Fiction: Special Features

A sweet slipstream stew, a call and response to Hemingway's In Our Time, Geoff Schmidt's debut collection Out of Time is a meditation on meaning an...

From a particularly humiliating accident at scout camp, to the final stages of terminal illness, Daniel Pennac's warm, witty and heart-breaking nov...

The stories collected here illuminate two recent phenomena in China. The first migrationthe up to the mountains, down to the villages movement of t...

The novel, a depiction of social and political events in the capital during the run up to a national election, contains a grim cast of characters: ...

This third collection of short stories by Alice Tawhai explores the complex mix of beauty and heartache, resilience and joys of people living in se...

From writer, artist and philanthropist, Gloria Vanderbilt, who sponsors one of the largest literary prizes in Canada, and who supports this unique ...

A poverty-stricken, nineteenth-century guitar virtuoso navigates the tricky political landscape of Parisian society as he comes out of retirement f...

The human head remains in a state of consciousness for one and a half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at...

The civil servant Ivan Matveich and his wife Yelena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition in a shopping arcade of a crocodile owned by a Germa...

In The Death of a Civil Servant, an administrative clerk accidentally sneezes on a hierarchical superior at the opera, which results in great embar...

Delicate and assured, the stories in My Escapee illuminate unseen forces in womens lives: the shameful thought, the stifled hope, the subterranean ...

The world of Tell Everyone I Said Hi is geographically small but far from provincial in its portrayal of emotionally complicated lives. With all th...