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Type: Book
Date: 18 May 2016

A General Theory of Oblivion

Playful and full of warm humour, José Eduardo Agualusa’s dazzling human drama explores the thrills, hopes and dangers of radical change

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: 11 Feb 2016

Mend the Living

In a 24-hour whirlwind of death and life, Simon and Claire’s lives will be fatefully joined, in Maylis de Kerangal’s extraordinary story

Type: Book
Date: 30 Sep 2015

Tram 83

In Tram 83, Fiston Mwanza Mujila plunges the reader into the atmosphere of a gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colourfully exotic

Type: Book
Date: 03 Mar 2016

The Four Books

Yan Lianke’s compelling novel tells the story of one of China’s most controversial periods, the Great Famine, in which at least 45 million people died

Type: Book
Date: 15 Sep 2015

Man Tiger

Eka Kurniawan weaves a supernatural fable with suspenseful mystery in this taut, elegant and magical novel

Type: Book
Date: 02 Mar 2017

The Explosion Chronicles

Yan Lianke’s fantastical satire about a culture so obsessed with an ever-expanding lust for power and money that it has forgotten its soul

Type: Book
Date: 23 Feb 2017

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

An intelligent single woman’s life lacks focus. She should learn to drive. How hard can it be? Very, it turns out, in Dorthe Nors’ wry, poignant tale

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: 04 May 2017

War and Turpentine

Stefan Hertmans’ imaginative reconstruction of a damaged life across the tumultuous decades of the 20th century; a deeply moving portrayal of family, grief, love and war