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In this extraordinary collection of twenty tales, Richard Ford, a master short-story writer in his own right, has selected his personal favourites, including familiar masterpieces as well as several brilliant lesser-known tales.

Patricia Storace here explores modern-day Greece from its past to its difficult Balkan present.

Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has punched well above its weight. Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the 20th century--from Mary Lavin and Frank O'Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry.

Reissues of Baker's acclaimed novels, each with a stylish new cover design that provides a linking series look.

A stylish reissue of this bestselling contemporary classic, which won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize. Published to coincide with Penguin's publication of Funder's debut novel, "All That I Am", it tells the extraordinary true story of life in the former East Germany, and its inhabitants lives after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.

Subtitled, "The True Story Of One Man's Passion For All Things Proust". Foschini delightfully describes the story of his obsession with Marcel Proust and his decade-long quest to collect everything that once belonged to the writer, including his overcoat. No prior knowledge of Proust necessary! This was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, and an "Evening Standard" Book of the Year, and is now available in paperback.

An evocative account of a year spent speaking, thinking, and dreaming in a foreign language. Having survived a serious illness, Katherine Russell Rich spontaneously joins a special language school in Rajasthan offering 'total immersion'. What follows is a year of linguistic adventure and cultural surprises in which Rich gradually sheds her foreignness, to discover a new country and a new way of communicating. A clever, lucid and funny memoir a...

After the brutal, random murder of his cousin, Kevin Bloom was left with shock, grief, and anger - and one burning question: 'Why stay in South Africa?