China: 1200 A.D.

Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his sweetheart Lotus' father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested...

Haya's reflection on her Catholicized Jewish family's experiences deals unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the...

A lonely librarian opens her heart...

One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight.

She begins...

World War One pilots were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised them as gallant young heroes.

At just...

A small town in outback Australia wakes to an appalling crime.

A local schoolteacher is found taped to a tree and stoned to...

Jean Garnier lives on the fringes - a lonely nobody who has lost everything dear to him. His girlfriend was killed in an...

The Cheffe is born into an impoverished family in Sainte-Bazeille in south-western France, but when she takes a job working in...

In this extraordinary final work, Dasa Drndic's combative, probing voice reaches new heights. In her relentless search for truth...

The Reindeer Hunters is the second in a thrilling historical trilogy that began with The Bell in the Lake.

The year is 1903,...

Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war's first months, it tracks a Red Army regiment that wins a minor victory in eastern...

For reasons that will eventually become clear, Paul Hansen is in prison. He's been in prison for a couple of years now, sharing...

Once upon a time there was a boy whose mother called him "Wolf"

She thought this name would bring him strength, luck, natural...

A renowned photographer probes a traumatic incident in the life of a fellow guest at a countryside ranch. A chance meeting at a...

Paris, 1900. Aileen Bowman arrives at the Exposition Universelle, where all the world has gathered to witness the birth of...

Following the conventions of a different genre, each of the pieces in Schalansky's Inventory considers something that is...

In the early years of the last century, Rebecca is born into a rural community in the Maesglasau valley in Wales; her family have...

Behind the ornate doors of 30, rue du Metal in Brussels, twenty students begin their apprenticeship in the art of decorative...

"Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger"

Sometimes a distance from the world's tumult opens our hearts and our...

A second blistering crime novel set in France's most notorious suburb, by a police officer turned million-copy bestseller and key...

In February 1959, several Icelandic trawlers were caught in a storm off Newfoundland's Grand Banks. What happened there is the...

Of all her novels, Magda Szabo's Abigail is indeed the most widely read in her native Hungary. Now, fifty years after it was...

In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is played...

The townsfolk of Motal, an isolated, godforsaken town in the Pale of Settlement, are shocked when Fanny Keismann - devoted wife,...

Yukon, Canada's far north. A young man tracks a wolf through the wilderness.
The one his grandfather warned him about.

In...

Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis...

The village of Shimae is thrown into turmoil when master carp-catcher Katsuro suddenly drowns in the murky waters of the Kusagawa...

It takes the form of personal and formal investigations into two political assassinations - the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in...

With Nothing Else to Lose

Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a...

The Novelist Kills by the Book

For Commandant Camille Verhoeven life is beautiful. He is happily married and soon to become a...

Parma is blanketed in snow, but this pristine, white veneer cannot mask the stench of corruption. Its officials are no longer...