A subtly lyrical novel, written with Peter Benson's trademark wit and understatement, The Other Occupant explores the moving evolution of an unlikely relationship, against a beautiful countryside backdrop.

A compelling coming-of-age tale, in which Benson employs surfing as a metaphor, adding graceful comic details and a series of charming secondary characters, Riptide is an intense, even transcendent examination of a young man's struggle to establish his identity while facing the loss of both parents.

A humorous novel about a private eye living an uneventful life in Brighton until normality gives way to a kind of mad logic.

A novel about dreams fulfilled, lives affirmed and a late, unexpected love.

Peter Benson's new novel is a slick gothic tale in the English tradition, a murder mystery, a reflection on the works of the masters of the French Enlightenment and a tour of Edwardian England. More than this, it is a work of atmosphere and unease which creates a world of inhuman anxiety and suspense.

The sensational erotic memoir that shocked the world, now a Serpent's Tail Classic.

The history of 'Credit Gone Away', a squalid Congolese bar, is related by one of its most loyal customers, Broken Glass, who has been commissioned by its owner to set down an account of the characters who frequent it. Broken Glass himself is a disgraced alcoholic school teacher with a love of French language and literature.

A short, gripping suspense novel in which an elderly aristocrat becomes obsessed with a young girl.

A story of family, belonging and love from the Costa-winning author of Tiny Sunbirds Far Away.

As usual, all is abnormal in Dr Siri Paiboun's morgue in downtown Vientiane. Siri and his team are investigating the case three women skewered by a sword through their hearts. A culprit has been apprehended, tried and sentenced to death in a week's time. But Siri isn't sure they have the right man.

Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Utterly beguiling' Joanna Trollope

A wonderful gift book for word freaks, scrabble nuts, and crossword fans everywhere...

'Much of The Bird Room's appeal is down to Killen's taut, sharp prose style - not flashy but alternately laconic, melancholy and dryly witty - that gives an edgy, sometimes creepy and very contemporary sense of beauty to the everyday and the banal.' Metro

A classic medieval mystery from the Albanian master

'A tour de force. Hyland illuminates this man's damaged soul with such a steely, brilliant clarity that your heart breaks for him.' Helen Garner

Fantastic, fantastical stories from the favourite author of a host of other authors

New edition of the first novel by the legendary poet, musician and Godfather of Rap

Forbidden love in the time of war, this is essential reading for fans of emotional historical romance, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Maureen Lee.

In the fifth instalment of the delightful Dr Siri series, Laos' reluctant chief coroner is kidnapped, while his colleagues contend with exploding corpses back at the morgue.

Atlantic Books is proud to be publishing Richard Powers' backlist titles, re-jacketed in paperback. Galatea 2.2 is a dazzling novel of ideas, that interrogates why we make the choices we do, and what constitutes the human soul.

Set in Johannesburg during a new age of apartheid and intolerance, Heaven Forbid is a wise and moving tale of innocence blighted and paradise lost; an unforgettable novel of childhood, family and the impact of a crucial moment in history on that private world.

Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirling thoughts - yet he still sees himself as a survivor, raging against private disasters and the myriad catastrophes of the modern age.

Follows two young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.