Item category 2: City of Literature

A unique anthology, this volume gathers the shortlist of the world's biggest short story prize, as featured on 'Front Row'.

Now living in France, the American poet Marilyn Hacker's latest collection explores Paris, language, refugees and revolution.

Adele Robinson is locked up - convicted for the murder of her abusive father. She quickly realises that she'll have to play it tough if she's going to survive, and soon gains a reputation for standing her ground. Meanwhile, her brother Peter is building his criminal empire on the outside - runnin...

Jeff Noon returns with a staggering hallucinogenic sequel to 'A Man of Shadows', taking hapless investigator John Nyquist into a city where reality is contaminated by the imagination of its citizens. In a city dissolving into an infected sprawl of ideas, where words come to life and reality is co...

Tehran is Iran's most secular and liberal city. It is a city that is so much more than your usual chaotic maze of concrete and traffic jams thick with air pollution. This is the beating heart of Iran, a creative tour de force and the place to be to get a handle on modern Iran and what its future ...

'The Book of Tokyo' collects ten stories by some of Japan's most exciting contemporary short story writers. Together, the stories form a kind of 'literary map' of this ever-changing city's districts, through its fiction. With literary fiction, crime, sci-fi and horror, the book provides an imagin...

Something is biting people on the streets of Whitby. In an ordinary town, this would be worrying. Here, it's disastrous, and only Brenda has guessed why. She's also trying to prepare for a packed festive break at her B&B, but her best friend Effie is in distracted mood.

When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to ...

Pere Gimferrer has written more than thirty books spanning verse, fiction, essay, and criticism. The present collection, the first book-length publication of Gimferrer's Catalan poetry in English, brings together work from all phases of his career.

Hong Kong, 2012. Dimitri Johnson, a British Hongkonger, learns that he is dying. Stunned by the news, he goes to the annual candlelight vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. How strange, he thinks, the nearly dead honouring the memory of the already dead. Over on the mainland, D...