A young refugee washes up unconscious on the beach of a small island inhabited by no one but Samuel, an old lighthouse keeper. Unsettled, Samuel is soon swept up in memories of his former life... Læs mere
The summer of 2006, and nineteen-year-old Layla returns to Lebanon. When she arrives she finds that her troubled younger brother is missing. She heads to Beirut to search for him, but her... Læs mere
A unique and beautiful book, profusely illustrated, A Certain Slant of Light was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Prize. Duncan White's moving novel reverberates with unspoken... Læs mere
A vision, a peculiar international movement flooding the city, an Empress, and a strange artefact called the Chimaera… Petty Veniz will never be the same again, for it seems the Apocalypse is at hand.
Part memoir, part biography, part book about creative writing and what really makes a novel, and also a brave book about failure, This Is Not A Book About Charles Darwin is unique and compelling.
A haunting ode to those who paid the ultimate price-through the prism of the Maoist insurgency, Ashutosh Bhardwaj meditates on larger questions of violence and betrayal, love and obsession, and what it means to live with and write about death.
A book-length interview with the Mother of God. No questions, just answers. Mariamne is an old Jewish peasant woman from Galilee. She is visited by a young Greek man who came to see her... Læs mere
Without the horse, India would not be this India ... The history of the horse in India is an epic tale of life and war, of migration and intermingling, and points towards a greater history throughout the world, the history of humans and animals in symbiosis.
When Stephen Bloodsmith creates a series of images inspired by Rubens' trip to 1629 London, he is finds in a world of suspicion and intrigue. When he practises deception in his own marriage, falling... Læs mere
It’s 1997, three years after the end of Apartheid. Two girls, Leilah, who is mixed race, and Frankie, who is white, are drawn together when they start at a new school, one that remains... Læs mere
SAND ROSES is a tale of resistance, sisterhood and the shameful past of two colliding nations. This extraordinarily immersive narrative thrusts its reader into the Algerian city of Bousaada during the 1930s and the story of the Nailiya dancers.
A series of poems about growing up queer inPoland in the 1980s. Deliverance has a narrative angle and exploresthemes of gender identity, LGBTQ rights, coming out, homophobia, women's rightsetc, at the same time being mainly based on the author's family/societalhistory/background.