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‘An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny.’—Sunday Telegraph ‘Time, love, age, memory, death, chaos, passion and the spirit of place: this capacious novel wraps its arms effortlessly around all the great themes while entertaining us with a funny and wistful love story ... More

Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature ‘Perhaps the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the Don Quixote of Cervantes.’ —Pablo Neruda ‘An extraordinary novel, a work of obsessional originality...García Márquez’s hypnotic history of his Buendías fam... More

'García Márquez has composed a tour de force of moral and emotional complexity, with a low profile, without fireworks'—Angela Carter in the Guardian 'A mesmerizing work...the novel sets out to reconstruct a murder that occurred twenty-seven years before...Márquez's chronicle moves backward... More

‘Full of premonitions and echoes of the larger fiction. Marquez has always been a romantic, and these stories abound with love affairs, ruined beauty, and magical women. It is essence of Marquez’ —Guardian ‘Starting with “The Third Resignation” and finishing with “The Incredible and... More

A brutal classic of life lived on 'the dangerous edge of things' A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to aven... More

The twelve stories in this new collection by the Nobel prize winner chronicle the surreal, haunting ‘journeys’ of Latin Americans in Europe. Linked by themes of displacement and exile, these vivid, magical stories of love, loneliness, death and the memories of past life conjure images of beauty ... More

‘A lyrical description of an old man at the dusk of his life.... The General in His Labyrinth...is also a portrait of Simon Bolivar, the extraordinary general who pushed the Spanish out of South America and whose dream of independence made him a hero in five countries...the mixture is rich....Sen... More

Everyone would kill for their fifteen minutes of fame… A Premiership footballer is shot dead in cold blood on a busy London street, and a country is gripped by terror. Who is behind this apparently motiveless killing – and who's next in the firing line? Jack Garrett is determined to find out.... More

‘Full of premonitions and echoes of the larger fiction. Marquez has always been a romantic, and these stories abound with love affairs, ruined beauty, and magical women. It is essence of Marquez’ —Guardian ‘Starting with “The Third Resignation” and finishing with “The Incredible and... More

CENTENARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH'A great writer who spoke brilliantly to a whole generation. Prophet-like' Alec Guinness Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his n... More

‘Majestic...mystic, surrealistic—a stunning portrait of a monstrous tyrant.’ —The New York Times ‘Set in an unspecified Caribbean country, dominated by a dictator who has just died after a reign of over 200 years...the book is essentially concerned with deception and illusion...like it... More

Presents the Spanish text and English translation of Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias as well as poems selected from works including Romancero Gitano, Canciones, and Poeta en Nueva York... More

Blood-sucking vampires, serial killers, ghosts and ghouls, monsters and freaks -- horror provides us with a way of imagining and classifying our world. Through 29 essays, The Horror Reader explores the questions of what is evil and what is good; what is monstrous and what is "normal"; what can be se... More