And Other Stories - Böcker

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize - Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no difference...

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Winner of the 2024 James Tait Black Prize - Fiction Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Shortlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award Winner of the 2023 Queensland Award for Literary Fiction Shortlisted for the 2023 Queensland Premier's Award for a W...

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Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Praised for their dry and gentle humour, these port...

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Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlist As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-p...

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Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname 'Boulder'. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a chil...

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Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Novel Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for 'in the bush.' In it, Simpson and a cast of seven - Akiwenzii, ...

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At an otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painter spots a woman who instantly controls the room: gorgeous and distant and utterly white, the centre of everyone's attention. She wants Hanne, or wants to be her, or to...

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Longlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize Alaa is haunted by his grandmother's memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaa's neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critic...

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Populated by a cast of imagined con artists, holy fools, drag queens, and partisans - as well as some very factual politicians, priests, and generals - this novel started life as a pseudonymous blog written 'live' by 'Shalash' during and after the...

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Winner of the Stella Prize Winner of the Magarey Medal for Biography Winner of the Queensland Literary Award Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 A larger-than-life champion of Aboriginal self-determination, Tracker Tilmouth was w...

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Set in post-war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell'. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the offhanded knowingness of a remorseless ...

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Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2008 A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk all night after mee...

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A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024 AN OBSERVER BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024 Mammoth's protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She's inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to...

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George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He gathers, hand-rears and treasures the birds to be shot at by his wealthy employers. He must ensure that the Duke and his guests have good hunts when the shoot...

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2026 A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family's unravelling; a man...

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Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane's first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. The book begins with the question, 'Must I write?' What follows is both a c...

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Winner of the Llibreter prize chosen by booksellers Longlisted for 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Bar...

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Inland is a work which gathers in emotional power as it moves across the grasslands of its narrator's imagination - from Szolnok County on the great plains of Hungary where a man writes in the library of his manor house, to the Institute of Prairi...

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Winner of the 2025 Hawthornden Prize for Literature Winner of the Wingate Literary Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada Elya is the lad with the vision, and Elya has the map. Ziv and Kiva aren't s...

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New Orleans, 1853. A young Zapotec man named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp along with a small group of fellow political exiles from Mexico. Later, in 1858, he is to become the first indigenous Mexican preside...

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Winner of the 2017 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Winner of the 2019 Bernard Shaw Prize for its translation At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Ch...

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A man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, people, books, ...

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A writer attempts to complete the novel for which he has been awarded a big fat Guggenheim grant, though for a long time he succeeds mainly in procrastinating - getting an electrician to rewire his living room so he can reposition his computer, bu...

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It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle's world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of proofreading telephone directories. His favourite neighbourhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Café Europa, is about to close its doors; the familiar ol...

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Shortlisted for the 2019 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Runner-up in the 2019 Translators Association First Translation Prize Longlisted for the 2019 Best Translated Book Award A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house o...

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A series of luminous vignettes describe the childhood of Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer. Self-contained, interconnected fragments begin with her family's departure to Mendoza in 1910 and end with their return to Buenos Aires and the dea...

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Shortlisted for the 2026 Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada In the 'middle of life' - although this is only thirty-six - and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and th...

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The protagonist of Ti Amo is a woman who is in a deep and real, but relatively new relationship with a man from Milan. She has moved there, they have married, and they are close in every way. Then he is diagnosed with cancer. It's serious, but the...

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Winner of the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Shortlisted for the 2016 August Prize Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize Malmö, Sweden. A cellist meets a spun-out junkie. That could have been me. His mind starts to glitch be...

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Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple that has fled to the far reaches of the Earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that...

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