Harvill Press

Staying On

Stone Raft

The Bridge On The River Kwai

The Cave

The Common Reader: Volume 2

The Elefant vanishes

H Murakami

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; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster...

The Elefant vanishes

H. Murakami

The Fatal Shore

The Gospel According To Jesus Christ

This book is a retelling of the Gospel following the life of Christ from his conception to his crucifixion. A naive Jesus is the son not of God, but of Joseph. In the desert it is not Satan, but God that Christ...

The Heart of a Dog

M. Bulgakov

A famous Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary of a dead man. But the experiment goes disastrously wrong and the...

The Rose Revived

The Return

A. Platonov

In Russia Platonov is increasingly considered the best writer of the post-revolutionary epoch yet he has not so far enjoyed the international reputation that he deserves. To a large extent, this is because he fell...

The Rings Of Saturn

They Came Like Swallows

Time Will Darken It

Underground

Murakami

In spite of the perpetrators` intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. The novelist Haruki Murakami interviews the victims to...

Vertigo

White Guard

M. Bulgakov

The setting is Kiev in 1918, a time of revolution, turmoil and civil war. The Germans have occupied the city, Petlyura`s Socialists are camped outside awaiting their moment, while the Bolsheviks watch, contemplating...

Wild Sheep Chase

Murakami

His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a...

Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Murakami

Toru Okada`s cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling...

Woman and the Ape

Madelene is married to Burden, an ambitious zoologist, comfortably off and a chronic alcoholic. The ape is Erasmus, who comes ashore in London from sailing boat called The Ark. Burden aims to use the ape as the means...