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Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation in A MAN'S PLACE reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life.

A paean to the transformative powers of language-learning from the winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize.

A crystalline and poignant epistolary novel from the author of ASH BEFORE OAK.

An essay for the stage from 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate Elfriede Jelinek focusing on the ills of capitalism.

With THE APPOINTMENT, her audacious debut novel, Katharina Volckmer challenges our notions of what is fluid and what is fixed and injects a dose of Bernhardian snark into contemporary British fiction.

An unnamed narrator travels to a village southeast of Rome, embarking on walks and outings while going over the sublime and the banal with equal rigour, looking back all the while at a communist 1970s past. Translated from German by Caroline Schmidt.

Drawing from personal experience, Despentes shatters received ideas about rape and prostitution, and explodes common attitudes about sex and gender. KING KONG THEORY is a manifesto for a new punk feminism, reissued here in a brilliant new translation by Frank Wynne.

A collection of essays which begin with a daily encounter with a photo, memory or book, and links it to other subjects. Draws in the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf and many others.

Written in three parts The Things We've Seen is a dazzling and anarchic exploration of social relations.

In A GIRL'S STORY, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, her first away from home, and recounts the first night she spent with a man.

An unapologetic embrace of the nightlife, this fragmentary novel attempts to capture the feel of debauchery from within.

BOX HILL is a sizzling, sometimes shocking, and strangely tragic love story between two men, set in the gay bikercommunity of the late 1970s.

SECOND-HAND TIME is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In this book she creates a singular, polyphonic literary form by bringing together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a brilliant, poignant and unique portrait of post-Soviet society.

In writing that is inventive, bold, and generous, Maria Tumarkin's AXIOMATIC is a brilliantly inventive exploration of how the past shaped the present blending narrative, reportage and essay.

Booker International-longlisted author Clemens Meyer returns with DARK SATELLITES, a collection of short stories about marginal characters in contemporary Germany.

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An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother, and of both women's strength and resiliency.

A powerful, unsettling portrait of ordinary family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Alvarez's debut novel THE FALLEN is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall.

A critical, satirical take on Philippine-American history, a powerful contribution to the postcolonial canon, and a fearless exploration of the limits of metafiction, INSURRECTO is a novel about women - artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters - finding their way to their own truths and histories.