Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. Learn More

Following on from 'A Change in Climate', this brilliant novel follows two girls as they leave behind their pasts and set off to the new preoccupations of 1970s London. Learn More

William Boyd's An Ice-Cream War was published in 1982, an auspicious debut by a young writer who would go on to be recognised as 'the finest storyteller of his generation' (Sebastain Faulks) Learn More

Any Human Heat is an ambitious, all-encompassing novel. Through the intimate journals of Logan Mounstuart we travel from Uruguay to Oxford, on to Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, and meet his three wives, his family, his friends and colleagues, his rivals, enemies and lovers, including notables such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf. Learn More

A profound and moving novel, this is the story about the search to feel at home in your own skin. Learn More

It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Learn More

Shirley Hazzard's stories are sharp, sensitive portrayals of moments of crisis. Whether they are set in the Italian countryside or suburban Connecticut, the stories deal with real people and real problems. Moving and evocative, these ten stories are written with subtlety, humour and a keen understanding of the relationships between men and women. Learn More

From the award-winning author of 'Clear' comes an epic novel of startling originality. ' Learn More

Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too. Now in 1949, employed as an extra in a war film that echoes his real experience, Day begins to recall what he would rather forget... Learn More