A NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLERA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEA vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna."How I loved this book! Filled with truth after truth, poignantly rendered and given to us with tender open-handedness."—Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive KitteridgeSummer 1966. Robert Simon is in his early ...

From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music hall dancer Anezka, ...

An intimate portrait of genius, love, and betrayal at the end of Gustav Mahler’s life.New York, 1911. Gustav Mahler’s recent tenure conducting the New York Philharmonic has been an extraordinary success and a time of feverish artistic defiance. He is arguably the most celebrated musician alive. In America, however, his compositions have turned more inward-looking, for he knows, or suspects, that death is near.This slim, swift “triumph” of a novel finds him ...

From Robert Seethaler, the International Booker Prize finalist for A Whole Life and bestselling author of The Tobacconist, comes a tale of life and death and human connection, told through the voices of those who have passed on.The Field is the oldest part of the cemetery in Paulstadt, where some of the small town’s most outspoken residents can be found. From their graves, they tell stories. Some recall just a moment — perhaps the one in which the...

A NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLERA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEA vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna.“How I loved this book! Filled with truth after truth, poignantly rendered and given to us with tender open-handedness.”—Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive KitteridgeSummer 1966. Robert Simon is in his early ...

From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music hall dancer Anezka, ...

An intimate portrait of genius, love, and betrayal at the end of Gustav Mahler’s life.New York, 1911. Gustav Mahler’s recent tenure conducting the New York Philharmonic has been an extraordinary success and a time of feverish artistic defiance. He is arguably the most celebrated musician alive. In America, however, his compositions have turned more inward-looking, for he knows, or suspects, that death is near.This slim, swift “triumph” of a novel finds him ...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF O BROTHERIn a busy maternity ward, first-time father Dan meets Jada, a dad welcoming his fifth – no, sixth? – child into the world. Dan and Jada come from very different places: both called Glasgow. Dan is a successful TV writer with a townhouse in the West End and a shiny Tesla ready to drive his wife and baby home. Jada is a hustling, small-time criminal who is already planning how to separate Dan from...

1854, Edinburgh.Respectable faces hide private sins.Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven’s emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change. Sarah needs no instruction in the inequalities that beset her gender, but even she has her eyes opened to a darker reality when a relative seeks her help in searching for her missing daughter. Annabel Banks was pr...

“Full of heart and blood, this impressive, wildly imaginative collection heralds the arrival of a compelling new voice in speculative fiction.” —Gabino Iglesias, The New York Times“This is weird girl fiction at its finest.” —Lucy Rose“Compassionate, gross, deeply compelling. A must-read.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Striking, visceral, and brutally honest, Rose Keating’s Od...

Gerard is 12. He hates his name, but loves flying round the streets of Glasgow on his bike, or mucking about with his gang, the Broncos. He’s a bright kid, but trouble seems to follow him. No one really knows what it’s like at home for Gerard; he’s used to carrying a lot on his small shoulders. Gerard doesn’t always make good decisions. And on one April morning, in the blink of an eye, he makes a very bad one – one that will upend his whole world. Now, he faces a bewildering stream of conc...

We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps find them . . .Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives,” offering a service that goes beyond cooking mouth-watering meals. Through their culinary sleuthing, they revive lost recipes and rekindle forgotten memories.From the Olympi...