...

Losing her son in a lorry accident, a woman abandons her lover and her life on the Mexican border and becomes a domestic servant in Madrid, following an awkward ménage-à-trois, a timber agent is blackmailed into introducing his lover's boyfriend to his best client, a depressed, misfit French teacher rejects the overtures of students and would-be lovers, all the while sharp-eyed young Araceli watches over everything from her decrepit apartment.

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An eye-witness story by a journalist and a photographer who accompanied Syrians attempting the Mediterranean crossing on smugglers' boats. Takes readers beyond the headlines to see the real people involved in this murky yet life-saving exodus, and shows how each refugee has a different story and character. Passionately appeals for a more humanitarian refugee policy.

A new novel from the Mexican author of "Down The Rabbit Hole" and "Quesadillas", following the life of an old man who was once an artist, and then a taco seller. A comic take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity with scurrilous antics and oddball characters.

A plague has brought death to the city. The government does nothing. And two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker a peace between them. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city's underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage. Yuri Herrera's novel is a response to the violence of contempo...

A new, B format edition of the comic novel from the Mexican author of "Down The Rabbit Hole", with an introduction by Man Booker shortlisted author Neel Mukherjee.

...little Odyssey, a little Ulysses, the story of one day's journey, skillfully playing in tandem with another, life-long journey.

Tying in with Hay Festival's 2016 focus on Shakespeare and Cervantes, this anthology's acclaimed writers offer us new and intriguing perspectives on Cervantes and Shakespeare's work.

A novel of yous and mes, of hims and hers, Pagano choreographs a multiplicity of objects, gestures, phrases, places and persons through which love is made real.

Translated by Margaret Jull Costa. A collection of short stories from one of the great European storytellers, Enrique Vila-Matas.

In a small town in Argentina, a seamstress is sewing a wedding dress when she suddenly fears her son has been kidnapped and taken to Patagonia. She takes up chase in a taxi, and her husband takes off after her. Aira is a Man Booker International finalist, and is considered to be amongst the most important and influential writers in Latin America today.

When her partner disappears, a young woman drifts towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. She finds herself living with an ageing ranch-hand, although a local girl also proves irresistible. This evocative book makes a quiet case for the possibility of finding contentment in unexpected places.