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Agota Kristof's celebrated trilogy of novels exploring the after-effects of trauma and the nature of story-telling in the context of Nazi occupation and Soviet 'liberation' at the end of World War Two.

The fictional travel diary of an English writer invited to a country in which there are officially no dogs.

New poetry collection and essays by the prize-winning author of Murmur

The final book of the Polish theatre director Tadeusz Bradecki (1955-2022), The End of Ends is a book about art and story-telling that contains an embedded novel.

A fantasia on the life of Bebe Rebozo, Cuban-American sidekick to President Richard Milhous Nixon, Bebe dives into a swamp of big dicks, bad politics and worse jokes, exploding cigars and lost episodes of I Love Lucy.

First English translation (by Kathleen Shields) of a classic book on Paris by the celebrated French poet Jean Follain (1903-71).

An innovative memoir of growing up in London from the 1950s to the 1980s, written in a variety of genres.

Second collection from a poet whose first book was received with wide acclaim.

A book about literary obsession by two writers who have both written acclaimed novels about the 19th-century French writer Stendhal.

Prize-winning first collection by the poet JO Morgan, a verse narrative of childhood on the Isle of Skye

Narrated in a series of brief vignettes, The Illiterate is Kristof 's memoir of her childhood, her escape from Hungary in 1956 with her husband and small child, her early years working in factories in Switzerland, and the writing of her first novel, The Notebook.

Coping with the fallout of her relationships with a twin sister, an ex-girlfriend and a boyfriend, Siobhan is forced to acknowledge her own violent logic of self-preservation.

Memories of growing up in Moscow in the 1980s retold by an acclaimed poet, with colour and black-and-white photographs.

Fourth and final volume in a series documenting Anglo-Finnish relations and acclaimed by the TLS as 'a fascinating prism through which to view modern Finland'.

A memoir about books, mostly - and bonfires, cliches, dystopias, failure, happiness, jokes, justice, privilege, publishing, rejection, self-loathing, shoplifting and umbrellas - by an author who has published poetry, fiction and non-fiction under his own name and pen names.

Flickerbook is the classic autobiography of the writer Leila Berg (1917-2012), who grew up in a Jewish immigrant neighbourhood in Salford, Greater Manchester. It recreates childhood pleasures and fears, relationships with family and lovers, and growing political engagement. It ends with the first air-raid siren in London September 1939.

Memories of growing up in an ordinary but loving family in Lancashire in the 1940s and early 50s, brought to the page with an almost pre-verbal immediacy.

Drawing deeply on O'Brien's experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and of collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, 'afraid and hopeful', we begin to tell them.

The preoccupations of Brilliant Corners include the tangible damage inflicted by empires, plunder of the global money markets, disfigured lives, and the bitter salves of Western privilege. Engaging with writers and artists in the European canon, the poems take necessary risks in their scrupulous approach to different experiences.

An urgent and insightful response to Covid and the public events of 2020, written in instalments between March and August 2020 in the poem-journal form of Autumn Journal, Louis MacNeice's widely-admired personal response to the rise of Fascism in the late 1930s

Published to mark the 300th anniversary of first publication of Robinson Crusoe, Good Morning Mr Crusoe argues that the legacy of Defoe's novel is racism and misogyny embedded in the fabric of British society.

City Works Dept. has work to to: repairs, maintenance, above all the paying of attention to a stratum of British society whose people and occupations have suffered from long neglect. Philip Hancock's poems do the job with patience, empathy and unshowy skill.

In his first collection of poetry after a career as a novelist spanning five decades, Paul Bailey offers in Inheritance an intimate reckoning. The poems mine memories of childhood, illness and lost loves with unflinching honesty, a generous humour born of self-knowledge, and great depth of feeling.