This is a fictional collection of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905 when he was working at the patent office in Switzerland, while also building his theory of...

  Claudia Pineiro is one of Argentina’s foremost writers, generally acknowledged as the queen of crime fiction. What she is also known for is the piercing scrutiny of contemporary society...

Georges Perec (1936-1982) was a French writer known for his innovations in form. Things: A Story of the Sixties was titled Les Choses: une histoire des années soixante in the...

I intended to read Called by the Hills by Anuradha Roy soon after copies arrived at the bookshop last year. But then I learned that my sister had just finished...

A gentle and beautifully written debut novel about communication and human connection, and what it feels like for those with non-speaking autism to live in a world that, more often...

An introduction to Muriel Spark's entertaining and unpredictable novels. 

A new collection of essays from one of our all time favourite writers Anne Fadiman.

Antoine Laurain is one of my favourite writers. I pick up every one of his books expecting to love it, and he almost never disappoints. French Windows has all the elements that I associate with his writing. It's charming, quirky, and interesting. But this book has the added element of murder and mystery. You never quite know where it is going...

A quiet and introspective novella about work and what it means to us, the realities of aging, and loneliness. 

This is a novel about siblings, Peter, 32 and Ivan, a decade younger. When the story begins, the boys have just lost their father. Peter is in charge of the service, and he can’t help being embarrassed by his kid brother Ivan - chess whiz, socially awkward, in his ugly rented suit, looking utterly lost...

Natalia Ginzburg has a way of getting into the heart of everyday life, its small rewards and stubborn obstacles. Her prose is plain and spare. In both novellas, the narrator uses a flat register - either resigned to their circumstances or detached enough to tell the tale from a remove. Any emotion you feel is therefore your own as you read.

A professor of English literature, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst sets out in this books to share his love for reading and to gently nudge those of us who have either never experienced, or have forgotten, the act of slow and leisurely reading — the sort of reading that we probably did quite naturally when we were children...