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Altai

by Wu Ming

“Altai is a great historical thriller and the prose has all the surface glitter of the Grand Canal or the Golden Horn.” – Edward Stourton, Financial Times

9 posts
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise

by Georges Perec

Darkly funny account of the office worker’s mindset by the celebrated French novelist

10 posts
Beauty and the Inferno

by Roberto Saviano
Essays on art, politics and life from the best-selling author of Gomorrah
3 posts
The Blue Manuscript

by Sabiha Al Khemir

An enchanting story of the search for an ancient artifact.

The Book of Saladin

by Tariq Ali

A rich and teeming chronicle set in Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem

4 posts
The Conspiracy

by Paul Nizan

A sardonic reflection on the idealisms and absurdities of intellectual youth.

1 post
Corker's Freedom

by John Berger
"A contemporary masterpiece"—New York Review of Books
13 posts
The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat

by Steven Lukes

A whirlwind fictional tour through the utopias of our modernity.

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele

by Olivier Guez

An extraordinary novel about one of history’s most reviled figures
Drought

by Ronald Fraser
A brilliant novel about memory, love, and the clash between the old world and the new, set in 1950s Spain
4 posts
Fear of Mirrors

by Tariq Ali
The story of a family whose life mirrors the rise and fall of the Soviet Union
8 posts
Field of Honour

by Max Aub
Evocative, modernist novel chronicles the prelude to the Spanish Civil War.
2 posts

The Fountain at the Centre of the World

by Robert Newman
The first novel by the acclaimed comedian, on the anti-globalisation movement.
From A to X

by John Berger
A beautifully imagined story of love and resistance, by one of the foremost novelists of our age.
14 posts
George & Martha

by Karen Finley
An outrageous political satire by America's most daring performance artist and writer.
I’m With the Bears

Edited by Mark Martin
“This collection is a jolt out of our armchairs, a call to arms ... written with verve and style”—Chicago Tribune
28 posts

Kitchen Curse

by Eka Kurniawan

Nominated for the Man Booker International, Eka Kurniawan brings his short stories into English for the first time

5 posts
The Lamentations of Zeno

by Ilija Trojanow

A literary fiction about climate disaster and a scientist imploding on a journey to the Antarctic

15 posts
The Lives of Things

by José Saramago

A surreal short story collection from the master of what-ifs

7 posts
Man Tiger

by Eka Kurniawan
Winner of the Financial Times Emerging Voices Fiction Award 2016, and longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016
9 posts

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