Fiction: Special Features

New work from the acclaimed author of The Crab Nebula and Palafox.

In this collection of thematically related stories, celebrated Belgian author Fran?ois Emmanuel shows his indebtedness to the great poetic iconocla...

Atavisms is an original and unsettling portrait of Quebec, from the hinterland to the metropolis, from colonial times to the present, and beyond. T...

V. S. Pritchett, one our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a co...

In Arthur Schnitzler's poignant novella, Casanova's Return to Venice, the famed gambler, adventurer and seducer Casanova has been reduced to melanc...

'Chilling, spectacular stuff' Mark BillinghamAfter the first snowfall of the year, a young boy wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappear...

Three women who almost had it all...Norah thinks she has made it when she qualifies as a lawyer in Paris; Fanta works her way into a prestigious te...

At the beginning of America's occupation of Iraq, 15 years after leaving Baghdad, Zeina returns to her war-torn homeland as an interpreter for the ...

Sunday Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong captivated readers with her Women of the Otherworld series of supernatural thrillers. In this new ...

Subtitled An Exploration of the Musico-Erotic, this novel is an experiment in blurring the boundaries between the syntax of music and that of poetr...

Long-listed for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story PrizeFly Away Home is Marina Warners third and eagerly-awaited collection of short stories. Inspir...

Yoruba legend and culture were the source of much of Amos Tutuola's writing and the stories collected here are no exception. They feature character...

Hate skews reality even more than love.In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi'...

This is the limit - how far would you go?Helium-3 is a rare element that promises to solve all the world's energy problems - and it's been discover...

The crew of a French reconnaissance plane during the First World War consisted of just two men: a pilot and an observer. Two such men are Jean Herb...

Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O'Brian - made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and elegantly repackaged. ...

Judd has a lot to prove. He needs to deliver a result and solve the murders quickly but the longer this takes and the deeper he digs the more compl...