The popular Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland has been serving devoted regulars for decades, but behind the staff's professional masks simmer tensions, heartaches and grudges from decades of g
An atmospheric love story with a twist by the author of The Rabbit Back Literature Society.In a small hillside town, Olli Suominen - publisher and discontented husband - is constantly losing umbrellas
The love of drinking was well-developed in the nineteenth-century Englishman. With chapters on port, claret, sherry, champagne, Burgundy, Madeira, wine cellars, glasses and butlers, Through a Glass Li
A deeply engrossing, philosophical novel by a rising Estonian literary star.Wrapped into his long coat against the incessant rain and accompanied by a strange parrot, the young Dutch student Laurentiu
With its delicious food, warm jazz, and stunning views of Manhattan, Edward's home was a much-needed refuge for reporter Isabel Vincent. Her recently widowed ninety-something neighbour would prepare w
When I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free - There is something in it marvellously, uplifting and invigorating. Whole past epochs suddenly
A book passionately defending balloon flight for human beings, celebrating the 175th anniversary of The London Library.The first balloon flight with passengers (a sheep, a duck, and a rooster) took pl
Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement, of pro-active cultural exchange, humane decency and tolerance, all polar opposites of the Nationalist regimes he loathed,
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
A "hugely impressive first novel" (David Nicholls) about a virtuoso pianist plagued by unwanted music in his head - with echoes of Gatsby and Patricia HighsmithJan - a virtuoso pianist - is about to g
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
In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything—an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. Its centrepiece was the most expensi
Machi Tawara's first book of poems, Salad Annivsersary, combines the classical 'tanka' form with the subject of a modern love affair. It became a sensation, selling over 2 million copies - and th
In Georg Trakl's brief, tragic life he produced a body of work of intense visual power. Dense, imagistic and full of unnerving symbolism, his poems occupy a critical space in German Expressionism. Unt
A book of boxing by one of the nineteenth-century stars, celebrating the 175th anniversary of The London Library.Ned Donnelly, a former prize fighter turned boxing instructor and author (with a lot of
Bored with her mundane factory job, her nagging mother and her alcoholic father-in-law, Louise is captivated by a glamorous American couple who move to her industrial hometown in Northern France. The
The third hard-hitting Harry Kvist thriller - fresh out of prison, Harry's friend is dead, and the trail of guilt leads all the way to Hitler's Germany.Stockholm, 1936. Harry Kvist, a bisexual ex-boxe
The seven stories in A Nail, A Rose confirm Madeleine Bourdouxhe's status as an under-appreciated master of the form. Like her critically lauded novels Marie and La Femme de Gilles, these stories tunn
New translations of the best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writersKafka, whose name has generated an adjective, is one of the best loved writers of the tw
The fourth book in the bestselling Fortunes of France series, in a brand new look.An uneasy peace reigns in France, but behind the scenes Catholics, Protestants and the agents of foreign powers are st
1572: Returning from his studies in Montpellier, Pierre de Siorac is ambushed by a jealous Périgord nobleman. A duel ensues, and Pierre must subsequently travel to Paris, to seek his pardon fro
'This spell-binding collection will carry you off to shops near, far, lost and imagined' Mail on Sunday 'All these writers convey the magic of bookshops' Guardian A cabinet of curiosities, a time mach
The first bicycle was invented at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1890s that the craze really took off. This brought with it the fears, scaremongering, worries and unc
1572: Returning from his studies in Montpellier, Pierre de Siorac is ambushed by a jealous Périgord nobleman. A duel ensues, and Pierre must subsequently travel to Paris, to seek his pardon from the K
A very moving journey through grief: Pockety the tortoise has things to teach youIn this simple story about grief, and the continuation of life, a tortoise mourns her lost friend, learns to live alone
Stefan's Zweig's Letter from an Unknown Woman and other stories contains a new translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell of one of his most celebrated novellas, Letter from an Unknown Woman , the i
What does it mean to lose your roots within your culture, within your family? And what happens when you find them?Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, a
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
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
Only a couple of days before a state visit, Filiberto García - ex revolutionary and impeccably groomed gun for hire - is recruited by the Mexican police to look into rumours of a Chinese plot to assas
From the author of the hit The Evenings - two classic novellas that are considered among Gerard Reve's best workYoung Elmer longs to make friends and tries to control the world around him by forming s
'Sometimes, when you go astray and touch bottom, you finally come out on the other side' Lucie was brought up by bourgeois parents as a passionate young fascist. At the age of eighteen, the headstrong
A beautiful gift edition of this cult classic of supernatural fiction.The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful tha
A celebration of the greatest kind of shop in the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including Ali Smith, Michael Dirda, Elif Shafak and Daniel Kehlmann. A cabinet of curiosities, a time machi
The second hard-hitting Harry Kvist thriller - fresh out of prison, Harry is determined to avenge a friend's murder, and expose a police cover-up protecting people in high places...Harry has been in L
A humorous, heartwarming story follows the intellectually dim-witted 45-year-old Germain as he meets and slowly gets to know 85-year-old Margueritte, who sits in the park every day watching the pigeon
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
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 the seventeenth century, a giant strides the border of 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 ag
