"A magnificent novel . . . Very possibly the most important work of fiction that American letters has produced since the works of the major writers of the 1960s." Miguel Garcia-Posada, El Pais

A major work of contemporary literature from Cuba that was awarded the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger 2000 in France.

La Isla is a secluded, run-down estate near Havana that has known better days. It is home to an eccentric but totally compelling array of characters, among them a Barefoot Contessa; a former opera singer, Casta Diva, and her mute husband; "Professor" Kingston, an elderly English teacher from Jamaica; Uncle Rolo, a gay bookseller; a sculptor, whose abysmal reproductions of classical busts adorn La Isla; and a mysterious Wounded Boy whose bleeding wounds resemble those of St Sebastian.. Their lives and, more pressingly, their futures are at the heart of this exuberant tour de force of imaginative writing, set in the months immediately prior to Fidel Castro's revolution.

"A hugely ambitious effusion of magical realist mythmaking." Jon Garrick, New York Times
"A great and unforgettable novel." Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Mundo

The stunning bestseller is reissued in a film tie-in edition to coincide with the release of The Crimson Rivers, Matthieu Kassovitz's brilliant film of the book Blood-red Rivers.

A horrifically mutilated corpse is discovered wedged in an isolated crevice. The highly-regarded but unpredictable ex-commando Pierre Niemans is sentfrom Paris to the French Alps to investigate. Meanwhile, Karim Abdouf, a young Arab policeman, is trying to find out why the tomb of a young child has been desecrated. When a second body is found, high up in a glacier, the paths of the two policemen are joined in their search for the killers, a trail that embroils them with the mysterious cult of the Crimson Rivers.

"Absolutely riveting .. . packed with tense, violent action" Peter Millar, The Times
"Grange has turned out a rip-roaring shocker that begins smashingly and skirts the spooky supernatural amid graveyards, ruins, wild landscapes and nightscapesfor300pages" Eugen Weber, LosAngelesTimes

Translated from the Spanish by Patrick Camiller With a Foreword by Alberto Granado and an Introduction by Richard Gott

In July 1953, recently graduated as a doctor at the University of Buenos Aires, Che Guevara decided to explore in a second journey the Latin American continent. His principal interests were in archaeology and politics, and his first stop was Bolivia, which had recently experienced a far- reaching revolution, and where he had the opportunity to study the Inca remains at Tiahuanaco and elsewhere. He moved on to Peru, visiting Cuzco, Macchu Picchu and Lima, and along the spine of the Andes to Guayaquil in Ecuador before sailing up the coast to Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala, where he was caught up in the CIA overthrow of the Arbenz government, and later Mexico, where he was to meet Fidel Castro for the first time.
The young Guevara kept a spasmodic diary in which he recorded his impressions of his twoyear journey. It was an expedition which thousands of backpackers accomplish today, and thousands more dream about.

Ernesto `Che' Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928. Disillusioned with the right-wing government of Juan Peron, he left home, and, in 1959, he helped Fidel Castro overthrow the Cuban dictator Batista, later becoming a key figure in the revolutionary movements of the 1960s. He was killed in Bolivia in 1967. Harvill published The African Dream in 2000.

'One of the best comic novels of the century, with Sam Yudenow as superb a creation (almost) as Falstaff' Anthony Burgess

In the darkest furthest corner of London is Fowlers End, a bustling, squalid, ramshackle community built on deceit and despair To this wildly debased neighbourhood comes Daniel Laverock, a strong, proud, awesomely ugly young man in search of employment. Thanks to his horrifying countenance, which conceals the softest of hearts, he wins a job as manager of a movie house. It is a flea bag, a vile retreat for predatory children, a place where thugs relax between felonies. Its owner, Sam Yudenow, is a sort of philosopher. At first Laverock is dazzled by Sam, by his splendidly garbled speech, his flawless depravity, his complete emancipation from decent instincts. But not for long. Soon he is leading a group seeking to over throw the vicious tyrant. Fowler's End is a black comic masterpiece filled with exuberant language and outrageous characters.

'For those who can take it, the book provides the grisly fascination which clings to any dissection of rottenness' Time Magazine

Translated from the Swedish by Steven T Murray

"It is not hard to see why the Wallander books have made a particular impact. They are tightly plotted, but even more importantly, as in most good crime fiction, the character of the detective and the atmosphere surrounding the action are what give that extra edge to the performance" Hugh Macpherson, Times Literary Supplement

Four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are found dead in an Algerian convent, their throats slashed. In faraway Sweden, a shadowy figure prepares to exact a serial and cruel vengeance for these brutal crimes. Inspector Kurt Wallander is back from an idyllic holiday in Rome with his father, hoping for a peaceful autumn. But when he investigates the disappearance of an old man, he discovers a grisly murder. Soon another missing person is reported. Once again Wallander's life is on hold, as he seeks to find a link between a series of apparently random crimes, uncovering clues not by revelation, but by dogged police work. TheFifth Woman is the third Kurt Wallander mystery to be published by the Harvill Press.

"Mankell is a real find" Marcel Berlins, The Times
"A deeply satisfying density of plot and characterization" Baltimore Sun

Translated from the French by Ian Monk

"Pace, construction, sense of locale and wit all serve to keep the works firmly to hand until finished and in mind once you've done so" Omer Ali, Time Out

The Malaussène family regret to announce the marriage of Thérèse Malaussène to Count Marie-Colbert de Roberval ...
The wedding took place in front of the television cameras before the happy couple flew off to Zurich for their wedding night. Two days later, however, a frosty and tight-lipped Thérèse was back in Belleville, and her spouse, also back in Paris, was found dead at the foot of his stairwell, and a bag full of dollars had gone walkabout. Added to which, Thérèse's fairground caravan, in which she had practiced her trade of astrologer, had been torched, the work of a homicidal arsonist.
Benjamin Malaussène, elder brother to the widow and a professional scapegoat, has packed his bags and is waiting for the police to pull him in on suspicion - but it is Thérèse whom they arrest. The tribe and their Apache friends slip smartly into gear to scour Paris in search of bona fide culprits and get their beloved sister out of gaol.

"Once more Pennac has evoked the melodramatic world of heroes and villains that entertained our forbears in their favourite serials, those lurid penny- dreadfuls" Philippe-Jean Catinchi, Le Monde