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Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writersBringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection shows his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human...

A New Collection of Black British Poetry In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream...

A classic coming-of-age story from Jamaica Kincaid, following a young woman as she enters adulthood against the backdrop of a strange and unfamiliar country.Lucy, a teenage girl from the West...

Translated by Chi-Young Kim WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins...

Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother. Xuela’s vivid, visceral...

A perfect miniature of a novel about arrivals and departures, new worlds and old homes.A beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem, Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali...

The prize-winning debut fiction work by Amit Chaudhuri, the author whose 'languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to put in any category at all' (Salman Rushie).Abhi, a Bengali boy,...

Beloved, enigmatic Japanese folk talesDark and whimsical tales from one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers, these Japanese fairy tales are enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and...

A cult cyberpunk masterpiece, and Ryu Murakami's most famous novel. Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Tired of the bustling city, a man takes...

A captivating and unexpected collection of two female Japanese poets from the 9th and 10th centuriesHere is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They...

The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who...

Shanghai Dancing is the most highly regarded and popular novel by multi-award winning Australian author, Brian Castro. In it, his fictional persona Antonío Castro faces dispossession in Australia after the...

The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published — a poem that embraces the theme 'seize the moment''One thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is...

Essential storiesA new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasyThe sage Confucius travels to a kingdom ruled by a...

A modern classic of American fiction: a haunting collection of stories that explore the lost loves and complex desires of Chinese-American immigrant familiesThe novella and five stories that make up...

A Collection of Black British PoetryThis seminal collection of Black British poets ignited a movement when it was first published in 1998. It celebrated the rising stars of the time,...

'A book that shifted my life... Epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant' VIOLA DAVIS on Wild Seed 'A literary pioneer' — VANITY FAIR The baby's name is Mary, and her father...

'Butler's evocative, often troubling novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' — NEW YORK TIMES Blake Maslin is a doctor. In...

'One of African literature's most fascinating and unorthodox figures' Brian Chikwava 'When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded...

With a new introduction by Robert Jones, Jr, author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets 'Gloria Naylor is a brilliant word-worker and a breathtaking story-teller. Mama Day is her masterpiece' Tayari Jones...

In the late fifteenth century, a young Dominican friar sets out on a journey from Paris to Florence in search of manuscripts of pre-Christian philosophy. Along the way, he encounters...

"A breathtakingly beautiful world…reminding us that we are part of the universe." —Kaori Nagai "A modern classic." —NPR Lonely and awkward, Giovanni struggles with his sick mother, absent father, and...

Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there's Son.Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town Florida who...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma.The inevitability of this...

Translated by Sam Bett For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer. A fictional writer in his...

Translated by Edwin McClellan “Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature.” — Haruki Murukami One of the best-selling novels of all time in Japan:...

Translated by Van C. Gessel A group of Japanese tourists journey to the sacred River Ganges, each on a secret personal pilgrimage. Widower Isobe mourns for the devoted wife he...

 A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEEThe international bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author'Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his generation' Financial...

The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of ‘Bhaji on the Beach’. The story of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village...

'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off...

The masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths...

Amy Tan's bestselling classic novel of mothers and daughters.Four Chinese women, four America daughters - can they learn to understand each other?In 1949 a group of Chinese women, recent immigrants...

Sappho Clark—beautiful, mysterious, Southern—arrives in Boston to earn her living as a stenographer. She lodges with the Smith family and immediately becomes a source of fascination to the them: Ma...

In this collection of essays on African and Caribbean literature, culture, and politics, Ngugi wa Thiong'o delivers a groundbreaking critique of colonialism and capitalism in postcolonial Africa. In these essays,...

Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka's debut novel tells the story of a group of friends facing political corruption and cultural uncertainty in post-independence Nigeria. Friends since high school, Egbo, Bandele, Sagoe,...

Translated by G.D. Pickett Part history, part legend, this is the story of Sundiata Keita: the heroic figure who founded the empire of Mali. A thirteenth-century oral epic, Sundiata sees...

This collection of short stories sees Ama Ata Aidoo, one of Africa's leading feminist and postcolonial writers, exercise the powerful effect of oral storytelling in her moving tales of shifting...

Classic Stories from Korea's Enchanted Past Fifty-five folktales offer a fascinating window into the Korean world. Told with wit and pathos, this lively collection of Korean fables features the ever-iconic...

Translated by Stephen Snyder FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE'A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to...

An endlessly ingenious battle across Japan between dogged detective Akechi Kogoro and the many-faced thief Gold MaskA frenzied test of wits between ace detective Akechi Kogoro and the seemingly superhuman...

'The undisputed masterpiece of negritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism' Guardian'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.' This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the negritude movement...

 'Flawless' – David Mitchell 'A masterpiece’ – Daily Telegraph Winner of the Tanizaki Prize  Published in 1967 in Japan to huge controversy, Silence is Shusaku Endo's most highly acclaimed novel and a classic...

In this poignant novel, award-winning author, Charles Mungoshi, explores the consequences of colonialism in 1960s Zimbabwe. Waiting for the Rain asks how a nation can look to the future and...

In The New Tribe, pioneering author Buchi Emecheta tells the tale of a young Nigerian boy adopted by a white family. Life changes overnight for the Arlingtons when an abandoned...

Ripples in the Pool is a symbolic and powerful novel that delves into the tragedy and spiritual disconnection in rural Africa. Central characters, like Selina, a former prostitute, and Gikere,...

Karen King-Aribisala brilliantly transposes Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to modern-day Nigeria in this magnificent tale of forty very different travellers thrown together on a bus journey from Lagos to the new...

In this dark and deeply radical novel, Dambudzo Marechera offers a visceral account of a photojournalist's entanglement with a terrorist organisation. In an unnamed totalitarian state, the members of Black...

Originally published in 1899, Dom Casmurro is widely considered to be Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's masterpiece and a progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction. This exuberant new translation captures all the...

A Life in Twenty Stories "Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras."...