Classics of Literature

Translated into English for the first time, The Archeologist is a landmark of Greek national literature, and an important document in the history of archeology and classicism. Published for the...

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Author: Orhan PamukFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 374g, 272 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2017"Many years have now gone by, and jealousy compels me to keep her name a...

Author: Lucas RijneveldFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 240g, 288 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2020*WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020*'One of the best debut novels I have ever...

Author: Willem Frederik HermansFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 96 pagesPublished: Pushkin Press, United Kingdom, 2018Towards the end of the Second World War, a weary partisan fighting with the Red Army...

Author: Raphaela EdelbauerFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 210mm, 336 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2021When her parents die in a car accident, highly talented Austrian physicist Ruth Schwarz is confronted with...

Author: Jun'ichiro TanizakiFormat: Paperback, 128 pagesPublished: Daunt Books, United Kingdom, 2017Shinako has been ousted from her marriage by her husband Shozo and his younger lover Fukuko. She's lost her home,...

Author: Karin SmirnoffFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 320 pagesPublished: Pushkin Press, United Kingdom, 2022Jana Kippo has returned to Smalanger to see her twin brother, Bror, still living in the small...

Author: Franz KafkaFormat: Hardback, 116mm x 168mm, 174g, 144 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers,...

Author: Michiko AoyamaFormat: Hardback, 134mm x 200mm, 320g, 256 pagesPublished: Transworld Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023Inspirational and heartwarming, this bestselling nominee of the Japan Booksellers' Prize is a celebration of...

Author: Yaniv IczkovitsFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 360g, 528 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2021A SUNDAY TIMES MUST READS PICK"Boundless imagination and a vibrant style . . . a heroine...

Author: Lorena Salazar MassoFormat: Hardback, 140mm x 218mm, 320g, 192 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023'Dazzling' Fernanda Melchor'A brilliant debut' Vogue'Bright and brimming with sisterhood. Overwhelmingly beautiful' El CulturalA...

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Author: Sandro Veronesi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'MAGNIFICENT' GUARDIAN 'A TOWERING ACHIEVEMENT' FINANCIAL TIMES 'INVENTIVE, BOLD, UNEXPECTED' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'The kind of novel summer is made for:...

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Author: Nicolas Mathieu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 THE FIRST NOVEL BY NICOLAS MATHIEU, WINNER OF THE 2018 PRIX GONCOURT Nicolas Mathieu's gripping first novel is the story of...

Author: Andrea Camilleri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Patience of the Spider is the eighth novel in Andrea Camilleri's wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series. Chief Inspector Montalbano is...

Author: Sofi Oksanen (DOB 7-1-1977)Format: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 258g, 368 pagesPublished: Atlantic Books, United Kingdom, 2022Helsinki, 2016. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog...

Author: David ColmerFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 400 pagesPublished: Pushkin Press, United Kingdom, 2021On the eve of the Second World War a public attorney, devastated because his Jewish lover has...

Author: Daniela KrienFormat: Hardback, 142mm x 220mm, 311g, 192 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2023In her perceptive and affecting new novel, Daniela Krien explores a marriage where everything hangs in...

Author: Margaret Mazzantini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 A mother's love knows no limits Libya, 2010. As Gaddafi clings desperately to power, and chaos and violence flood the streets...

Author: Margaret Mazzantini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 A mother's love knows no limits Libya, 2010. As Gaddafi clings desperately to power, and chaos and violence flood the streets...

Author: Yoko OgawaFormat: Paperback, 136mm x 216mm, 287g, 288 pagesPublished: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, 2024A story of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan, from the prizewinning author of The...

Author: Wang XiaoboFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 197mm, 202g, 272 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in...

Author: Marion Poschmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 When Gilbert Silvester, a journeyman lecturer on beard fashions in film, awakes one day from a dream that his wife has...

Author: Marie NDiaye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 *A GUARDIAN BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL OF 2023* *A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2023 FINALIST* *A WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS BEST TRANSLATED...

Author: Roland SchimmelpfennigFormat: Paperback, 194mm x 128mm, 140g, 192 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2023A thrilling, filmic immersion into Berlin's legendary club scene - a skillfully told novel about the...

Author: Erich Maria Remarque Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the most famous anti-war novel ever written, translated...

Author: Eduardo Mendoza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and...

Author: Andres Ibanez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 The epic literary adventure novel that has transfixed readers and critics alike in Spain En route from Los Angeles to Singapore,...

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Author: Javier Cercas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed. A sex tape from her student days - one she never knew existed. The...

Author: Eduardo Mendoza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and...

Author: Pajtim Statovci Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Devastating in the most beautiful ways.' - Torrey Peters'Superb . . . Statovci is a major talent.' - New York Times...

Author: Michel Bussi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Summer, 1989. Corsica. Fifteen-year-old Clotilde is the sole survivor when her family's car plunges off a narrow road into a ravine....

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Author: Delphine de Vigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 From the author of the Richard and Judy Book Club Pick No and Me. Adults are as lost as the...

Author: Roberto Saviano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 In Italy's impoverished south, choices are limited. Rules and traditions are more powerful than the lives of individuals, and young Italians...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies. 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYA stunning new translation of Homer's great...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A collection of Kafka's greatest stories, including his famous tale of alienation, now in Penguin Black Classics This collection...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'All right, I decided, if I couldn't win tonight, I'd win tomorrow. If I couldn't win tomorrow, I'd win...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In the penultimate novel in the series Maigret investigates a crime in Paris's seedy red light district The body...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A homeless loner haunted by his past is found murdered in this murky tale When a socially isolated vagrant...

Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities...

Author: Cesare Pavese Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Pavese's seductive masterpiece of memory and betrayal in the Italian countryside, in a vivid new translation by Tim Parks...