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The narrator of Love and Garbage has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper.

This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true.

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.

In these newly discovered stories, Hrabal captures men and women in an eerily beautiful nightmare and their spirit in all its misery and splendour.

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In her only novel, Alice Munro turns her eye to the frustrations, embarrassments, glee and bewilderment of adolescence, and to the brushes with sex, death, violence and birth that shape the lives of girls and women.

Alice Munros peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection.

Tells of Edward Lincoln, a famous film action man, who finds himself unexpectantly mixed up in a deadly conspiracy.

Detective Harry Hole: an angry and off-the-rails detective who wants to play the game by his own rules

Harry Hole and his team are in a race against time to crack the identity of a violent bank robber who always seems one step ahead.

A wave of similar murders is on the horizon. An emerging pattern suggests that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands, and the five-pointed devil’s star is key to solving the riddle.

Detective Harry Hole of the Oslo police is an alcoholic but has been pulled back together with the help of his work partner Ellen Gjelten.

In Rattlesnakes, three young Americans find themselves lost in the desert, held captive by armed Mexicans;, in The Dogs of Lincoln Park, a mysterious Korean chef may or may not have something to do with the disappearance of a socialite s pooch ...

When a man''s favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple''s midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald''s

If Raymond Chandler had lived long enough to see Blade Runner, he might have written something like Dance Dance Dance - Observer

A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful-it is startlingly different: a true original - Guardian

The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-nihgt diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home...