Books

Jonathon Bender had something to say to the world, but the world wouldn’t listen. However, he left behind unsent letters addressed to relatives, friends, teachers, classmates, professors, roommates, employers, former girlfriends, his ex-wife, the...
By: Michael Kimball

At the outbreak of the First World War, the notorious poet-boxer and draft-dodger Arthur Cravan embarked on a mad flight that took him from Modernist Paris to revolutionary Mexico, where he disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Ninety years...
By: David Lalé

Traumatized by an accident which ‘involved something falling from the sky’ and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, Remainder ’s hero spends his time and money obsessively...
By: Tom McCarthy

Rats and human beings aren’t that far apart from each other in The Rat-Killer . As the political intrigue of post-communist reality develops into nightmare, the greed, cunning and malice of the humans increasingly resemble the behaviour of the large...
By: Alexander Terekhov

Rafael Molinet Rojas, an inconspicuous Spaniard living in London, feels that life is not worth living when his mother, his closest companion, dies. Hoping to make a dignified and stylish exit from this world, Molinet plans his last days, picking an...
By: Carmen Posadas

When the fictional amateur detective Carmen O’Inns is called upon to investigate the mysterious death of a boy at a prestigious school, both teachers and pupils are in the frame as suspects. Meanwhile, the novelist Luisa Dávila, her creator, finds...
By: Carmen Posadas

A brilliant student with a promising career ahead of him as a biologist under the guidance of Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod, Michel Benoît decided at the age of twenty­-two to follow the path of God and take on monastic orders as Brother Irénée....
By: Michel Benoît

When his friend Andrei is mysteriously killed on a train on his way back from Rome, Father Nil, a Benedictine who teaches the Gospel of St John to novices, decides to conduct his own investigation. The dead priest possessed proof of the existence of...
By: Michel Benoît

Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and remarkable scientists of our age, and author of the scientific bestseller A Brief History of Time , which sold over 25 million copies across the world. In this compelling memoir, his first wife...
By: Jane Hawking