Choosing as her subject four iconic homicides perpetrated by Chilean women over the 20th century, Alia Trabucco Zeran details not only the troubling tales of the murders themselves, but the story of how society, the media and men in power reacted to these killings, painting their perpetrators as femmes fatales or hysterics - evil or out of control.
Here in one beautiful collectorâ¿s edition are Herreraâ¿s 3 era-defining novels: Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Transmigration of Bodies, and Kingdom Cons
A major poet's fiction debut; a childhood not of screams but silence; a sensuous edge-of-danger tone, a la Deborah Levy
A gloriously eccentric fantasy by the "most profound writer of what we call horror stories." -Peter Straub
Turn that ugly flab into rock-hard abs with this one sardonic debut novel! (Doctors hate this.)
Nine-year old Marina may swear like a sailor and think like a novelist, but even the most exceptional child can get lost on the road to adulthood.
This cutting but compassionate debut novel charts a young girl's rise from life in a squalid rural foster home to a dazzling career in the big city.
Levrero's touching and funny magnum opus about domestic life, the writing process, love, the fear of death, pets, and a funereal pigeon
'It is always a worthwhile ambition to get through a project like this without being punched.'Writer and urban explorer Attlee reads the signs and messages appearing in British windows during the pandemic, and interviews the people who made them.
An empowering feminist collection of new stories, essays and poems inspired by spring 2020, raising funds for domestic violence charities
From the author of People in the Room, a literary memoir from Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer, a friend of Borges, Neruda and Lorca.
From mid-century working-class experimentalist Ann Quin, author of Berg, comes this poetic, erotic and psychologically charged mystery.
The #1 Catalan bestseller and winner of the Llibreter booksellers prize, Baltasar's novel is a forthright and wickedly funny novel of family relationships and one woman's search for freedom
'John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in Canada. He comes as close to the baffling, painful comedy of human experience as a writer can get.' Alice Munro
A travel writing classic, with a new preface by the author and an afterword by Geoff Dyer.
This enigmatic novel, from one of Britain's most important writers of the post-war avant-garde, explores suicide, marriage and class.
A woman keeps her daughters safe in the wake of war and political trauma in Central and Latin America.
Set in Spain and Sweden, twelve dark and funny short stories of characters who range from messy to outright deviant.
Mine fire industrial disaster nonfiction from the bestselling author of Signs Preceding the End of the World
Beauty and poverty; violence, addiction and brotherhood. Written with unstoppable flow, Wretchedness mixes high and low culture in an inimitable way.
The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers a hilarious and prize-winning tale of immigrants, students and gangsters in Barcelona
A masterful collection of essays from one of Australia's most searching and expert writers.
Never before available to readers in the UK, these brilliant and idiosyncratic short stories stand alongside the fictions of Borges, Beckett and Nabokov.
A short, suspenseful Norwegian winter's tale crafted in beautifully spare and precise prose. A harrowing, tragic story of a mother and her son.
Screwed-up England and its characters channelled in strange, twisted, funny, cartoon-like innovative fiction that grasps our times better than straight realism.
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