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Published in association with The London Library.

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I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.'Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit.This is the story of ten evenings in Frits's life at the end of D...

A classic novel from 1945, about one man's final, fatal, heroic act of resistance in Nazi France. From a Czech author who was much admired by Graham Greene and Milan Kundera.

Translated by Ignat Avsey. A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel and, before he reaches it, has been murdered. And though Sponer has so far committed no crime, he is drawn into the late Jack Morimer's life, and might not be able to escape its tangles and intrigues before it is too late.

A translation of Zweig's highly personal last work, written during WWII, this is a biography of his hero, Michel de Montaigne, and a passionate argument for humanity in times of barbarity.

Every Saturday evening, Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille. But he has another lover, Lucienne, and together they have devised a murderous plan. Drugging Mireille the pair drown her in a bathtub, but in the morning, before the 'accidental' death can be discovered, the corpse is gone and so begins the unravelling of Ferdinand's plot and his sanity.

In Simon Liberati's debut, Anthology of Apparitions (Anthologie des apparitions), a man tries to unravel the mystery of his sister's disappearance. In the process, he has to confront the truth of his youth spent partying with the Wild Young Things of 1970s Paris and the Cote d'Azur.

A side-splittingly funny coming-of-age novel set in the Japan of the sixties, Ryu Murakami's novel is an unusually funny and autobiographical book from an author known for his darkly violent and cynical side. Being young in the 1960s is the same in Japan as everywhere. This is a personal but profound insight into a much wider upheaval in society.

The first novel of acclaimed American novelist and computer programmer Ellen Ullman, The Bug is both a novel of ideas and a suspense story. 'Thrilling and intellectually fearless ... If more contemporary novels delivered news this relevant and wise they'd have to stop declaring the death of the novel' The New York Times

A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (Utas es Holdvilag) is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire.

The first hardback edition of the only novel written by one of the most popular authors of the 20th century, translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell. Stefan Zweig's novel is a devastating depiction of the torment of the betrayal of both honour and love, realised against the backdrop of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The new paperback edition of a rarity: a brilliant novel of ideas that is also irresistible and very, very racy. An engrossing, hugely satisfying and entertaining read, by a young Argentinian superstar. For lovers of historical novels, and of the modernist giants Mann and Musil.

Stories and poems from the Russian Revolution. An exciting new collection of responses to the Revolution, by some of Russia's greatest writers of the twentieth century.

Eline attempts to break free from the constraints of 19th century conventions in The Hague.

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Features four stories which illustrate the author's subject matter dating from quite early onwards, in his career as a writer of fiction.

Presents the story of a fashionable lady who is banished from Versailles by the king. She tries to make the best of living on her country estate, but although she entertains lovers and friends from Paris, she comes to find it intolerable. This is a tale of violence, unrequited passion, and a marriage that is no true marriage.