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Double Negative
Race, politics, identity, and photography: South African writer Ivan Vladislavić reminds us nothing is black and white Dropout Neville Lister accompanies acclaimed photographer Saul Auerbach for a day, to learn a lesson for life. They play a game: from a …
Paradises
A young mother learns to survive among the snakes, sleaze and slums of Buenos Aires Paradises might be a reimagining of Camus’ Outsider – but in female form and living in 21st-century Buenos Aires. Our narrator allows the hazards of …
Quesadillas
Anarchy in Mexico – a comic novel about screwed-up families and politics from the author of Down the Rabbit Hole Villalobos’ first novel, Down the Rabbit Hole, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2011 and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2012 While …
All Dogs are Blue
One of the most original and comic voices to come out of Brazil – Souza Leão orchestrates a carnival among the mad All Dogs are Blue is a fiery and scurrilously funny tale of life in a Rio de …
Captain of the Steppe
From the winner of the Solzhenitsyn Prize 2012 and the Russian Booker Prize 2002 First volume in the Russian Booker winning trilogy Tales from the Last Days by a newly translated prize-winning & powerful Russian author. Deep in the …
Black Vodka
From the Man Booker Prize 2012 and BBC International Short Story Award 2012 shortlisted Deborah Levy Deborah Levy was also shortlisted for the 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards (UK Author of the Year) and 2013 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize. How …
Zbinden’s Progress
Gradually we get to know a man with a twinkle in his eye and a love of walking. We learn the captivating story of this man, his late wife, their son and the many people he has met along the way. Zbinden’s Progress is heart-rending, heart-warming and hilarious.
Lightning Rods
Helen DeWitt follows her extraordinary debut The Last Samurai with a sharp, uproarious satire on modern life and corporate culture. A novel in the spirit of Mel Brooks’ The Producers.
Happiness is Possible
Happiness is Possible tells the story of a writer late delivering his novel, unable to write anything uplifting since his wife walked out. But happiness seems determined to catch up with him as well…
Down the Rabbit Hole
Guardian First Book Award shortlisted Down the Rabbit Hole has created quite a buzz. It was published in Spain in 2010 (Anagrama) and is already being translated into Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Romanian, Dutch and more languages.













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