In the late 1930s, two men - Yaacov Markovitch, perennially unlucky in love, and Zeev Feinberg, virile owner of a lustrous moustache - are crossing the sea to marry women they have never met. They will rescue them from a Europe ... Zobraziť viac
Pushkin Press: Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen,... Zobraziť viac
Seventeen-year-old Hollis Beckwith is on a quest to conquer the world of tabletop gaming. But her boyfriend’s ‘No Girlfriends at the Table’ rule means that Hollis will have to find her own group if she wants to join in... Zobraziť viac
Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find... Zobraziť viac
Pushkin Press: The compelling and timely new novel by the author of One Night, MarkovitchDr Eitan Green is a good man. He... Zobraziť viac
Ever since The Darkening, survival has been a struggle. The people of the Field toil on parched earth, trying to forge a life amid dwindling resources. As one of the Giften, Ruthie is a saviour to her isolated community: her hands hold the rare ability... Zobraziť viac
In 1934, the Austrian painter Christiane Ritter travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen to spend a year with her husband, an explorer and researcher. They are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores... Zobraziť viac
A scintillating collection of inspirations for Wes Anderson's star-studded tenth film The French Dispatch—fascinating essays on the expatriate experience in Paris by some of the twentieth century's finest writers... Zobraziť viac
A stunning classic set in Italy's most vibrant and turbulent metropolis - Naples - in the immediate aftermath of World War Two. These lively and superbly written stories helped inspire Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels... Zobraziť viac
Don't you worry, son. Whatever it is that's been killing the sailors, I will kill it. In this science-fiction classic - reimagined by Dave Eggers in modern times, and from the point of view of the fourteen-year-old Consuelo ... Zobraziť viac
The most famous Italian novel, retold for children... Zobraziť viac
Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France’s German enemies whenever the whistle blows, ... Zobraziť viac
In a small town in western Nigeria, four young brothers - the youngest is nine, the oldest fifteen - use their strict father's absence from home to go fishing at a forbidden local river. They encounter a dangerous local madman who predicts ... Zobraziť viac
The first ever English collection of stories by Johannes Urzidil - a friend of Kafka and an unjustly overlooked writer. A maid who is unexpectedly bequeathed her employers' worldly possessions when they flee the Nazi occupation... Zobraziť viac
The prize-winning debut novel by the author of Before the Feast Aleksandar is Comrade-in-Chief of fishing, the best magician in the non-aligned States and painter of unfinished things. He knows the first chapter of Marx's Das Kapital ... Zobraziť viac
Shiori knows at heart that she’s a troubadour. She may be completely tone-deaf, but she won’t let that stop her living a life dedicated to music. Even when her dominant older sister... Zobraziť viac
Mrs Golightly doesn’t like animals – and now a whole zoo has moved next door! No matter how hard she tries to shoo them away, she finds animals everywhere: a kangaroo on the loo, a giraffe in her bath, and even ants in her pants... Zobraziť viac
A building full of secrets. A key that will unleash them all The K Apartments for Ladies in Tokyo conceals a sinister past behind each door... Zobraziť viac
These stories conjure a vanished Russia, where Orthodox Christianity coexists with the shapeshifters and house spirits of ancient folk belief. Celebrated for her sublime wit and graceful style, Teffi here plumbs the darker aspects of psychology... Zobraziť viac
Yutu lives in a remote, Arctic village with his elderly grandmother. Their traditional way of life is threatened by the changing snow and ice, which melts faster every year... Zobraziť viac