Hugo in Three Months: French

Ronald Overy

Parlez vous Francais? This text aims to get you doing just that - in only three months. A structured week-by-week approach should build your vocabulary and perfect your grammar so you can feel confident understanding and speaking the language, whether ordering frogs legs in a rustic cafe in Montmartre o...

Fever and Spear (Your Face Tomorrow, Vol 1)

Javier Marías

Translated by Margaret Jull Costa 'I am myself my own fever and pain' Jacques Deza has been told he has a gift- he can see through people; guess just from their faces what will become of them. When he encounters the enigmatic Bertram Tupra at a party, Deza is persuaded to join a mysterious underground g...

On Java Road

Lawrence Osborne

A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author of The ForgivenAfter twenty years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong Kong, Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to sh...