Fiction

Mouths of Babes
Stella Duffy
This book shouldn't just be seen as a great piece of crime writing; it's a fine novel, as good as anything you'll read this year from a li…

What In God's Name
Simon Rich
How can you help mankind, when they won't help themselves? Welcome to Heaven Inc, and Craig's life.

Albert of Adelaide
Howard L. Anderson
A story of the Australian Outback, a duck-billed platypus on a quest, and what it means to be a hero.

Weirdo
Cathi Unsworth
Wicked Witch of the East, the tabloids called her. Bloody Weirdo, is what the locals said.

One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed
Melissa P.
Love may be hard to find, but sex waits at every turn

The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
Catherine Millet
The sensational erotic memoir that shocked the world, now re-issued as a Serpent's Tail Classic.

The Last Patriarch
Najat El Hachmi
A riveting debut novel of fathers and daughters, and the conflict between duty and desire, set in rural Morocco and urban Cataluña

School For Patriots
Martin Kohan
Set during the time of the Falklands War – a shocking exposure of the moral degradation that contaminated institutions of Argentinian society

The Imperative Mood
Padgett Powell
Padgett Powell moves from the interrogative to the imperative mood in this exclusive short

Wavewalker
Stella Duffy
Clever, cunning and careful to avoid the obvious, Wavewalker is a real treat

Tarantula
Thierry Jonquet
Film by Almodovar, based on Jonquet's novel, starring Antonio Banderas to be released widely in the UK on 26 August

The Origin of Violence
Fabrice Humbert
Winner of the inaugural French Orange Prize in 2009 and the Prix Renaudot's livre de poche prize