Fiction: A-Z by Author
LOSING EUGENIO by Geneviève Brisac
In a small flat in Paris, a single mother, Nouk, lives with her son. As winter sets in, she invents a fairytale Christmas. But reality keeps breaking through the brittle facade that Nouk has constructed.
'Geneviève Brisac writes like a slipped smile.' L'Express
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FIRES THE FIRE AND OTHER STORIES by Julio Cortázar
Cortázar’s stories are like small time pieces, where each polished part moves relentlessly on its own particular path, exercising a crucial and perpetual influence on the mechanism as a whole.
THE CIRCUMCISION by
Gyorgy Dalos
Twelve-year-old Robi Singer is the only boy in his class at the Jewish school yet to be circumcised. So should he have the circumcision? Will this affect his position as a self-proclaimed ‘Hungarian Communist Jew for Christ’? It seems that everyone has an opinion, but in the end, the decision is down to Robi.
ON THE BRIGHT ROAD
by Paddy Figgis
'Clever, urgent and uncompromisingly individual.' The Observer
Convinced that he is dying, Cathal Kerr retreats into his lonely cottage, preoccupied with the workings of his own mind and spirit. Meanwhile, in the wood above Cathal's desolate home, in a time overlapping the present, a sixth-century woodsman, the Tracker, watches the movement of beast and man.
ENLIGHTENMENT by Maureen Freely
An investigative journalist returns to Istanbul, the scene of her teenage love affair with Sinan. She is forced to overcome her qualms when she is asked by his 'honeypot' wife to help her regain her son, taken away by American authorities when Sinan is arrested on entry into the States.
DE SADE'S VALET by Nikolaj Frobenius
In eighteenth-century Honfleur, a child is born with a terrifying destiny before him. His name is Latour, and his birth is the result of a brutal rape.
'Extraodinarily enthralling' The Independent on Sunday
'A superior spine-tingler' The Times
LIGHT AT DUSK by Peter Gadol
It's the near future, and in Paris, bombs explode in the Metro and the children of immigrants are kidnapped by angry mobs.
'The intricate plot remains lucid with finely wrought crystalline writing that leads the reader through a spellbinding narrative.' Publishers Weekly Starred Review