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A sweeper discovers a cache of black money and escapes to see the Taj Mahal with his underage mistress. An untouchable races to reclaim his life ... More

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This is a breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho. In this riveting collection of ... More

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By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding ... More

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Etgar Keret is an ingenious and original master of the short story. Radical, witty and always unusual, declared a 'genius' by the "New York Times", ... More

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This is a 'new' Tove Jansson, published for the first time in English. Tales of obsession and ambition are revealed and sparkle 'like buried treasure ... More

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A child is found standing on the street, with an empty bucket in her hand, and no memory of her name, her family or her past. Elsewhere, a girl grows ... More

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A collection of seven short stories by one of Japan's best known authors. Born in 1925 the author committed ritual suicide in 1970, and it is often ... More

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Tender or etched in acid, the eagerly anticipated second volume of stories by Bolano is hazily suggestive or chillingly definitive, a trove of ... More

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Lafcadio Hearn was a writer particularly gifted at translating a foreign aesthetic for a Western audience. Hearn's writing is always lyrical and ... More

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Considered to be among the world's greatest masters of fiction Turgenev's works explored the social issues that affected Russians during the ... More

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Referred to by Henry James as 'the first novelist of his time' Ivan Turgenev's works focus on class, love and suffering. "Knock, Knock, Knock and ... More

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A short collection showing Chekhov in an amusing, playful light, poking fun at his characters, with the moral detachment that also characterizes his ... More

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In Bulgakov's "Diaboliad", the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the First Central ... More

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The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of his gift,given the general availability ... More

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Tejasvi is a unique Indian writer, and a prominent and popular writer in the Kannada language. Greatly influenced by the Socialist movement, his ... More

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Pozdnyshev and his wife have a turbulent relationship. When her beauty blossoms after the birth of their children, men begin to flock around her, and ... More

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Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die. In other ... More

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These four stories illustrate the wide range of Zweig's subject matter dating from quite early in his career as a writer of fiction ("The Governess", ... More

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