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Shortly before his death, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather Urbain Martien gave his grandson a set of notebooks containing the detailed memories of his life. He grew up in poverty around 1900, the son of a struggling church painter who died young, and went to work in an iron foundry at only 13. Aftern...

A short, brutal tale by the author of 'The Order of The Day': the story of a moment in Europe's history when the poor rose up and banded together behind a fiery preacher, to challenge the entrenched powers of the ruling elite.

As she stands at the window, the spring sunshine streaming in, Mathilde reflects on the opportunities before her - it's April 1968 and Morocco is changing. Looking out at her garden, the roses - brought in from Marrakech - have bloomed and their sweet, fresh scent pervades the garden. The world i...

From a boy robbed of the power of speech and the friends he makes in a bakery in the mining town of Ugarte, Basque Country, to a group of comrades and their pet magpie in a military base in the dying days of Franco's dictatorship, and eventually adults with the weight of their existence on their ...

Antoine's parents fell in love at first sight. But married too young, and with three small children, Antoine's mother retreats into a world of Sagan novels and cigarette smoke, abandoning the family when Antoine's sister dies. He grows up with a distant father, his only respite the tenderness he ...

First published in Urdu in 1963 and a bestseller throughout the Indian sub-continent, this novel is the story of love between people of different backgrounds, set against the history of the struggle of the people of India against the British Raj.

Biologist Nelly Senff is desperate to escape her life in East Berlin. The Russian father of her two children has supposedly committed suicide, and she wants to leave behind the prying eyes of the Stasi. Nelly pretends she'll marry a West German, who drives her, Katya and Aleksei across the border...

A baby weighing 15 pounds is born in the depths of winter but named 'Girl of Spring'. A storm brings down the roof of a ramshackle restaurant to reveal a hidden fortune. These are just some of the events that set Myeong-Kwan Cheong's beautifully crafted, wild world in motion. Set in a remote vill...

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can't live without them? This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma's deceptively simple 'What I'd Rather Not Think About'. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on...