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Four novellas that offer a tantalising glimpse of Sicilian life, from the 1848 revolution to the death of Stalin

A crime has been committed in a public place. A dark-suited man was shot as he ran for a bus. The investigating officer of the crime soon finds that, in this small Mafia-run town, no one saw him fall...

Sir Peter Stothard's captivating memoir, written in Egypt as the country moved towards revolution: a life seen through the prism of his enduring fascination with the enigma of Cleopatra

Two brothers find themselves stranded in an otherworldly village in this comic coming-of-age story set during the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia

From the acclaimed author of The Dig, a tautly-crafted novel that packs the tension of a thriller and the emotional heft of a tragedy

A potent, prize-winning novel of rural life and familial loss - and an unforgettable introduction to one of the most distinctive new voices in British fiction

A lucid introduction to the chilling but clear system of thought of the most notorious anti-Semite in history

From one of our most engaging theological thinkers, here is a lucid, enlightening introduction to how the Qur'an has been understood by Muslims in the traditions of Islam and in worship

It's Jesus. He's coming back. To Brussels. Get ready...

Mark Rowlands explores the intimate relationship between running and thinking, especially thoughts about the meaning of life, in this brilliant follow-up to The Philosopher and the Wolf

From an impressive new talent comes an absorbing and original novel of politics, family ties and betrayal set in Georgia, USSR, from the 50s to the 90s, told through the eyes of an apparatchik of the communist regime

From a prize-winning Italian author comes a brilliantly inventive novel about the final years of Charlie Chaplin's life, which is both a vivacious portrait of a comic legend and a love letter to the era of silent cinema

An award-winning novel with a cult following since its original publication in 1991, Mating is a life-affirming comedy of manners as well as a deeply serious investigation of the politics of desire

From the author of The End of the Alphabet, the magical story of an unlikely romance between an illiterate Parisian baker and a woman with her head permanently buried in a book

A provocative and cinematic tale of isolation, friendship, the uses of sex and the art of finding salvation in the most unexpected of places.

Don't let death get in the way of a good chat.

Two of Sciascia's most powerful novellas published side by side: One Way or Another is a chillingly prophetic work, while in The Knight and Death a mysterious handwritten note proves fatal

A collection of the best of Sciascia's gritty, darkly glittering short stories

A funny and tender celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess, from the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

An older man writes to and about his wife... in this moving debut novel by the illustrious translator and political commentator

For nearly 30 years, the Maze prison, ten miles outside Belfast, played a unique role in the Northern Ireland troubles. This book of photographs documents the physical structure of the place and gives the viewer some experience of the psychological impact of being inside the Maze.

This is a practical book and a compelling and entertaining one, from a prize-winning food writer, full of unexpected revelations and facts about the food that we eat.

A surreal exploration of the combined love and loathing felt between a family of a hundred brothers as they try to settle their differences

A powerful and disturbing novel about Cambodia from an award-winning Canadian writer - an extraordinary act of empathy for those who suffered under the Khmer Rouge

In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families

A dazzling follow-up to the novel Faces in the Crowd, this collection of literary peregrinations around the margins of metropolitan life demonstrates Valeria Luiselli's equal virtuosity as a writer of non-fiction

A mesmerising account of the author's search for wild otters in the remote places of Britain; a beautifully written blend of natural history, memoir, literary history and travel

An unforgettable portrait of the Austro-Hungarian author of The Radetzky March, this biography in letters - selected here for the first time by Michael Hofmann - is classic European literature at its finest

An irreverent travel guide to Nigeria, a country which 'gets fewer voluntary visitors than the moon', by the daughter of Ken Saro Wiwa.

Novelist Sarah Moss's compelling account of living in Iceland with two small children, in the wake of the financial crisis and in the year the volcano erupted