Horror on the farm

Rural life on a weather-beaten island

An elegant, thoughtful novel of memory and art

Sci-fi writers turn to detective fiction

A winsome manual for living

An intricate character study

A raw, magnetic portrait of reason unspooling

A sombre, beautiful portrayal of human nature

Dark, funny, and winsome

A caper across Europe on the road to death

Murder and superstition in northern Spain

Jansson brilliantly captures the voice of a child

A journalist in Nazi Berlin

A writer learns Italian

When her husband drowns, impoverished widow Miyuki undertakes a hazardous journey.

It’s a short, bitter chain from meet-cute to murder in Ernesto Sábato’s The Tunnel.

A beautiful, unsettling book