The Nobel laureate's unfinished science fiction novel-available in English for the first time ever Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz was one of the twentieth century's most esteemed poets and essayists. This outstanding tr...

This acclaimed novel is set during the Lebanese Civil War and offers a rare depiction of women's experiences amid this sprawling, region-defining conflict. In Alawiya Sobh's hands, the details of everyday life mix with female voices from across class...

These are sensual, shapeshifting poems by this award-winning and "compelling pleasurable poet" (The Guardian), which unfold like a series of haunting dreams.

"Below the tree free-riding on the water a shadow plays, beguiling, ripe for idolatry. I believe the tree and note it down as the answer to its own question". Rebecca Watts's debut collection is a witty, warm-hearted guide to the English landscape,...

A profound and very human account of the early years of the war, told from the perspective of a father rather than combatants, but no less revealing. Mr Britling lives in the quintessentially English town of Matching's Easy in Essex. He is a great...

This novel tells the classic tale of the mischievous "Master of Sherwood Forest", who lives the outlaw life with Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet and his band of Merry Men, bedevilling the implacable Sheriff of Nottingham during the reign of Ric...

Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer Laszlo Foldenyi as "one of the most brilliant essayists of our time". Foldenyi's extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to...

From the canals of St Petersburg, the steppes of Central Asia, the mountains of the Caucasus, and the landscape of Palestine, this collection from award-winning Russian poet Sergey Stratanovsky is overtly conscious of the continuing dislocations and...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postwar Communist regime, "Midway on Our Life's Journey" flew in the face of the reigning aesth...

Toby Litt is best known for his "hip-lit" fiction, which, in its sharing of characters and themes across numerous stories and novels, has always taken an unusual, hybrid form. In "Mutants", he applies his restless creativity to nonfiction. The book b...