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A Cat, A Man, And Two Women
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,...
An Alphabet for Gourmets
Admired by W. H. Auden as one of the greatest American writers, M. F. K Fisher never focuses on just the food set before her. Instead, with unfailingly elegant prose,...
Bear
Lou is a shy and diligent librarian at the local Heritage Institute. She works monotonous and dusty hours long into the night but she has found nothing - and no...
The City and The House
Giuseppe is leaving his flat in the city of Rome, where he has lived for more than twenty years, to go and live with his brother in America. He must...
The Gastronomical Me
Beginning with her first food memory - the greyish-pink fuzz of her grandmother's strawberry jam - M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a voyage of gastronomical discovery, from her childhood in...
All Our Yesterdays
Anna, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in a small town in northern Italy, after a brief romance finds herself pregnant. To save her reputation, she marries an eccentric older family friend and...
The Odd Woman and the City
Every night when I turn the lights out in my sixteenth-floor living room before I go to bed, I experience a shock of pleasure as I see the banks of...
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
At the beginning of June the river floods, ducks swim through the drawing-room windows and Ebin Willoweed rows his daughters round the submerged garden. But the flood is only the...
A Spring of Love
Esther Williams is thirty and single. She lives with her grandmother in a small house and her life is one of routine and order; she takes a seaside holiday each...
Rhine Journey
It is the summer of 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is on holiday in Germany with her brother and his wife. On the surface, Charlotte is an unmarried aunt with a...
That's All I Know
Nineteen-year-old Lea is from a village that is out of time, out of jobs and out of hope. She and her friends, however, are vivid and electric with life. They...
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
Green shoots, green leaves, California green vesicles be-neath the California green-brown mud. A hormonal transition is a new start, but it is not a new start like a shoot emerges...
The Little Virtues
'As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones...' So begins the titular essay in Natalia...
The Road to the City
Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in...
Voices in the Evening
In a hushed, Italian town after the Second World War Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is of constant concern...
Dog Hearted: Essays on Our Fierce and Familiar Companions
Author: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 200 From Carl Phillips asking how wildness is tamed, to Esm Weijun Wang finding moments of stillness in the simple act...
Misinterpretation
Author: Ledia Xhoga Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 328 There was a unicycle hanging from a metal rack, its lemon-coloured wheel hovering above my head. The last thing I remembered...
On the Clock
In one strand, a young family bumps and scrapes through life. The hapless father balances demanding factory shiftwork, while the mother constantly prioritises the needs of others over her own....
Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk
She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy's to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. Now it's the last...
Journeys and Flowers
A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in...
hungry for what: stories
A game between a woman's father and husband simmers and boils into scalding danger; a daughter creates an elaborate feast for her grieving mother; a solar eclipse burns emotions and...
Take What You Need
Take What You Need traces the parallel lives of Jean and her beloved but estranged stepdaughter, Leah, who's sought a clean break from her rural childhood. In Leah's urban life...
Real Life
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside...
Headshot
Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of...
Sagittarius
'At long last she was playing the role she had alwaysdreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxious solicitude, preparing to confide her daughter into the handsof a young...
Valentino
'So there is no one to whom I can speak the words thatmost need to be spoken, about the events which mostclosely concern our family and what has happened tous;...
The Dry Heart
The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: 'I shot him between the eyes.' As the tale - a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and...
The Edges
A man returns to his hometown to clear out the flat of his recently deceased mother. While there, he cannot resist visiting his former lover. As the storm rages in...
The Barefoot Woman
Author: Scholastique Mukasonga Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 153 From the author of the critically acclaimed novel Our Lady of the Nile, ahaunting, delicately wrought work of non-fiction, memorialising a...
A Sunday in Ville-d'Avray
It's a Sunday in early September and a woman is going to visit her sister in the suburbs outside Paris. She remembers their childhood, when they had 'tender hearts and...
Yr Dead
Author: Sam Sax Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 I can't make heads or tails of it, the goat on the corner of Union and Metropolitan. It is 2016 and...
Who's There: Travels in Place and Time
I have invented nothing, but memory weaves its own histories. These are travel stories, ranging in time and place. Some are memories of a re-imagined past, others more personal. Simon...
Things I Didn't Throw Out
Lamps, penknives, paperbacks, mechanical pencils, inflatable headrests. Marcin Wicha's mother Joanna was a collector of everyday objects. She found intrinsic - and often idiosyncratic - value in each item. When...
The Edges
A man returns to his hometown to clear out the flat of his recently deceased mother. While there, he cannot resist visiting his former lover. As the storm rages in...
Green Water, Green Sky
With a foreword by Brandon Taylor. An elegant, melancholic novella about memory, family and the meaning of home. This is the tale of the fractured family life of Bonnie McCarthy,...
Lord Jim at Home
When Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as 'squalid and startling', 'nastily horrific', and a 'monstrous parody' of upper- middle class English life. It...
A Wreath for the Enemy
Presently, on the sea floor, I began to find lost things; toraise the moods that were mine when I was fourteenyears old, sitting in this garden, writing my Anthology ofHates....
Rattlebone
'If you've ever tasted the after-rain clay dirt on a Kansassummer afternoon, or if you've ever secretly wanted to,you may understand why I was often tempted to eat astick of...
Happiness, As Such
'Dear Michele, she wrote, I'm writing principally to tell you that your father is sick. Go visit him. He says he hasn t seen you for days.' Michele is the...