Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common – and perhaps the most wounding – is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studi...

This lyrical novel tells the story of a young man living in Egypt in the 1990s, a time of great turmoil. We see student riots at Cairo University, radical politics, and the first steps towards the making of a writer. But his story is not told in isol...

The proud Republic of Liberia was founded in the nineteenth century with the triumphant return of freed slaves from America to Africa. Once back "home," however, these Americo-Liberians had to integrate into the resident tribes – who did not necessar...

"The Stranger" is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be fou...

This beautiful collectible edition presents three novels from one of the most loved American authors: Louisa May Alcott. It includes her most famous and cherished classic, Little Women, about the lives of four sisters in America during the Civil War,...

What can be found in the Vatican's Secret Archive? How many books did Charles Darwin's library aboard the Beagle hold? Which library is home to a colony of bats? Bursting with potted histories, quirky facts and enlightening lists, this book explores...

We are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces – time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion – win victories over us each day. We all "know" this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained – in...

"Ruven Preuk stands apart from the village, on an August day in 1911, and listens". Thus begins an epic bildungsroman about the life of Ruven Preuk, son of the wainwright, child of a sleepy village in Germany's north, where life is both simple and ha...

Bengali writer Riza Rahman is the author of more than fifty novels, as well as countless short stories, set in Bangladesh and bringing to life the difficult, mostly forgotten lives of its poorest and most disadvantaged citizens. "Letters of Blood" is...

An abundant, moving collection by the leading formal poet and Persian translator of our time. Including poems from eight previous collections, new poems, and excerpts of Davis verse translation from medieval Persian poetry (some over 700 years old).