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A nineteenth century vision of the city as rich with symbolism and oppressive with atmosphere, prefiguring aspects of both W.G. Sebald and James Joyce. 'A haunting, and a haunted work. Congratulations to Dedalus for reviving it' Nick Lezard, "The Guardian

Reissue of the decadent fin-de-siecle examination of bourgeois Parisian society, masochism and sexuality, with the action shifting to China in the second half. Initially published in 1898.

The first English translation of Huysmans' seminal art book, analysing work by a range of key figures including Paul Gauguin, Mary Cassatt and Edouard Manet.

Equal parts crime novel and state-of-the-nation exploration of modern Greece, George Zakiris takes on an offer of work which increasingly challenges him with choices between poverty and collusion in crime.

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The first novel from Mauritania to be translated into English, in which Rayhana leaves her Bedouin tribe with metal-mining outsiders, with complications ensuing.

A broad selection of Estonian women's writing on a timeline of influence and context spanning from the late-nineteenth century to the present. Elisabeth Aspe, Betti Alver and Maarja Kangro all feature.

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Toomas Nipernaadi is one of the more peculiar works in the Estonian literary canon, and its eponymous male protagonist is without doubt one of the most exciting characters in the language. First of all he seems merely to be a man who travels from place to place charming people and telling stories, only to forget it all in the blink of an eye. But perhaps, more than anybody, it is precisely he who remembers. Perhaps all the hearts he touches wi...

Take Six is a celebration of six remarkable Portuguese women writers: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Maria Judite de Carvalho, Helia Correia, Teolinda Gersão and Lídia Jorge. They are all past mistresses of the short story form, and their subject matter ranges from finding one's inner fox to a failed suicide attempt to a grandmother and grandson battling the wind on a beach. Stories and styles are all very different, bu...