Bold and immersive, The Variations is a novel of startling originality about music and the difficulty - or impossibility - of living with the past.

In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, her first away from home, and recounts the first night she spent with a man.

Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation in A Man's Place reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life.

Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation in A Man's Place reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life.

Written in melodious and hypnotic 'slow prose', A New Name: Septology VI-VII is a transcendent exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosse, and a radically other reading experience - incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.

Published in book form for the first time, Jon Fosse's Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm in December 2023, translated by Damion Searls.

Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces, a profoundly moving recounting of her mother's death.

A haunting exploration of love and loss by the Beckett of the twenty-first century (Le Monde).