Fiction: Special Features

A wildly comic story about the fate of a Czech family from the 1960s onwards. At turns humorous, ironic and sentimental, an engaging portrait of th...

As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a so...

Japan's mythology is alive with gods, spirits and monsters. It draws on Buddhist and Shinto traditions to explain the nature of the world of the is...

Joel Lane (1963-2013) was one of the UKs foremost writers of dark, unsettling fiction, a frank explorer of sexuality and the transgressive aspects...

THE RICHARD & JUDY PICK 'Deliciously dark and utterly addictive my favourite Ruth Ware yet LUCY FOLEYEveryone wanted her lifeSomeone wanted he...

One of World Literature Today''s 75 notable translations of 2017. A foul-mouthed Prague prostitute muses on her profession, aging, and the nature o...

A Collection of Humorous Short Stories from an Award-Winning Author Award-Winning Finalist in the Short Story category of the 2019 International B...

International bestselling author Jesper Stein's award-winning debut thriller introduces Danish DCI Axel Steen.'Stein's mysterious and melancholy de...

A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds libera...

The novel tells the story of a forgotten albeit dramatic chapter from Manipur's history, drawing out characters who were otherwise hidden behind ol...

An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime. Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The sprightly narrative and vivid evocatio...

'Discovering Eva Ibbotsons books is one of the nicest things thats ever happened to me. The most beautiful, delicious, wry read' Marian KeyesCurl ...