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  • Notes from Childhood
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    Notes from childhood

    Norah Lange, Charlotte Whittle

    A series of luminous vignettes describe the childhood of Argentina’s rediscovered modernist writer. Self-contained, interconnected fragments begin with her family’s departure to Mendoza in 1910 and end with their return to Buenos Aires and the death of her father in 1915. Lange’s notes tell in...

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  • Permafrost
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    Permafrost

    Eva Baltasar, Julia Sanches

    Permafrost’s no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, ‘because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like’; as an au pair in Scotland, she develops a ...

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  • What You Could Have Won
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    What you could have won

    Rachel Genn

    “I wrote this book because I didn’t want Amy Winehouse to be dead.”

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  • Passages
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    Passages

    Ann Quin, Claire-Louise Bennett

    From mid-century working-class experimentalist Ann Quin, author of Berg, comes this poetic, erotic and psychologically charged mystery.

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  • People in the Room
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    People in the room

    Norah Lange, Charlotte Whittle

    An uncanny exploration of desire, domestic space, isolation and voyeurism by a writer Borges loved—only now in English translation.

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  • Brother in Ice
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    Brother in ice

    Alicia Kopf, Mara Faye Lethem

    Kopf—the young Catalan writer to watch—explores the unknown: both in the polar regions and in her family

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  • Phenotypes
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    Phenotypes

    Paulo Scott, Daniel Hahn

    A smart and stylish account of the bigotry lurking in our hearts and institutions alike.

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  • Pity the Beast
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    Pity the beast

    Robin McLean

    A mind-melting eco-feminist Western

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  • The Old King in his Exile
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    The old king in his exile

    Arno Geiger, Stefan Tobler

    International BestsellerShortlisted for the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and Schlegel-Tieck PrizeWhat makes us who we are? Arno Geiger’s father was never an easy man to know and when he developed Alzheimer’s, Arno realised he was not going to ask for help. “As my father can no longer cross the brid...

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  • Fit
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    Fit

    Sammy Wright

    A tender hearted debut about class and adolescence that follows a young girl’s abrupt move from a squalid foster home to a dazzling new life in London.

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  • Oldladyvoice
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    Oldladyvoice

    Elisa Victoria, Charlotte Whittle

    Elisa Victoria's first foray in the English language with a novel which uncovers nine-year-old Marina's internal struggles, during the long dry spell in 1993.

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  • Go Back at Once
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    Go back at once

    Robert Aickman

    Never before available in the United States, Robert Aickman’s bizarre and timeless masterpiece! A gloriously eccentric fantasy by “most profound writer of what we call horror stories” (Peter Straub)

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  • Under the Rainbow
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    Under the rainbow

    James Attlee

    Public symbolism and private reflection: writer and urban explorer Attlee reads the signs appearing in windows and interviews a wide spectrum of people

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  • Worlds from the Word's End
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    Worlds from the word's end

    Joanna Walsh

    An imagination bomb in the library of literature—Walsh’s playful and iconoclastic shorts bring a sharpness to the fiction of ideas.

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  • The Gurugu Pledge
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    The gurugu pledge

    Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Jethro Soutar

    Informed by first-hand accounts, this strangely funny yet chilling refugees' tale offers a distinctly African perspective on a global crisis.

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  • The Alphabet of Birds
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    The alphabet of birds

    SJ Naudé

    Stories of searching, desire and grief that radically rewrite the South African experience from the perspective of a diaspora generation

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  • The Unmapped Country
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    The unmapped country

    Ann Quin, Jennifer Hodgson

    The lost stories of a remarkable writer who distinctively embodies the radical spirit of the 1960s

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  • Malacqua
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    Malacqua

    Nicola Pugliese, Shaun Whiteside

    First published by Calvino—this long-suppressed novel of a city under deluge shows a darker Naples, on the verge of collapse

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  • Petite Fleur
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    Petite fleur

    Iosi Havilio, Lorna Scott Fox

    A jazzy tale of one man's descent into manic house-husbandry and murder

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  • Nowhere People
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    Nowhere people

    Paulo Scott, Daniel Hahn

    A prize-winning novel expresses the complexities of race, class and relationships and gives voice and visibility to an indigenous Brazilian

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  • Southeaster
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    Southeaster

    Haroldo Conti

    One of the great Argentinian writers now in English. Conti pits man against nature - and himself.

