Canelo: 557 books

The world has ended. What now? One Sunday, eight people gather at a school to record a television programme. But the show is never made, because the end of the world has arrived. The authorities order all windows, doors and curtains to be closed. And stay closed. They hear nothing more for days, then...

An uncompromising tale of obsession and the darker side of love First published in 1945, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart is considered a classic of autobiographical fiction. Set in America, it tells of the narrator’s obsessive affair with a married man and is based...

A bawdy boarding house comedy. Skipper shares his parents’ boarding house with their lodgers, lovely Janet the bijou beauty and Senior Franklin, the volcanic literary genius. Life is sweet until one night the lugubrious Mr Marvel seeks to shelter with them. Who is the mysterious fugitive...

Eleven families. Eleven suicides. What’s going on in Greenland? Amarâq, Eastern Greenland, the end of the world. A lonely, cold, hard place, yet one that’s filled with boundless joy and bewitching natural magic, Amarâq plays host to an annual tragedy: a spate of suicides races through the town...

In hopes of emulating his hero Thoreau’s Walden , a young man documents his life as he sets out from the family home to become a writer. In the Italian North End of Boston, where family, religion and food are of equal importance, he gets an apartment and a job working in a small grocery store....

Ribelle Soderini, Reb to his family and friends, works for his father’s construction company in North Boston. The Soderinis are famous for the quality of their work. They build fine houses. Reb toils hard all day and enjoys hearty food, a good drink and, if he can find it, the company of...

Full of dark comic invention, Vinegar Soup is a fantasy with a flavour all its own… an epic romance of true love, travel, and food Gilbert Firestone, fat and fifty, works in the kitchen of the Hercules Cafe and dreams of travel and adventure. When his wife drowns in a pan of soup, he abandons the...

‘A celebration of the simple freedoms of being human, and the everyday joys of small stories’ Asymptote Tabby isn’t an ordinary house-cat. Though he’s the most beautiful, captivating animal to grace the rooftops of Nanjing, Tabby is also prone to unpredictable outbursts of clawing and scratching,...

Phoenix Nights meets American Psycho Call him Elvis. The premier Elvis impersonator in the whole of the Cambridgeshire region. He’s overweight and bald and old. He is partial to cocaine, sells skunk to local teenagers and masturbates six or seven times a day. And he hates Elvis Presley. Things...

The short story collection the 21st century truly deserves They say it’s impossible to feel two extreme emotions at the same time. In the world of Erotic Nightmares, however, anything is possible. In ‘Pretty Boy Tigh’, a presenter on a pre-school kids’ TV channel finds himself an unlikely...

‘A godsend for German literature’ Ina Hartwig It’s Autumn in Stuttgart, just before Halloween, and thirty-something mothers Judith and Leonie are safely ensconced in their upmarket apartments in one of the city’s best neighborhoods. Judith has squeezed her life into the straitjacket of wholesome...