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Collected here together for the first time, all the dazzling, funny and poignant stories from one of America's finest contemporary writers.

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Mark Rowlands explores the intimate relationship between running and thinking, especially thoughts about the meaning of life, in this brilliant follow-up to The Philosopher and the Wolf.

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Two of the best travelogues ever written about Africa, in one volume.

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A suspenseful and psychologically rich novel about the secrets that unravel when a couple find a diamond ring - with a finger attached - washed up on a beach.

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From the author of Addlands, and featuring illustrations by Jackie Morris, an immersive and evocative non-fictional journey through Wales and a revelatory meditation on the nation's past, present and future.

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The first book to examine the roots of our uncomfortable and often hostile attitudes towards disabled people, and to argue for greater official recognition of these crimes as hate crimes.

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From a young chef who suddenly lost her sense of smell, a fascinating personal exploration of this most nebulous of senses and the role it plays in how we eat, how we perceive the world, how we remember the past, and how we attract each other.

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A sculptor of the macabre. A sorcerer of wax. A criminal. A runaway. Zummo is exactly what the last great Medici ruler of Florence needs.

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Growing up in post-war Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous, athletic parents, the narrator invents a make-believe brother - more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realize that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor.

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From one of Europe's most acclaimed writers, Seven Years is a distinct, sobering, and unsettling novel about the impositions of happiness in the quest for love.

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A serious and seriously entertaining exploration of the dark and varied obsessions that the 'civilized West' has had with decapitated heads and skulls.

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Unpick glib aphorisms and root out cliche with the best-selling author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten.

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Four novellas that offer a tantalising glimpse of Sicilian life, from the 1848 revolution to the death of Stalin.

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A dazzling follow-up to the novel Faces in the Crowd, this collection of literary peregrinations around the margins of metropolitan life demonstrates Valeria Luiselli's equal virtuosity as a writer of non-fiction.

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A powerful, brave and uncompromising investigation into the global underground of sex trafficking, from one of the world's most tireless and influential campaigners against sexual exploitation.

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A teenage revolutionary's gripping, darkly comic account of life, love and fighting for freedom in Latin America in the 1980s.

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The Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old, reissued alongside Athill's extensive backlist.

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While the world looked the other way, Sri Lanka's Tamils, civilians and rebels alike, were systematically and pitilessly attacked by their own government for five relentless months. Survivors of the devastation tell their stories of sacrifice, cruelty and bravery.

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An astonishingly realised dystopian world from a master storyteller, first heard on BBC Radio 4.

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This is the story of Neal Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity as Ascherson weaves together a story of the deep past with the story of modern Scotland and its rebirth.

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A deeply moving love letter from an artist to his wife as they struggle with the loss of multiple pregnancies, exploring how powerful bonds transform as lovers become family.

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A book about a forest, which is like a forest. A story of tangled pathways and surprising encounters; magic and madness, litter and loss. A book about getting lost, and finding oneself.

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A daring, singular biography of one of the great forgotten thinkers of the 20th century - Gershom Scholem, the founder of modern Kabbalah.

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A revealing personal portrait of a little-known country perched on the Eastern edge of Europe captured by one of its most eloquent and engaging expats