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  • Zbinden's Progress
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    Zbinden's progress

    Christoph Simon, Barbara Trapido, Donal McLaughlin

    “…little Odyssey, a little Ulysses; the story of one day’s journey, skillfully playing in tandem with another, life-long journey."

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  • Paradises
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    Paradises

    Iosi Havilio, Beth Fowler, Alex Clark

    A young mother learns to survive among the snakes, sleaze, and slums of Buenos Aires.

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  • Don't Try This at Home
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    Don't try this at home

    Angela Readman

    From fairy-tale gifts to gutter living, via your Mum becoming Elvis, Angela Readman’s award-winning stories display Angela Carteresque magic

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  • All Dogs Are Blue
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    All dogs are blue

    Rodrigo de Souza Leão, Zoë Perry, Stefan Tobler, Deborah Levy

    An original and comic voice from contemporary Brazil – Souza Leão orchestrates a carnival among the mad.

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  • Double Negative
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    Double negative

    Ivan Vladislavic, Teju Cole

    Race, politics, identity, photography: South African writer Ivan Vladislavic reminds us nothing is black and white.

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  • 101 Detectives
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    101 detectives

    Ivan Vladislavic

    Short stories with a side order of linguistic capers, from South Africa’s rising star, the award-winning Ivan Vladislavic

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  • An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell
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    An amorous discourse in the suburbs of hell

    Deborah Levy

    A love song between an angel and an accountant in the suburbs of London from Man Booker shortlisted Levy.

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  • Tregian's Ground
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    Tregian's ground

    Anne Cuneo

    Switzerland’s answer to Hilary Mantel—this novel does for Renaissance music what The Girl with a Pearl Earring did for Vermeer.

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  • The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón
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    The adventure of the busts of eva perón

    Carlos Gamerro, Ian Barnett

    A mash-up of revolutionary guerillas and business self help in this hilarious and clever collision of opposites in 1970s Argentina

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  • By Night the Mountain Burns
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    By night the mountain burns

    Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Jethro Soutar

    Exiled Equatorial Guinean writer shows the life of the native people of his west African island destroyed by distant rulers.

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  • Now and at the Hour of Our Death
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    Now and at the hour of our death

    Susana Moreira Marques, Julia Sanches

    A moving exploration of families facing death, in the voices of those affected in one rural corner of Portugal.

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  • The Restless Supermarket
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    The restless supermarket

    Ivan Vladislavic

    This novel takes the zero tolerance approach to punctuation of Eats, Shoots and Leaves to a hilarious yet poignant conclusion.

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  • Lunatics, Lovers and Poets
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    Lunatics, lovers and poets

    Salman Rushdie, Daniel Hahn, Margarita Valencia

    Twelve contemporary stories inspired by Shakespeare and Cervantes, to mark the 400th anniversaries of their deaths. Introduced by Salman Rushdie.

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  • The Islands
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    The islands

    Carlos Gamerro, Jimmy Burns, Ian Barnett

    The Falklands War novel—as if scripted by Roberto Bolaño and the South Park team.

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  • The Matiushin Case
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    The matiushin case

    Oleg Pavlov, Andrew Bromfield

    Twenty-first-century Crime and Punishment that speaks from the hell of Soviet Army life, by the best of Russia's contemporary writers.

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  • Sworn Virgin
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    Sworn virgin

    Elvira Dones, Clarissa Botsford

    Independence in the Albanian mountains means a vow to become a man—independence in America means reclaiming her womanhood.

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  • Esperanza Street
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    Esperanza street

    Niyati Keni

    The Wire in a Filipino port: a boy grows up as his community fights for its survival against criminal developers

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  • Open Door
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    Open door

    Iosi Havilio, Beth Fowler, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

    The word-of-mouth cult hit from Argentina's new literary star.

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  • Crossing the Sea
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    Crossing the sea

    Wolfgang Bauer, Stanislav Krupar

    The first book of reportage covering the flight of refugees from Syria to Europe via the Mediterranean. With colour photos.

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  • Requiem for a Soldier
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    Requiem for a soldier

    Oleg Pavlov

    From one of Russia’s greatest authors comes a ferocious and anarchically comic topical tale of life in the Russian army

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  • I'll Sell You a Dog
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    I'll sell you a dog

    Juan Pablo Villalobos, Rosalind Harvey

    Everything that can be done to fend off the boredom of retirement and old age, while still holding a beer.

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