Binocular Vision: A Book of the Year

Sunday Times Fiction Book of the Year:

“A dazzling revelation… the stories in this collection winningly exhibit her impressive breadth of subject matter… Rich in social detail, the stories are alive with psychological and emotional subtlety. Long delayed, their arrival here is a cause for celebration” Peter Kemp

A Sunday Telegraph Fiction Book of the Year:

“The literary discovery of 2013… lucid, witty, devastating… a masterclass on how to deliver literature’s bittersweet blow in simply a few pages” Catherine Taylor (Click here for the full article.)

An Independent Fiction Book of the Year:

“An eye-opening compendium radiant with wisdom, humour, mischief and – not least – a sense of the tragic history behind individual lives” Boyd Tonkin (Click here for the full article.)

A Financial Times Book of the Year:

“Delicate, funny, perceptive tales of suburban dysfunction, exile and family life. A book to dip into or devour; either way, it’s a charmer with bite” (Click here for the full article.)

And finally, but not least, Binocular Vision has been shortlisted for the 2014 Jewish Quarterly–Wingate Prize. The winner will be announced at a ceremony during Jewish Book Week at Kings Place on Wednesday, 26th February 2014.

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OUT NOW: New Paperback Edition of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

‘A tantalising mystery … a mesmerising work of literature’ Antony Beevor

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OUT NOW: The Rabbit Back Literature Society

"Unnerving, enigmatic… Hints of Let the Right One In and Haruki Murakami’s elliptical early science fiction novels flavour a creepy tale about mutating books, buried secrets and ghostly encounters" James Lovegrove, Financial TImes

Welcome to Rabbit Back, a town like no other.

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A Chess Story

'Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game.' Economist

Stefan Zweig’s Schachnovelle is one of his best-loved works of short fiction. So we’re very excited that this month we’re publishing a brilliant new translation, A Chess Story, from the translator, author and journalist Alexander Starritt. (more…)

Ignat Avsey

We are extremely sorry to announce that Ignat Avsey, translator, lecturer and critic, passed away last night following a battle with cancer. Specializing in translations mostly from Russian, but also from German, he is best known for his acclaimed translations of Dostoyevsky – including The Karamazov Brothers for Oxford World’s Classics, The Village of Stepanchikovo for Angel Books and Penguin Classics and The Idiot and Humiliated and Insulted for Alma Classics. He recently also translated the Austrian author Alexander Lernet-Holenia’s incomparable 1933 Viennese noir thriller I Was Jack Mortimer for Pushkin Press. Ignat was an influential and passionate translator, and did so very much to bring wonderful writing from other languages to the attention of readers in English.