A collection of poems and an epic, this work is a philosophical and political exploration of the nature of language, perception and reality.

Jacques Deza is in a kind of limbo. Separated from his wife and child, living in London to make a break from Spain, he has found work with an M16-like organisation who employ him for his acute powers of observation and insight into human nature. But, as Jacques discovers, it is not possible to distance yourself from other human beings entirely.

A collection of fourteen stories set largely in the world of the Chilean diaspora in Central America and Europe.

Shows the author as an acute observer of life in a provincial cathedral city and a sharp critic of the clerical establishment, moved by the predicament of women - tightly swaddled in conformities yet fevered in their imaginations in the illusions of romance.

Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir, part philosophical musings, this work serves as a labyrinth in which writers cross endlessly surprising paths, while the author's protagonist leads the reader on a journey from European cities to the Azores and the Chilean port of Valparaiso.

At High Table in an Oxford College, the pretty, young tutor, Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not least to her fetching decolletage. No one's eyes were sharper, however, than those of the visiting Spanish lecturer, invited as a guest on this occasion. In due course, the two young people were lovers, unbeknown to Clare's husband, Andif.

As provocative and amusing as when it was first published over sixty years ago.

Christie Malry is a simple person. Born into a family without money, he realised early along in the game that best way to come by money was to place himself next to it. So he took a job as a junior bank clerk in a stuffy bank. It was at the bank that Christie discovered principles of double-entry book keeping, from which he evolved his Great Idea.

A collection of essays and interviews which reflect on Auster's attitude to writing and literature, on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing, and the ways writers attempt to explore memory and identity. It includes his essay 'A Prayer for Salman Rushdie'.

Kenneth Rexroth's One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1955) proved such an extremely popular book that he put together a sequel. The poems are representative of a large range of classical, medieval, and modern poetry, but the emphasis, as in him companion Chinese collections (1955 and 1970), is on folk songs and love lyrics.

Juan knows little about his widowed father Ranz, a man with a troubled past. The unspoken dialogue between father and son, however, becomes a spelling-out of the horrifying truth once Juan has been married for a year to Luisa and she turns discreet confessor to the burdened old man.

A story of how the unbelievable came true, this book is about Ditie, a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion to the victory of Communism.

At moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. This experience is further complicated when we try to transform experience into writing, and fact clashes with memory. Sebald's novel, part fiction, part travelogue explores this theme.

Captures the splendour and magic of Greece, concentrating not only on the landscape but also the people. This narrative contains portraits of poets and artists, chief among them Katsimbalis, the Colossus himself.

On a crowded bus at midday, the author observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man appropriates it. In another part of town, the author sees the man being advised by a friend to sew another button on his overcoat. This book retells this tale ninety-nine times in 99 different styles.