Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down...

The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the worldAutumn 1969, and soon I would be 20.When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first...

VINTAGE CLASSICS WEIRD GIRLS: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of women’s weird fiction.'The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out.'In the throes of a ‘temporary nervous...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREMissing, a young girl, Dora Bruder, age 15.One winter night in 1941, a Jewish girl runs away from her Paris boarding school. Stumbling across her disappearance listed in an old newspaper, Patrick Modiano finds...

These intimate love letters reveal the close, open relationship between de Beauvoir and Sartre, two of the twentieth century’s most groundbreaking thinkers - two people living out their philosophy.De Beauvoir lived her feminist philosophy. She...

ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTENWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION'No one forgets this book' Independent'One of the best first novels I remember ... uniquely unsentimental' Guardian'There is humour as well as tragedy in...

Enchanting and fascinating, discover the extraordinary world of Britain's ordinary garden birds, related.In the late 1930s, Len Howard packed up her life in London, bought a plot of land in Sussex and built herself a little house there. This was to...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TIMOTHY SNYDER Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer’s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we...

'The French noir novel you need to help you vent your frustrations right now’ LitHubMurder isn’t always ugly.Aimée is drop-dead gorgeous, razor-sharp, and lethally efficient. A killer with a cool head and a taste for chaos, she...

In summer, and particularly when the wind blows south-west across the lawn, the sceptic tank gives out a strong stench… ‘Oh, it is a body,’ the girls say. ‘We have a body in there. No one you know. It decomposes, of course, but...

Cathy is a beautiful and willful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave...

'Explosive, absurd...with plenty of oh la la and even more zut alors' The TimesWHEN IT COMES TO REVOLUTION, EVERYONE PAYSIn Paris, the Nada gang – a small cell of left-wing radicals – hatch a plan to kidnap the U.S...

Twenty years ago Putin's fiercest critic was gunned down.Anna Politkovskaya was one of the great, heroic investigative journalists of the modern era. Shining a light on Russian state corruption, human rights abuses, and the brutal conflict in Chechnya...

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is brilliantly reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism.With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and...

Shakespeare's Othello is ingeniously transplanted into a high school setting in this taut story about teenage friendship and racial tension.Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat’s son Osei knows he needs an ally. Luckily he...

Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is revolutionised by the iconic Jeanette Winterson in her page-turning, heart-breaking story of a baby girl banished from home.A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged...

Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined in Edward St Aubyn's gripping story of a media mogul who has lost control.Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over...

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is completely reimagined in this unforgettable zombie love story.‘R’ is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R...

Shakespeare’s Pericles is transformed by Mark Haddon into a vivid, breathtaking adventure that zooms between antiquity and the present day.A motherless girl grows up in isolated luxury, hidden from the world by her wealthy father. She...

Welcome to Taipei, Taiwan. The Chinese Civil War is now long over, but its shadow still haunts the city’s lost souls.On the eve of her retirement, a dancer recalls the gentle boy she met in her youth. She loved him then – and never saw him...