The brilliant new novel from Charlotte Wood, acclaimed author of The Natural Way of Things .

Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves.

By turns illuminating, confronting and deeply personal, Imperfect challenges us all to consider how we exist in the world and how our bodies shape the people we become.   

A novel of longing and thwarted desires, filled with Elsa Morante's brutal directness and familial torment (James Wood), Arturo's Island reemerges in this splendid translation to take its rightful place in the world literary...

Searing fiction smuggled out of North Korea - the English PEN Translates Award winner, now in paperback

Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice is a work of creative non-fiction that details the author's experiences of deafness after losing most of her hearing at age four. It charts how, as she grew up, she was estranged...

Atmospheric and beguiling Field of Poppies is a novel the seduces the reader with mysteries and beauties but also speaks of something much larger.

Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr, translated by Carl W. Ernst, is a definitive collection of poems by Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, a famed early Sufi poet who influenced Rumi. The poems are known both for their literary artistry and...

What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with...

A luminous and remarkable memoir of a singular life in art and nature.

The rich, revealing, and thrilling story of five women whose lives and painting propelled a revolution in modern art

It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?    

In 1978, Evan Pederick, a naive 22-year-old in the thrall of a radical religious movement, Ananda Marga, placed an enormous bomb outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel. Here is his story, told for the first time - an extraordinary tale of...