A rich historical novel of Jacobean power games - politics and palaces, parliaments and surely poison too? A first novel by the biographer of Adam Smith and Edmund Burke.
A fine debut novel about a family's trajectory from India in 1898 to Idi Amin's Uganda, and then to Canada in the 1990s; it's underpinned by a secret, and a letter.
A few strange hours in the troubled life of a teenage boy: another short, mysterious novel from the author of Lanny and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
The Trelawneys are about to lose their beloved castle once again - this time to the dodgy-dealing crypto-currency-maniac husband of Ayesha who saved it only a decade ago... More fun and rack... read more
First translation of his novel set in Naples in the shadow of WW2, about a railway clerk, thwarted in his artistic ambitions, and his long-suffering family. Published in Italian 20 years ago... read more
A collection of Stein's fiction and essays, including portraits of Alice B. Toklas, Juan Gris, Picasso and Matisse. One of Pushkin Press's pleasing small-format paperbacks.
Another slim, powerful novel from this excellent writer: as in The Order of the Day, he shows the web of overlapping and competing interests amongst politicians, industrialists and financier... read more
An accomplished thriller that connects an Iraqi former interpreter with a body on a beach and a vastly lucrative defence contract: Powers, author of the brilliant The Yellow Birds, is a vete... read more
Witty, romantic, light but undeniably literary... the great Chilean novelist has done it again. There are echoes of Auster in his writing: a relish for books about books, stories within stor... read more
Witty, romantic, light but undeniably literary... the great Chilean novelist has done it again. There are echoes of Auster in his writing: a relish for books about books, stories within stor... read more
A Korean novel, beautifully translated, in which an unexpected pregnancy forces two sisters to confront the legacy of their own mother's neglect. Delicate, sad, a little dreamy.
A recently unearthed treasure, written before the Sexual Offenses Act of 1967, this previously unpublished novel is a wild ride and important record of gay Soho in the 60s. Leda hops from tr... read more
The penultimate novel by the great Marías, who very sadly died in September 2022. Themes, characters and ideas resurface throughout his work, both the standalone novels and the astonishing ... read more