Sobriety and moderation are alien concepts to the men in Dimmy's family. Useless in all other respects, his three uncles have a rare talent for drinking, a flair for violence, and an unwavering commitment to the pub. When his mother soon leaves and Dimmy grows up amid the stench of stale beer, he seems destined to follow the path of his forebears and make a low-life career in inebriation, until he begins to piece together his own plan for the ...
Love in the time of Communism: a rich, colourful novel about the perils and pleasures of being gay and coming out from behind the iron curtain, from Poland's answer to Almodóvar.
Paperback outing for a terrifically commercial follow-up to Wintering, in which our hero comes of age in the swinging sixties - he moves to London, grows his hair, chats up girls, and dreams of finding himself in Marrakech...
Ludwig Unter¿s life held such promise. His parents were artists and, from an early age, his own musical genius had marked him out for a stellar career in the world¿s concert halls. In his mother¿s imagination, Ludwig is already on the way to surpassing her most ambitious dreams for him. But in reality, and for now, he¿s playing in local cocktail bars and the two of them are living alone in a storm-lashed clifftop cottage in East Anglia. As the...
Peter Crumb is a man whose life has been derailed by a single, devastating act of violence in his past. Now, in what he intends to be his last week on Earth, he is determined to leave his mark upon humanity - randomly, unjustly, and with infinite attention to detail. Monday means murder...
A tautly-plotted and suspenseful debut about an intense war-time friendship, a suppressed passion, a jealous crime, and a corrosive secret kept for decades.
Love in the time of Communism: a rich, colourful novel about the perils and pleasures of being gay and coming out from behind the iron curtain - from Poland's answer to Almodóvar.
The finest essays of Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller, selected from twenty years of her fearless, intelligent, unsettling truth-telling in a life lived in opposition, courage, secrecy and uncertainty
This is a practical book and a compelling and entertaining one, from a prize-winning food writer, full of unexpected revelations and facts about the food that we eat.
From the author of "Chez Moi", a tenderly drawn and hauntingly beautiful novel of loss and loneliness, friendship and love. *Also appeared in January Buyer's Notes*
Trade paperback. A powerful and disturbing novel that revisits the genocide of WWII to ask troubling questions about the past. Translated by Alex Zucker.
Paperback edition of the funny story from a successful screenwriter, about responsibility, recklessness and the divine intervention of a hairy biker. A feature film adaptation is under option. '...a startling novel' "Guardian