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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.

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.

Set in Copenhagen during the terrifying polio epidemic of the early 1950s, Iron Lung is a poetic allegory of adolescence, and an unsettling and subtle commentary on sexuality, medicine, and technology.

On the Greenwich Line traces the absurdities of racism, austerity, and bureaucracy in contemporary London. This is a story about systemic failure and personal courage, and about London and its many lost souls, told with wisdom, humour and profound humanity.

A family at the end of the 20th century in all its complexity: full of secrets, questions, and love. Hüseyin has been working in Germany, carefully saving to buy an apartment back in Istanbul. But just as this new future is in reach, his tired heart gives up. The children rush to him, each of them conflicted as they process the news.

A new surgical intervention promises to free women from mental illness. The doctor promises patients a productive life, free from suffering. Meret, a nurse on the surgical ward, is proud to be a part of the solution. But when she falls in love with another nurse, she crosses an invisible boundary and her certainty in the system begins to crumble.

Growing up in East Germany, as the child of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set up to become a model citizen of the GDR. But she has other ideas. And so does the course of history. Half Swimmer is a series of memories from one life, following a girl as she forges her own identity under the GDR and the capitalism of a unified Germany.

The Alencar Costa e Oliveira family talk to each other in inside jokes, often saying the opposite of what they mean, or repeating the same sentence until it acquires new meaning. But the family has another characteristic: they all die of acute melancholy.

On the heels of a cryptic mistake, Nat arrives in the rural village of La Escapa. She rents a small house from a negligent landlord, adopts a dog and begins to work on her first literary translation. But nothing in La Escapa is easy: her dog is ill tempered and skittish, and mutual misunderstandings with her neighbours simmer below the surface. When conflict arises over repairs to her house, Nat receives an unusual offer - one that tests her sense of self and reveals her most unexpected desires. As Nat tries to understand her decision, the community of La Escapa comes together in search of a scapegoat.

New Year''s Eve. The last day of the last year of human existence. A high-ranking minister criss-crosses the city with blood on his hands, a dying necrophile attempts to go clean before God, and a traumatised nurse is pressured into keeping a powerful secret. With undisguised glee, a nameless narrator unravels these twisted tales of moral turmoil, all of which are brought to an abrupt close by a cataclysmic collision of time and space. What will remain on New Year''s Day? In a cabin in the Alps, the last people on earth - a musicologist and her young daughter - search for a five-hundred-year-old musical score that might explain the catastrophe. Outside the cabin, hidden in shadow, a sinister figure waits for them to accept their fate.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

It's October 1918 and the war is drawing to a close. Toussaint Caillet returns home to his wife, Jeanne, and their young daughter. With the promise of peace now in sight, the family must try to stitch together 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 family is torn apart by their dream of a better future in the West. A true story narrated through the eyes of a child.

The editors have taken nine refugees, taught them the basics of creative writing, and asked them to tell their "Shatila Stories". The result is a miracle - a piece of collaborative fiction unlike any other. If you want to understand the chaos of the Middle East - or you just want to follow the course of a beautiful love story - start here.

Relaxing Nordic hygge in a novel; the entire story takes place in two minutes. The serene spirit of anIcelandic fishing village is captured from an unusual perspective: the wind.

The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English. This is an intimate portrayal of three generations of women with everything on the line. The Soviet state steps in and leaves them destitute. All seems lost, until the political change stirring in Riga offers them a chance to take their lives back.

A little girl lives happily with her mother in war-torn Paris. She has never met her father, a prisoner of war in Germany. But then he returns and her mother switches her devotion to her husband. The girl realizes that she must win over her father to recover her position in the family. She confides a secret that will change their lives.

The eight short stories in breach explore the refugee crisis through fiction. Dlo and Jan break into refrigerated trucks bound for the UK. Marjorie, a volunteer, is happy to mingle in the camp until her niece goes a step too far. Mariam lies to her mother back home. With humour, insight and empathy breach tackles an issue we can no longer ignore.

A psychological thriller by the pioneering German writer Ricarda Huch. A novel of letters from the last century - but one with an astonishingly modern feel. Now for the first time in English.

An elderly lady offers a young woman a piece of cake. She accepts. The lady resembles the Austrian Empress Elisabeth and lives with her servant in an apartment full of bizarre souvenirs. More invitations follow. Without realizing, the young woman has become the lady's accomplice. Does she realize she is losing control?

The impressively entertaining tale about the frailty of human civilisation by the leading Flemish writer Peter Verhelst, now for the first time in English.