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A stunning deluxe edition of the stand-alone novella from Proust's masterpiece--an intoxicatingly witty story of infatuation and jealousy--delivers the most memorable reading experience A new translation commemorating a century since the monumental masterpiece was first published in English--and since Proust died--Swann in Love is a sublimely witty and poignant story of the illusions of love and desire. Full of the rich social satire and penetrating insight that distinguish Proust's style, it is the perfect introduction to one of the world's great novelists. When Charles Swann first lays eyes on Odette de Cr嶰y, her beauty leaves him indifferent. Their paths continue to cross in the drawing rooms and theatres of Parisian high society, and the seeds of desire in Swann begin to flourish. What follows is a journey through self-delusion, jealousy and delirious fantasy, which will take Swann far from the sedate comfort of his society life.

Stefan Zweig's classic biography of one of British history's most fascinating figures, rereleased in a new edition to tie in with launch of the major new Hollywood film, Mary Queen of Scots.From the m

The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general availability of doors. One day, however, his tyrannical b

Family brings the young woman back to the Faroe Islands - the windswept, rocky northern archipelago where she has neverlived but which she has always called home. There she finds her stories entwining

A farmer in India is watching the sun set over his village one quiet evening when a mysterious stranger, a giant man who seems more than human, appears on the horizon. He offers the farmer a black goa

Berlin, November 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silberman must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is Kristallnacht, and

Jana is returning to see her twin brother Bror, still living in the small family farmhouse in the rural north of Sweden. It's decrepit and crumbling, and Bror is determinedly drinking himself to an ea

The fight for the North Pole has begun "A claustrophobic thriller" Aftenposten A CRY FOR HELP Anna Aune is on a scientific expedition to the North Pole, when the pitch black of the polar night is lit

The members of a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly, unsolved multiple murder the year before. They're looking forward to investigating the crime, putting

The outdated noir narrative gets a radical feminist update in this fresh anthology featuring some of the world's most celebrated female authors. Here, noir queenpin Joyce Carol Oates has curated a wid

It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governments initiated the Transition.Now, 'special meat' - human meat - is legal. Marcos

'Wise, witty, razor-sharp' Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the Renaissance BeganInterested in Machiavelli?That may be a bad sign.We always turn to Machiavelli at crisis points in history

A witty, moving story of adolescent love and loss from the acclaimed, prize-winning author of Breasts and EggsA Japan Times Book of the decadeA young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich

In An Editor's Burial, celebrated director Wes Anderson gathers together the wonderful writing on the expatriate experience in Paris that inspired his latest film The French Dispatch, about an America

At the end of the eighteenth century, a giant strides the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains agains

Can a daughter ever really understand her mother?Chantal Thomas grew up in a seaside town on the Atlantic coast of France, inheriting from her mother an obsession with the sea, and for swimming. In th

A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'A masterful book, a gripping epic, necessary and gorgeously written' Stefan Hertmans, author of War and TurpentineIt is 1941, and Antwerp is

Géraldine Schwarz's family never discussed what happened in the war. Neither heroes nor villains, her German grandparents were merely the 'Mitlaüfer' - those who followed the current. They just wanted

Named after one of Iceland's most magnificent volcanoes, Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and

The delightful first title in a new collaboration with Channel 4's Walter Presents: a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of booksIn the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses

Joseph Roth's sensibility - both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane - produced some of the most distinctive fiction of the twentieth century. This collection of his most e

In this dazzling new collection, the acclaimed Danish writer Dorthe Nors creates a series of intimate, psychologically acute portraits of individuals in states of emotional crisis: a woman's attempts

In the West African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch.Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she nevertheless survives to discover new life wi

A poignant and sparkling novel that opens on a college campus and follows the friendship of four women across life-defining turning pointsAssigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quinc

Béla has never had much luck. His mother abandoned him at birth to go to work in Budapest, leaving him in the care of the dubious 'Aunt Rozika', a former prostitute who now runs a foster home with equ

'I started to leaf through the book and was soon engrossed... So vividly and wittily does the author reveal to us an utterly unfamiliar world' Teffi, author of Memories From Moscow to the Black SeaBan

After a lifetime of bad decisions PI Caleb Zelic is finally making good ones. He's in therapy, his business is recovering and his relationship with his estranged wife Kat is on the mend.But soon Caleb

Winter 1868. On the rugged mountains of the Veneto, the inhabitants have by now almost completely disappeared: most of them, oppressed by appalling poverty, have emigrated to America in search of a be

A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2019'Devastating... the brutal beauty of Crossing comes from its almost cellular understanding of belonging and exclusion, love and cruelty' Guardian'Crossing will devo

Marcos Tejo's job is to slaughter humans. Only no-one calls them that - not since the 'Transition'. When animals became infected with a virus lethal to humans, they had to be rounded up and killed. Fa

In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome murders. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstro

One of the great Central European war stories, on a par with the works of Jaroslav Hasek' Los Angeles Review of BooksAt the beginning of the twentieth century the villagers of the Carpathian mountains

When 20-year-old student J. S. Margot took a tutoring job in 1987, little did she know it would open up an entire world.In the family's Orthodox Jewish household she would encounter endless rules - 'n

Fresh, stylish new translations of Gogol's greatest short stories collected in a beautiful editionAdmired by writers from Nabokov to Bulgakov to George Saunders, Gogol is considered one of the more en

Japan's greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first timeIn the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a daughter of

'When we read Tolstoy, it feels easy. This is life itself' Howard Jacobson'No other writer wrote so often, or so imaginatively, about the actual moment of dying' Orlando FigesTolstoy's stories contain

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 h

Vivid, full of sardonic humour, moral nuance and personal drama, this book takes the reader into the heart of the revolutionary crowd, and shows how exhilarating and terrifying it is to be there' Lucy

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2019'One of the best and most important books written in German in our time' Karl Ove Knausgaard'A devastating sliver of a book' Maggie Nelson'Moving and beaut

A vibrant fable of marriage, caste and social convention from one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Indian fiction'Unexpected and moving' Amitava Kumar, author of Immigrant, Montana'A major