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In a small seaside town on the French coast lives Uncle. Prone to drinking, hoarding and gorging, not to mention the occasional excursion down into the plumbing, he shares his house with his niece and nephew, who look after him when they could be doing something - anything - else.

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An old man tells tales of the Thai jungle, and of the creature which has marked his life more deeply and terribly than any other, in a novel about storytelling, a changing world and the fearsome power of nature.

This is the story of an affair, or two. With a sharp wit, and a refreshing honesty, Le Blevennec charts the course of both two relationships, exploring their highs and lows over a decade, and gets to the heart of questions about love, family and identity. A book about getting lost in other people, and the lengths we go to to find ourselves again.

The Love of Singular Men is a coming-of-age love story set against the stifling backdrop of the Brazilian military dictatorship. In this short and elegant novel, Heringer combines an incisive exploration of Brazilian social and political issues with a moving account of first love, first grief and revenge, all written in fluid, innovative prose.

A young academic goes to ever greater lengths to keep a secret that sits at the heart of her work, and in doing so begins to lose her grip on her thesis, her life and then her sanity. What follows is a remarkable exploration of intellectual integrity and denial, and a gripping portrait of academic ambition.

A short, gripping existential parable, Venom introduces the UK reader to the world of Saneh Sangsuk, lush, raw, lyrical and vivid, this is storytelling at its finest.

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with liquid gold, to highlight and celebrate an object's past. In this powerful and personal novella, Senka Maric uses the concept of kintsugi to interrogate ideas of illness, survival and recovery.

Marcelino lives alone on his parents' farm, set deep in the beautiful but impoverished countryside of northern Spain.When his brother tricks him out of his house and land, a moment of anger sparks a chain of events that can't be reversed. Marcelino flees to the wild peaks of rural Asturias, becoming a cult hero as he evades authorities.

A woman approaching the 'invisible years' of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a chiropodist in the suburb of Marzahn, once the GDR's largest prefabricated housing estate, on the outskirts of Berlin.

Over the course of a single day - the day before today - the hero of this novel and his adored wife embark on a journey through the absurd and the surreal, encountering a choir of monkeys and a carnivorous ostrich, travelling from the studio of an artist obsessed with the colour green to the waistcoat pocket of a pot-bellied man.

On a cold 1918 night, Toussaint returns to his family in Paris. His wife and daughter have been awaiting his return, but the man who arrives is unrecognisable from the one who left four years ago. His unfamiliar presence becomes almost unbearable. With peace in sight, the family must try to stitch a new life from the tatters of what they had before

In these six short stories, Andrea Lundgren explores a liminal space where the town meets the wilderness and human consciousness meets something more animalistic. From foxes to blue whales to angels, the creatures that roam through these stories spark a desire for something more in their human counterparts: a longing for transformation.

Lela knows two things to be absolutely true:i. The history teacher has to die. ii. Across the pear field lies freedom.

A portrait of coercive control, from the Norwegian author of "The Looking-Glass Sisters".

Adelmo Farandola doesn't like people. In summer he roams the valleys, his only company a talkative, cantankerous old dog and a young mountain ranger who, Adelmo Farandola suspects, is spying on him.

A family is torn apart by their dream of a better future in the West. A true story narrated through the eyes of a child.

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An extraordinary piece of international survival literature, joining the likes of Primo Levi and Anne Frank. A beautiful memoir of resilience through Soviet repression and the Gulag that, like the author, beats the odds to survive.