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Type: Book
Date: 01 Sep 2015

The Story of the Lost Child

Against the backdrop of a seductive and perilous Naples, Elena Ferrante delivers a searingly honest chronicle of a lifelong female friendship

Type: Book
Date: 19 Jan 2017

The Traitor's Niche

Ismail Kadare conjures up a surreal tale of tyranny and rebellion, in a Kafkaesque land where languages are banned and memories extinguished

Type: Book
Date: 09 Aug 2018

The Impostor

A hero - or a liar? Javier Cercas unravels the real Enric Marco and delves into humankind’s deep and conflicting needs for both fiction and truth

Type: Book
Date: 17 Sep 2020

Serotonin

Michel Houellebecq’s devastating story of solitude, longing and individual suffering, which is also a powerful indictment of modern life

Type: Book
Date: 10 Oct 2019

The Other Name: Septology I - II

In the first volume of a trilogy of novels, Jon Fosse presents us with an indelible and poignant exploration of the human condition

Type: Book
Date: 20 Aug 2020

An Inventory of Losses

With an engaging intensity of feeling, Judith Schalansky's strange and wonderful book pays elegant homage to past beauty now lost to this world

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1970

The Vivisector

Patrick White explores the inner demons of the artist through Hurtle Duffield, an egotist incapable of loving anything except what he paints

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1971

Briefing for a Descent into Hell

An incoherent man is found wandering the streets of London, at the start of Doris Lessing’s brilliant and disturbing novel about madness and release

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1974

The Bottle Factory Outing

Surprises abound in Beryl Bainbridge’s unsettling comic novel, praised by fellow author Graham Greene as both ‘outrageously funny and horrifying’

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1976

The Doctor's Wife

A surgeon’s wife embarks on a passionate affair with a younger man in Brian Moore’s powerful portrayal of a woman transformed by love