State Counsellor

From the writer who reinvented the Russian crime novel, a gripping tale of political subterfuge and murder in turn-of-the-century Moscow featuring the inimitable hero Erast Fandorin.

Serve the People!

“Yan Lianke’s Serve the People! is a scathing sendup of life in 1960s China during the chaos of the country’s Cultural Revolution. . . . a wonderfully biting satire, brimming…

A Place to Stand

“The finest memoir I’ve read in I don’t know how long. It reminded me of the rawness of George Orwell combined with the human exuberance of Neruda’s memoirs. . ….

The Penelopiad

“Atwood rescues Penelope from thousands of years of ho-hum-dom . . . part of Canongate’s innovative new reinventions of the classics.” –Yvonne Zipp, Christian Science Monitor…

Passing On

“Passing On feels like real life drawn to scale, where private dreams dwarf the daily routine. . . . An expert at articulating character through place . . . Lively…

Old Rosa and The Brightest Star

Old Flames

“A rich mixture of political intrigue and old-fashioned mayhem. . . . Tangled webs of deceit are standard in mysteries, but British author John Lawton takes the idea to nearly…

Mountain Language

“[Mountain Language] effortlessly encapsulates the world. . . . If to want, to have, to use or abuse power over others is the essence of politics, then Pinter has been…

Miss Burma

Set against the vibrant backdrop of Burma from the 1940s to the 1960s, Miss Burma is a powerful and epic novel that follows one prominent Burmese family struggling to overcome…

Living in a Foreign Language

“A satisfying look into the good life.” —Publishers Weekly…