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It’s the fall of 1979 when 23-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria,...

It is 1988 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon,...

The City of Silk is seething. The corrupt government has been ruling over the people too long and the city is becoming restless....

From the author of modern classic The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good novel about hope, love and the powerful bond...

This is the story of loss - and what happens afterwards…

When Emma gets home after work one evening, she calls hello to her...

Anyone can be extraordinary. But it comes at a price…

Neil Narayan's parents moved to America for a better life, and his...

If the mermaid doesn't swim back to the sea, but instead goes ashore, she will learn to walk on two legs. Perhaps, she will even...

What can I do?' she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then again, who was I to speak of such...

We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously. Bunny.

Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in...

Morag Gunn is a writer in her mid-forties who lives in a riverside farm in East Ontario. Her eighteen-year-old daughter is...

'It was the day the clocks went back. That's when I decided to kill him.'

Humorous and heartbreaking debut novel with the...

Three very different women are desperate for their lives to change. Though strangers, they are drawn to the same place:...

Jumaa is a schoolteacher in Aleppo. He observes and lives through the literal disintegration of his beautiful native city....

Three estranged sisters. Six months to come back together.

When Georgie, Iris and Nola's mother died, the sisters made a pact:...

When Elizabeth's husband dies, leaving her with crippling debt, the only person she can turn to is her friend, Jo. Soon Jo has...

Molly Black has disappeared. She's been running away since her parents died.

But this time, or so says her note, she's gone...

Alan Noland discovers his father's memoirs and learns the truth about the violent man he despised.

In this unsparing family...

For one woman, a cross-country train ride becomes a parallel journey into the dark psyche of American manhood. An old man and his...

Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca,...

On a boat offshore, a fisherman guts a mackerel as he anxiously awaits a midnight rendezvous.

Villagers, one by one, disappear...

'I have a first-day rule. Any sign of trouble, even a whiff of a problem, and I walk.'

Noelle is an efficient and friendly...

Meet Matthew, Rez, Cocker and Kearney. Facing the void of their post-school lives, the boys spend their first summer of freedom...

In these ten stories, Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West - and from the guarded hopes...

A sparkling comedy of rural life, high and low

After one year of being 'buffered from single-motherhood' by her boyfriend,...

A reissue of the powerful and troubling debut sensation - which spent over six months at top of the New York Times bestseller...

Big Ray's obesity and his mean temper define him, at least to his family. When Big Ray dies, his son Daniel puts his feelings...

As Colombia's famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through downtown Bogota before a public celebration of his...

The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in...

Marie owes Michka more than she can say - but Michka is getting older, and can't look after herself any more. So Marie has moved...

Hilariously touching and outrageously unforgettable: Mark Haddon's Christopher Boone meets Holden Caulfield on one *#@! of a...