A brilliantly original, deft and darkly funny debut short-story collection from the winner of the 2009 Caine Prize, sometimes referred to as the 'African Booker'.

Presents a story full of lust, madness, and ecstasy. This book features twelve distinctive characters that lived in the same region of central England over the span of six thousand years. It tells how their narratives are woven together in patterns of recurring events, strange traditions, and uncanny visions.

The works of Mervyn Peake have fascinated readers for several years. His Gormenghast sequence of novels are serialized to great acclaim by the BBC stands. This book traces the recurrent motifs through Peake's works (islands, animals, and loneliness) and explores Peake's play, "The Wit to Woo".

Commandant de Palma confronts a primitive curse wreaking revenge on underworld collectors of Oceanic art.

Alan Garner is an exceptional lecturer and essayist. Alan Garner's account of his mental illness will become a classic, and each strand of the book will be a source of fascination to anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of an Alan Garner story, as also to all who concern themselves with the craft of writing.

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, a devastating story of displacement, war, and the unlikely glimmer of hope in the dark

Let Henry S. Whitehead take you into the mysterious and macabre world of voodoo where beasts invade the mind of man and where lives of the living are racked by the spirits of the dead. With deceptive simplicity and chilling realism, Whitehead's Voodoo Tales are amongst the most frightening ever written.

Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. Voss sets out to cross the continent, and as hardships, mutiny and betrayal whittle away his power to endure and to lead, his attachment to Laura gradually increases.

A man and a woman, strangers to each other, residents of distant cities, have both called an adult party line. Finding each other's voice attractive, they soon switch to a private, "one-to-one" connection. Their seduction-through-conversation begins hesitantly and then becomes erotic.

Originally published: Budapest [Hungary]: Bolyai, 1941.

A novel about a failed dancer turned computer-graphics designer who's been around the block but these days doesn't leave her house. At heart, though, it's a meditation on how and whether you can ever know other people, what is evil, what is reality, what is humanity - and can you fake them? Or is there a litmus test for the real thing?

Published posthumously and intended mainly as a satire of its age, this imaginative and entertaining tale - here presented in a lively translation by Andrew Brown - is now considered one of the pioneering works of science fiction."

This brilliantly executed novel, which showcases all the techniques that have secured Robbe-Grillet's place in the canon of Western literature, leaves behind a disturbing sense of unrest.

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

A darkly funny, heart-wrenching satire that tears through the guts of the war news industry

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, this is a brilliantly innovative and highly entertaining novel from the celebrated pioneer of urban fantasy.

A funny and frank memoir about a long distance mother-daughter relationship.

A tale of a turbulent adolescent trying to break out of the suffocating, prison-like confinements of family, poverty and religion in a small town. This work tells the story of a winter in the childhood of Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in Colorado during the Great Depression.

A hilarious, minimalist story about patience and the ups and downs of waiting from author-illustrator, Alice Courtley.