LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019
A brilliant collection of fictions in the vein of Roald Dahl, Etgar Keret and Amy Hempel. These are stories of what the world looks like from a child’s pure but sometimes vengeful or...
This is an entirely riveting crime novel that travels from the Russian criminal underworld of London to Russian Brooklyn and Russia itself. "Londongrad" opens on the fringes of New York, where Brooklyn abuts on Queens and where planes heading for...
The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and
collects a few small chunks of it.
Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long
journey on the comet.
They form a mini-society and coping with...
When starving artist Edward Tache begins working as a property caretaker on a remote Caribbean estate, he thinks he’s found paradise. But he soon discovers there’s more to the island than just palm trees, sand and water.There’s the beautiful...
In You Are Having a Good Time, Amie Barrodale’s collection of highly compressed and charged tales, the veneer of normality is stripped from her characters’ lives to reveal the seething and contradictory desires that fuel them. In “Animals,”...
It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were...
From Booker-shortlisted Irish author, two families living the dream in small town America are forced to confront their guilty secrets in the aftermath of a shocking death.
This is just after the financial crash — people are beginning to...
The African is a short autobiographical account of a pivotal moment in Nobel-Prize-winning author J. M. G. Le Cl zio's childhood. In 1948, young Le Clezio, with his mother and brother, left behind a still-devastated Europe to join his father, a...
In the heart of the Amazon, NRI operative Danielle Laidlaw makes an incredible discovery - a translucent Mayan stone generating massive waves of energy while counting down toward the infamous apocalyptic date of December 21st, 2012. And somewhere,...