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Originally published in 1948, Love Among the Ruins is a clever and quintessentially British classic in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series. Now available as a Virago Modern Classic.

A lyrical and modern exploration of loneliness and failure-as well as a love letter to Homer and James Joyce-by one of our most celebrated writers.

An exploration into the recent civil conflicts of Algeria and Bosnia-Herzegovina through Salim, a journalist, and Ivana, a young Bosnian woman, both having fled the destruction, hatred and atrocities of their countries to try to build a new life in Slovenia. A fictional memorial to the thousands of dead and 'disappeared', and to the survivors.

A barbed, funny, painfully well observed study of contemporary relationships, centring on the love triangle between a wife, her husband, and his mobile phone.

A dazzling, panoramic epic of love and survival set in late 19th century Paris in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Susanna Clarke from an award-winning author.

Farah moves into Liberty House at the tender age of thirteen, with her family. The commune's spiritual leader, Arcady, preaches equality, non-violence, anti-speciesism, free love and uninhibited desire for all, regardless of gender, age, looks or ability. In this utopian 'quiet zone,' far from access ...

Stories and characters flow from these molten moments in a series of fictions that touch on ecstasy, excess and the elemental.

Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. This phenomenal Flemish international bestseller tells of a young woman's return to the small town where she suffered as a child and the payback she demands there.

A brooding meditation on violence by a classic post-war Dutch writer who has drawn comparisons to Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.

A raw and striking debut novel about redemption and recovery

'Suberb . . . vivid' TELEGRAPH

'Michael Deagler is the real deal . . . a truly intelligent work from a clearly intelligent writer' PERCIVAL EVERETT

'Illuminating and moving' AIMEE BENDER

Dennis Monk is about to spend his first summer sober. ...

Uncumber lives in a dystopian world where all humanity is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. Michael Frayn is the award-winning author of Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award, and Skios, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

BY THE AUTHOR OF STONER

Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.

In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado ...

An epic story of a young girl on a life-changing odyssey across nineteenth-century Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine

A love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees

Fake news in Weimar Berlin: a blistering classic satire of journalism, lies and celebrity, in English for the first time.

A provocative collection of short stories charting the growth of a generation from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of responsibility and fidelity of the 1990s.

At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind.

Instead, she starts gaining things, surprising ...

Heaven, reported St John in Revelation, was a cubical city 12,000 furlongs high made of 'pure gold, like unto clear glass'. His bestselling novels include Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award and his latest novel Skios, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

In this collection of five stories by a great short story writer, prototypes from the ancient world cast a shadow over our age. Each story poses the same questions: what do people really believe in, where can they put their trust, and why do they continue to hope?

Catherine and Heathcliff's, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father, passionate but doomed love forms the core of this extraordinary tale. Catherine's brother Hindley's hatred and humiliation of Heathcliff leads to tragedy when Catherine marries another and Heathcliff returns newly wealthy to enact his revenge on all who wronged him.