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Arthur Morgan travels to New York in the 1950s. He encounters gilded youth, the rich and eccentric, and is invited to the White House. He succeeds in meeting the great and the good. But the repercussi

'Haunting. Geppetto's voice, full of wistful overemphases and bewildered revelation, is absorbing as he takes in the oddity of his situation. And the book, sentence by sentence, offers much in which to luxuriate.' - Sunday Times 'Profound and delightful.It is a strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions; parenting and art-making' - Max Porter 'Strange, moving and musical, it's a delight' - A. L. Kennedy 'A re-imagining of Pinocchio, told from the viewpoint of the beast-entrapped Geppetto, it surprise and delights, and saddens and gladdens, from start to finish.' - Jane Graham I am writing this account, in another man's book, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fish.I have been eaten. I have been eaten, yet I am living still. 'Art objects live in the belly of this marvellous novel, images swallowed by text, sustained by a sublime and loving imagination.Like all Edward Carey's work The Swallowed Man is profound and delightful. It is a strange and tender parable of two madde

Two tales of ill-advised marriage and its tragic consequences from a pioneering voice in French feminist literature.Much acclaimed amongst her contemporaries and yet all but forgotten today, Marie-Lou

'Haunting. Geppetto's voice, full of wistful overemphases and bewildered revelation, is absorbing as he takes in the oddity of his situation. And the book, sentence by sentence, offers much in which to luxuriate.' - Sunday Times 'Profound and delightful.It is a strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions; parenting and art-making' - Max Porter 'Strange, moving and musical, it's a delight' - A. L. Kennedy 'A re-imagining of Pinocchio, told from the viewpoint of the beast-entrapped Geppetto, it surprise and delights, and saddens and gladdens, from start to finish.' - Jane Graham I am writing this account, in another man's book, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fish.I have been eaten. I have been eaten, yet I am living still. 'Art objects live in the belly of this marvellous novel, images swallowed by text, sustained by a sublime and loving imagination.Like all Edward Carey's work The Swallowed Man is profound and delightful. It is a strange and tender parable of two madde

After losing his wife and suffering a stroke, Édouard has retired to the mountains with his nurse. One day a man arrives claiming to be his long-lost son. This seems to bring about a softening of Édou

?An enthralling mystery about chasing the unknown, the nostalgia for what could have been, and most importantly, the persistence of curiosity.” ?San Francisco Book Review on The Red NotebookAvid antiq

A touching fictionalized memoir and masterly evocation of period from one of the towering French literary figures of the past century.A patchwork of events narrated from young Edouard's perspective gi

Praise for The Red Notebook:"An endearing love story written in beautifully poetic prose. It is an enthralling mystery about chasing the unknown, the nostalgia for what could have been, and most

A crime author writing the story of forty-something Louis, who decides to do his cash-strapped friends a favour by hastening their parents’ demise, finds reality and fiction overlapping during his sta

"A writer who can understand man wherever he is"The New York Times"Khadra's prose is gentle and precise"The New YorkerAs a child living in a ghetto, Turambo dreamt of a better futu

A prize-winning author's magical realist fable about greed and corruption in Venezuela, Black Sugar gives a fascinating view of the country's social and economic development throughout the twentieth c