Join us as we discuss six recent international novels that have made a big impact despite their slim length. In settings that span the globe, we will examine how these diverse writers have managed to weave magic in a mere 200 pages or less: Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel depicts an eccentric houseboat community living along the Thames as they float between loneliness and connection. The Sense of an Ending from Julian Barnes follows a middle-aged man as he confronts a forgotten past. In the Café of Lost Youth, Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick Modiano, explores memory and forgetting in the shadowy world of a 1950's Paris café. The Vegetarian from South Korean Han Kang is a poetic and haunting story of one woman’s struggle to break free from violence. Orbital, Samantha Harvey's 2024 Booker prize-winning novel takes us aboard the International Space Station where six astronauts navigate bereavement, loneliness and spiritual fatigue.