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Jay McInerneys new novel seems from the outside to be composed of the most disheartening elements: The Good Life is about a group of privileged New Yorkers who are led to reassess their lives—and become in many ways better people—in the...

Two young American couples are enjoying a vacation in Cancun, and make friends with Mathias, a German tourist. He and his brother Heinrich had been travelling together, and the latter has disappeared while investigating Mayan ruins with a woman...

In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. Theres and dependable Toshi, brainy Terauchi, Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused, and Kirarin, whose late nights and...

Beneath this story lie deeper questions: of what drives women to prostitution, of the relationship between the individual and society, as well as unexpected philosophical considerations such as an examination of the sense of self, perhaps...

The Daily Telegraph The Bedroom Secrets of the Masterchefs does rattle along with impressive energy. - James Walton Fianacial Times flickers with the dynamism, black humour and bravado that is Welsh at his best. - Melissa...

George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not at quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood, or manly bonhomie. He does not understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. The secret...

When archaeologist Louise Cantors son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place. Henrik had kept many things back from her...

The result is a powerful work that transcends the specific tragedy of the Hungarian Jews. Kertész recalls the iniquity of imposed difference through the eyes of a naive teenager. He writes in a bleakly matter-of-fact tone, superbly captured...

Ida Joner is a sweet girl, adored by her mother Helga. She loves animals, and is looking forward to her tenth birthday. One day she rides out on her yellow bike to buy some sweets. When she fails to return 35 minutes after she should have, Helga...

Philip Roth’s award-winning first book instantly established its author’s reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters. Goodbye, Columbus is the story...

The focus of this novel is extremism. It tells the tale of two Kashmiri villages whose inhabitants gradually get caught up in communal violence. As we know from Yugoslavia, hatred takes on especially horrific manifestations when neighbors turn...

Is it the responsibility of Nobel Prize winners to showcase their brilliance or ensure a strong readership If intelligent readers don’t understand the author, what’s the point The Washington Post likened Slow Man to an episode of...

If youre familiar with Arnaldur Indridasons Reykjavik murders series, then youll already know what a fine writer he is. If you havent come across these novels before, they will appeal to anyone who enjoys Ian Rankin or Henning Mankell. Indeed the...

Le Bal depicts the life of the Kampfs who, having recently gone up in the world thanks to luck with the stock decide to throw a ball in order to launch themselves into society. Their daughter Antoinette, who has just turned fourteen, dreams...

Paul Dunn, the Times Ackroyd the novelist re-emerges triumphantly from the mud of his excavations’. Waterstone’s Books Quarterly ‘an exciting read... several splendidly uncanny scenes which are quite unsettling…a short...

Lasduns acclaimed first novel, The Horned Man, followed three short story collections and several books of poems. This second full-length outing seductively and stylishly dissects a life of Cold War fabrication told in flashback. Stefan Vogel,...

Joseph OConnors Redemption Falls is a dense text, frighteningly thick and closely typed. But within the covers is a work of exquisite art. The novel centres around an Irish revolutionary, latterly Acting Governor of the Mountain Territory in...

Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call semantic (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his...

A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to...

When a young woman dies peacefully in her sleep, her husband sits distraught at her side. Returning to his job at the Finland CID he finds that a murder inquiry is just beginning. A woman has been smothered with her pillow while she slept and, as...