A selection of new titles to ease me through the rainy summer: some mysteries, some thrillers, some eerie stories, some ghosts that roam with the living. I’m keenly awaiting the publication of Pedro Almodóvar’s short story collection – I’m a such fan of his films and hope to find some of his poignant and irreverent humour on the page.
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A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and London - from the bestselling author of The Bass RockA story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between…
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Translated by Antonia Lloyd-JonesIn September 1913, Mieczyslaw Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its…
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Translated by Robin MyersA junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts .This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die – to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not…
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Translated by Megan McDowellA delicious, diabolical collection of short stories, from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of NightMariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady…
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The devastatingly decadent new novel from the agenda-setting, bestselling author.'Akwaeke Emezi is a major talent.' - NoViolet Bulawayo'A once-in-a-generation voice.' Vulture'Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self.' Vanity…
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Translated by James Young and Sophie LewisThe Alencar Costa e Oliveira family talk to each other through inside jokes, often saying the opposite of what they mean, or repeating the same sentence until it acquires new meaning. But they…
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Translated by Frank WynneA wildly inventive story collection from legendary film director Pedro AlmodóvarThe Last Dream brings together for the first time twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal…
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