'Superb. This has all the elements that made the first three Picketts so pleasurable' - Booklist

On the centenary of Malamud's birth, Atlantic Books is proud to republish what is considered to be the haunting masterpiece of one of the giants of post-war American fiction

On the centenary of Malamud's birth, Atlantic Books is proud to republish this searing novel of temptation and transgression by one of the giants of post-war American fiction

A powerful, sparsely written novel that explores, in brutal detail and measured prose, the life of a man who killed for a living.

A gorgeous, strange, dark-edged novel that has garlanded critical acclaim throughout Europe and won the prestigious Nordic Council's Literature Prize.

From one of South Africa's finest novelists comes a glittering and vivid fable of politics and power

From one of South Africa's finest novelists comes a glittering and vivid fable of politics and power

1,000 PAGES OF LOCKED ROOM MYSTERIES! Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett, P. G. Wodehouse, Ellery Queen and even Stephen King rub shoulders with new and forgotten masterpieces in this definitive collection of utterly impossible crimes.

From the Man Booker-longlisted author of A Little Life comes 'a novel you will finish and immediately want to read again' (Sarah Waters).

A brilliant and strikingly original debut novel, The Last King of Lydia imagines the bloody rise and fall of Croesus, 'the richest man on earth', and powerfully shows how happiness, even for those who have everything, is so often elusive.

The king is dead. Long live the king. When power falls on the shoulders of a young man, only his slave can teach him how to be great. But power corrupts, and absolute power... A new novel of the ancient world - in all its splendour and barbarity - from a hotly talented, prize-nominated rising star.

The fifth instalment of Robert Fabbri's bestselling Vespasian series. Vespasian fights a battle on two fronts - ancient evil in Britannia and political intrigue in the heart of Imperial Rome.

'Beautiful...richly melancholy like those hot summer days when it is so full of that calm before the Autumn, it quite ravished me. When I read it, the tears stream down my face.' STEVIE SMITH

First published in 1892, this perfect novel portrays with chilling power the powerlessness of women within Victorian marriage.

* An early novel by one of England's most important contemporary novelists.

The author describes the garden she created in her Pomeranian wilderness and - somewhat less affectionately - the Man of Wrath, her upright Teutonic husband.

At one level an escapist fantasy, at another a parable about the liberation of the spirit, this delicious confection will work its magic on all.' 'The Daily Telegraph

* Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.

"Our Joy" walks down Fulham Broadway carrying week-old baby Jonny. Twenty-two, with bleached hair and shoes too high, she dreams about "oh, loads of things - to have something, to be something". Then her husband Tom is sent to prison for thieving, leaving Joy and Jonny to move in with Auntie Emm.

Set against the racial turbulence of the Civil Rights Era, this book offers the work of fiction to explore the life of Martin Luther King Jr - political visionary, human rights activist, preacher, scholar and martyr.

This diverse collection is a delightful and entertaining windfall from one of Ireland's most colourful writers. An essential complement to Behan's master works.

Set in the Stone Age village of Skara Brae on Orkney. A strange boy arrives in the village with a sharp axe of a type never seen before. Conflict soon arises, and a deadly storm threatens the village.

The Literary Heritage of the Arabs samples some of the finest literature produced by Arab writers from pre-Islamic times to the Abbasid Dynasty. The selection of poetry and prose spans many genres and styles, from the tragic to the comic, the wistful to the mystical, and the courtly to the lowly.