Serpent's Tail

Now in paperback, this is an anthology of true stories from The Moth, an organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Includes 50 n...

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their P...

Reducere. "An original and fresh tale, quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa. I enjoyed it very much."--Doris Lessing"A peculiarily African sens...

A new edition of the classic war novel, published to tie in with the anniversary of WWI. First published in 1929 as }The Middle Parts Of Fortune{, ...

Reducere. All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some are benign, others wicked. When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village,...

An honest and exploring exploration of female desire, challenging the way we think and talk about sex. Wendy Jones interviewed 25 women about their...

"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."Booklist"This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."T...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature2009'Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father, so Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu ...

Reducere. Kurt Janisch is an ambitious, but frustrated country policeman. Things are not going right in his life - at least not fast enough. But a country po...

Reducere. "On almost every page of this witty magical realist whodunit, we sense Couto's delight on those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiat...

Reducere. Two Alpine factory workers who dream of finding a good man. Employing the conventions of romantic fiction, Jelinek dissects the double-standard by ...

DescriptionThe light greenery of the early summer is trembling around Erik and Julia as they shove their children into the car and start the drive ...

"Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable."--Publishers Weekly"Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguilin...

Reducere. DescriptionA secret love which has a whole town talking ... and a small boy very worried. Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriag...

David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as di...

In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a...

Reducere. The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and...