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An over-the-top bittersweet comedy that introduces us to one of the most unlikely anti-heroes of modern times, Wallace, destined to leave his mark both on the legal establishment and his readers. Wallace is full of passion. He is angry at the changing world around him. He is angry at the Bar, with its charter marks and political correctness, the Crown Prosecution Service for its gross incompetence and at the people running his chambers for the...

Investigates the links between suicide and the written word, by a founder member of Blondie.

Against Nature is Huysmans's great fin-de-sicle novel anticipating many strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarm and Poe. A novel like no other, it features a hero, des Esseintes, a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only by two silent servants, he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems...

New edition of the German classic, translated by Mike Mitchell.

Satirical works aimed at the hypocrisies of the age.

Collection of bizarre and grotesque stories.

First English translation of one of the masterpieces of Danish literature, which won the 1964 Nordic Prize. *Also appeared in 2010*

New translation by Brendan King.

Major new novel from the French author described by "Le Monde" as 'The Vincent van Gogh of our age', but in French.

We are creatures of the night and we use each other's ignorance and muddy each other's waters, assumptions, guesses, certainties are all one to us, because everything is in a state of flux, and the pieces are continually being moved. Add to this the differences in intelligence, nerve, greed and willingness to pay the price, and you're dealing with the impossible. Gabriel has worked for Soviet intelligence, but after the fall of the Soviet Unio...

Short stories on the subjects of identity, madness and solitude.

Anthology of short stories 1890 - 2000, including work by Kafka, Meyrink and, in the modern era, Artmann. "A superb collection" "Time Out".

This is the second of three semi-autobiographical novels written by Huysmans at the end of the 19th century, charting the progress of Durtal, a tormented and solitary figure, as he moves from a life of debauched decadence to a peaceful communion with God. The catalyst for Durtal's tortured journey is his obsession with art, architecture and music, all of which are to be found in the great French Gothic churches in which he whiles away his hour...

The third part in a Byzantine trilogy, featuring an interesting but little-known period of history. A young boy is captured by Barbarians, castrated, raised with girls and bought by a noted scholar because of his feigned knowledge of a barbarian language. Zeno, the castrati, develops a natural intelligence, but is drawn into a labyrinth of sex, heresy, murder and plotting. An army general, a bisexual boy emperor, a peasant usurper and a half-V...

A baroque extravaganza which will delight fans of Madsen's "Memoirs Of A Gnostic Dwarf".

This volume collects the poetry and prose that served as the model and inspiration for so much of fin-de-siecle English and French writing, providing a vivid picture of sexual excess and debauchery in a cruel and violent society which has never ceased to fascinate the library and scholarly imagination of succeeding generations. The editor, novelist Geoffrey Farrington, provides a general introduction to the literary and political milieux of im...

A finely crafted first novel that, in the form of a young woman's childhood recollections of her mother, creates a portrait of the last days of Franco's Spain. Young Maria de los Milagros, known to one and all as Milagrosa, has no one to blame but herself if she's not a child prodigy: after all, her mother Carmen began taking her to school at the age of two. That, admittedly, was more for her mother's benefit than hers-Carmen was the village s...

Harris's debut, a highly mobile but underdeveloped tale from the seventh century, features a homosexual monk from Tarsus who spends much of his life mulling over the nature of lust and the fine points of theology, and who later becomes the Archbishop of Canterbury. When his parents are killed as heretics, Theodore is turned over to a monastery. At 16, however, he's sent packing and after spending several years under the tutelage of a hermit ph...

Anthology of short stories in the "European Fantasy Literature" series.

Another triumph for Yuri Buida, this is the second of his books to be translated into English, and like his first - The Zero Train - it was shortlisted for the Russian equivalent of the Booker Prize. It has also won a prestigious Apollon Grigoriev award. Buida was born in 1954 in the Kaliningrad Region. This area was formerly East Prussia and had been resettled with Soviet citizens a few years before Buida's birth. The result was an alien plac...