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NGO worker Gwen refuses to leave Afghanistan as the 1990s takeover by the Taliban sets in. Her ideas for protecting and empowering the community she is working with take an opportunistic, opium-related turn. Fifteen years later Gwen is helping migrants in the UK, set to clash with her daughter as her past catches up with her.

A flawed yet honourable policeman in Troubles-era Belfast suspects a series of deaths are not sexual or sectarian, but instead motivated by old allegiances. His superiors suggest that he may have lost his perspective. Gray's second Belfast novel, following "The Political Map Of The Heart".

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A wounded soldier without identification is found by the crew of a German hospital ship in 1943. The soldier regains consciousness but can no longer remember language. The ship's doctor, hailing from Finland, teaches the man Finnish, with a search for identity set to ensue. The winner of three Italian literary prizes.

The imagined autobiography of a movie star who appeared in German films across the Weimar and Nazi eras, involved in the dark personal dynamics between the Nazi party elite. From the author of "The Arabian Nightmare".

Adolescence sets in for Kate with an unstoppable hunger for meat. Differing hungers for religion and for sex also come and go, presided over by an ongoing need for meat. 'Kinky, grotesque and very funny, this is not for the faint of heart' "Publisher's Weekly

A classic Portuguese novel translated here into English by Margaret Jull Costa. Follows the fortunes of widower Richard Whitestone who regularly re-reads "Tristram Shandy", his wise daughter and romantic son.

A novel about obsessive love initially published in France in 1898. Has inspired five film adaptations, including Josef von Sternberg's in 1935 and Luis Bunuel's in 1977.

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A selection of children's stories loved by generations of Portuguese children, with the recurring themes loyalty and friendship.

Elias's father used to read novels at work to transport himself from his boring duties as a book-keeper until he literally lost himself in a book, or so Elias was told. Elias goes off in search of the father he never knew, across the action-packed plots of many recognisable classics. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

A story from one of Germany's most popular children's authors. Carlo is determined to see his father, who lives back in Palermo, and therefore sets out without any money to make his way there.

A funny and touching exploration of freedom, friendship and finding yourself. Mo acknowledges her 'inner voice' and sets to work on her memoirs, not letting her bovine nature stop her. Set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.

Rural ideals clash with big city ambition in this novel of female empowerment, which is also the first novel by a female author to be published in Cape Verde. Salustio has been awarded the PEN Galicia for lifetime achievement.

Ohl's homage to nineteenth century English fiction features a Dickensian cast of characters (including Dickens himself), in its depiction of the fallout from a mysterious discovery.