The scintillating new novel from the author of The End of Mr Y

Patricia Highsmith meets White Lotus in this compulsive and brilliant gothic thriller

‘Like a darker, funnier The White Lotus, The Sleepwalkers is horrifying in the best possible way. I loved every moment of it.’ James Smythe

‘The Sleepwalkers is brilliant, savage and hilarious. The voice is so strong and so distinctive from the get-go, so bold and pitilessly funny. There is no whingeing here, just a fearless takedown which ...

Srđan Srdić's collection of short stories, Combustions, establishes this author's position as one of the best prose writers in Serbia and across the region. This book consists of nine stories in which the author brings the reader face to face with the seamy side of everyday life, where, somewhere in the province, hopelessness and despair of the endless Balkan transition meet one another in the most radical way. Devoid of illusions of social engagement and narrative tricks, Srdić linguistic...

In 1987, Bart Leerschool leaves together with his wife Irene for the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. He is deployed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to gain experience at the United Nations, in particular the international refugee organisation UNHCR. It is the beginning of a long series of events in a world where refugees are spit out by war and violence and are looking for protection and a dignified existence.

Flight to Mombasa tells the story of Bart: a UN official who had to stand his g...

Through playful poetic prose, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor, Love the World or Get Killed Trying dives into the mind of Alvina, a trans woman on the eve of turning thirty. The reader is invited to follow her journey through the breathtaking wilderness of Iceland and busy city boulevards of Berlin and Paris as she probes questions of eternity, sexuality, longing, death, love, and how hard it is to remain soft when you're a continuous target of straight men's secret...

Melanie Dwyer has had some disappointments to deal with lately. She’s lost her corporate job and her lover of many years just moved out. Buying an old house miles from nowhere in eastern Ontario, to run a bed and breakfast with a definite ‘green’ agenda, might be considered a poorly-researched decision, but she is undaunted. Along with her country education, she finds new friends―people with far more memorable lives than most of the city folk Mel knew. Together, they form a family for...

Ten years ago five friends took a decision and left Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam. Full of hope and dreams they bought a cheap old farm in Italy and renovated the house with their own hands. None of them would ever have thought that one fine day the German Tax Office would put a spoke in the wheel and destroy their beautiful plans. To survive and to avoid that they have to leave Italy they come up with creative and unorthodox ideas to solve their financial misery.

As the anti-German sentiment in Britain rises and the conflict between Britain and Germany escalates, half-German Royal Navy Officer, the always calm, serene and confident Hugh Edwards, faces professional and personal challenges as he tries to conceal his past fearing the growing anti-german sentiment in Britain. Will he free himself? And if so, at what costs?

Suspecting that her husband is unfaithful to her, the charming violet embarks on a romantic quest, searching for her mysterious admir...

Darkly and amusingly written, Poor Me is about a self-destructive 26-year-old man named Matthew who finds himself wandering between loneliness and companionship. Being a lonesome drinker, he has the tendency to cause trouble wherever he goes. His life isn't nearly as exciting as his expectations wanted it to be so he does unforgivable attempts to pursuit happiness while destroying other's.

"Ulysses" by James Joyce is a novel that follows the events of a single day, June 16th, 1904, in the lives of three main characters: Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom. The story takes place in Dublin, Ireland, and is divided into 18 chapters, each with its own unique style and structure.

The novel explores various themes, including identity, mortality, and the search for meaning in life. Joyce uses stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques and a variety of literary styles to ...

"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" is a novel written by Edwin A. Abbott in 1884. The story is set in a two-dimensional world called Flatland, where the inhabitants, geometrical shapes, are restricted to movement within two dimensions. The book satirizes Victorian society and explores the limitations of perception and understanding.

The protagonist, a square, discovers the existence of a one-dimensional world called Lineland and a three-dimensional world called Spaceland. He struggles t...