Meet John Cromer, one of the most unusual heroes in modern fiction. If the minority is always right then John is practically infallible. Growing up disabled and gay in the 1950s, circumstances force John from an early age to develop an intense...
From traffic control to Customs hall, from the airport manager's office to lay-over apartments in `Stewardesses' Row' the rooms are filled with men and women whose private pressures and passions match the fury of the blizzard that sweeps across...
A daring novel that made Christine Angot one of the most controversial figures in contemporary France recounts the narrator’s incestuous relationship with her father. Tess Lewis’s forceful translation brings into English this audacious novel of...
The new novel from internationally acclaimed author José Manuel Prieto, Rex is a sophisticated literary game rife with allusions to Proust and Borges, set in a world of wealthy Russian expats and mafiosos who have settled in western Europe.
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В книге вас ждут чудесные сказки, знакомые нам с детства, – «Кот в сапогах» (Puss in Boots) и «Красная шапочка» (Little Red Riding Hood).
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Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars...