World Literature
All the Rivers
Dorit Rabinyan
A haunting love story between a young Israeli translator and a Palestinian painter
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek's most famous novel is an explicit, shocking exploration of sex and fantasy
The Passport
Herta Muller
A beautiful, haunting novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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
Tarantula
Thierry Jonquet
Film by Almodovar, based on Jonquet's novel, starring Antonio Banderas to be released widely in the UK on 26 August
Stabat Mater
Tiziano Scarpa
In early eighteenth-century Venice an orphan girl discovers life and independence in the music of Vivaldi
Memoirs Of A Porcupine
Alain Mabanckou
Outlandish, surreal and enjoyable, Mabanckou brings his unique sense of humour to magic realism
Whatever
Michel Houellebecq
'The mischief-making enfant terrible of new-wave French fiction' Independent
Happiness
Denis Robert
Robert's book is aptly a brief, intense experience that can be read in the time it takes for an afternoon liaison
Beer in the Snooker Club
Waguih Ghali
Known and loved by readers and writers since first publication, now back in print as a Serpent's Tail Classic
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
A prize-winning international classic, first published in English by Serpent's Tail in 1993, now with a new introduction by William Boyd
The Buenos Aires Quintet
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Montalban is a writer who is caustic about the powerful and tender towards the oppressed
Marks of Identity
Juan Goytisolo
A masterpiece which should whet the appetites of British readers for the rest of the trilogy