Telex from Cuba

Rachel Kushner

Fidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels. Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past. Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discov...

War

Roald Dahl, will.i.am and Brian David Johnson

From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories. In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl's time as a fighter pilot in the Second World War as well as seven other tales of conflict ...

The House on the Hill

Cesare Pavese

A devastating novel set in wartime Italy from the great twentieth-century writer, in a new translation by Tim ParksJune, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing industrial Turin; Fascist Italy seems to be on its knees. Corrado, a teacher, is staying in relative safety in the hills above the city. He has no at...