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Adam Thirwell
Marie Antoinette meets Gossip Girl in this supermodern novel of scandal and slander, from the two-time Granta Best Young British Novelist
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Adam Thirlwell
Translation, and emigration, is the way into a new history of the novel. We assume that we can read novels in translation. We also assume that style does not translate…
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Short-listed for the Goldsmiths Prize
A wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment: a historical…
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Witold Gombrowicz, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (trans.)
A darkly funny and subversive Gothic horror novel by Poland's greatest modernist.
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Andrei Bely
St Petersburg, 1905. An impressionable young university student, Nikolai, becomes involved with a revolutionary terror organization, which plans to assassinate a high government official with a time bomb. But the…
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"A madcap story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment, Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future is a…
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Victor Hugo
Read the masterful story of romance and revolution behind the hit BBC TV series. Les Miserables is a novel peopled by colourful characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld;
Franz Kafka
One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. The…
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Witold Gombrowicz
From "a master of verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail" (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz's harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English…
In a spa town snug in the Alps, at the end of the twentieth century, the 78-year-old Haffner is seeking a cure, redress, more women; and ignoring the will of…
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2003.
Lurid & Cute takes place in the suburbs of a giant city, where our narrator lives at home with his parents, together with his wife and dog. He has had…
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In a forgotten spa town snug in the Alps, the 78-year-old Haffner is seeking a cure, redress, more women; and ignoring the will of his wife. He is there to…
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Tells the story of a father and daughter. This book also tells the story of a menage a trois. It explores crucial domestic problems of sexual etiquette. What should sleeping…
Bohumil Hrabal
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL ‘Our very best writer today’ Milan Kundera Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of…
Henry Green
A novel about working-class factory life in Birmingham. Lily Gates keeps house for her widowed father, her timid suitor, Jim, and the patriarch, Craighan, whose house it is. The household…
J. G. Ballard
The second in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of ‘Empire of the Sun’, ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell.
First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of ‘Empire of the Sun’, ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell.
Danilo Kis
Against a background of oppression and exile, the debate between death and writing continues unabated in The Lute and the Scars death as allegory or symbolic act, and writing as…
