Julian BarnesBeginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told...

Debora LevyShort-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. With an Introduction by Tom McCarthy, author of C. As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above...

Rachel Seiffert   A debut novel that retells the history of twentieth-century Germany through the experiences of three ordinary Germans.Helmut: A boy born with a physical deformity finds work as...

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre In this novel, Antoine Roquentin, an introspective historian, records the disturbing shifts in his perceptions and his struggle to restore meaning to life in a continuing present...

Vladimir Nabokov   Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive,...

Hermann HesseNarcissus is a teacher at Mariabronn, a monastery in medieval Germany, and Goldmund his favourite pupil. While Narcissus remains detached from the world in prayer and meditation, Goldmund runs...

Pamela PeledForty-something year old Jennifer Moran spends a lot of time on the couch, eating chocolate. Widowed at an early age, she has brought up her daughter and taught a...

Arundhati RoyJust in time for the elections, Arundhati Roy offers us this lucid briefing on what the Bush administration really means when it talks about “compassionate conservativism” and “the war...

Edward St AubynNever Mind, the first installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose Cycle, follows five-year-old Patrick through a single day, as the Melrose family awaits...

Salman RushdieIn a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling...

Amos Oz‘In a world full of hype, noise, and confusion, the simple lucidity of The Same Sea is totally unexpected’ New York TimesAn intimate, everyday tale of unrequited love and...

Ann Patchett Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett's second novel to be published in the UK. John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father....