Biography & Memoir
Tarantula
Thierry Jonquet
Film by Almodovar, based on Jonquet's novel, starring Antonio Banderas to be released widely in the UK on 26 August
Disaster Was My God
Bruce Duffy
A skilfully imagined novel based on the scandalous and astonishing life of the pioneering, proto-punk poet Arthur Rimbaud.
The Interrogative Mood
Padgett Powell
Precise and beautiful, intimate and hilarious, you will never have read anything quite like it
You & I
Padgett Powell
*WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTION*Described as 'Waiting for Godot on acid', this radiant and enigmatic novel will t…
Against The Machine
Lee Siegel
One of the country's most eloquent and acid-tongued cultural critics.
Dust Devils
Roger Smith
An unflinching portrayal of the dark side of the new South Africa, where to avenge what he loves, Robert Dell becomes what he hates
Far South
David Enrique Spellman
Far South is no ordinary novel — but this is no ordinary disappearance . . .
Stabat Mater
Tiziano Scarpa
In early eighteenth-century Venice an orphan girl discovers life and independence in the music of Vivaldi
Elliot Allagash
Simon Rich
As manipulative as Cruel Intentions, as competitive as Election, as geeky as Napoleon Dynamite, Elliot Allagash is a wonderfully original take on a mu…
Cleaning Up
Tania Glyde
What sets this book apart [is that] it is illuminating about the inner emotional damage that leads to wildly self-destructive behaviour; and also abou…