Melissa BankGenerous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the...

Tom RachmanFrom the author of The Italian Teacher, this acclaimed debut novel set in Rome follows the topsy-turvy lives of the denizens of an English language newspaper. NAMED ONE OF...

RA Lafferty Here at last are the finest of Lafferty's shorter works, stories about - * A man who found one day that he knew absolutely everyone in the world...

Frederik Pohl Here is a collection of short pieces about the many marvelous discoveries made by humankind using Heechee technology. Each piece includes illustrations by Kelly Freas. First published November...

Aldous Huxley "After the Fireworks is a major work and a turning point for Huxley, leading directly to Brave New World.” —Gary GiddinsIn After the Fireworks, three lost classic pieces...

Arnon Grunberg Longlisted for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award"Grunberg chronicles the mistakes of a morose Dutch bourgeois and constructs a delectable psychological thriller."—Le FigaroJörgen Hofmeester once had it all:...

Nikolai Gogol Gogol's stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details — as Gogol put it — "to extract...

Alice Hoffman Told from Gretel Samuelson's sly and knowing perspective, Local Girls charts her progress as she navigates from childhood to the brink of womanhood, picking her way though the...

Primo Levi The Sixth Day and Other Tales is a wonderful collection of short fantasy tales by Primo Levi. These works of supreme imagination demonstrate the breadth of Levi's graceful...

Jonathan Coe This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.It's about the legacy of war and...

Nadine Gordimer This rich story collection will be a reminder to nadine gordimers countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power a woman gauges the...

Haruki Murakami   A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny...