Mordant satire on life in Lithuania during the corrupt and stultifying Brezhnev years. Gavelis's story of how a good and honest man, not inclined to challenge the regime,... Læs mere
Two plays: Shall Roger Casement Hang? is the encounter between the Irish radical Roger Casement and his interrogator, Reginald Hall at the time of the Easter Rising. Face... Læs mere
The Lost Art of Losing is a collection of thoughts, rants and aphorisms by award-winning novelist Gregory Norminton. By turns comic and despairing, jubilant and wry, they present, through fragments, a picture of the mind - and of troubling times.
A young woman, who speaks a Siberian minority language leaves the forest in 1916, is quickly swept up in the upheavals of Russian history. She spends her long life... Læs mere
Set in Latvia still under Tsarist rule just before the First World War, Gold is higly topical and describes untrammelled free markets not only push working people into greater poverty, but also... Læs mere
The Last Woman Born on the Island is an exploration of the past and the present, and a celebration of the landscapes, both physical and emotional, that make up our... Læs mere
Volume II of Tammsaare's monumental pentalogy portrays Indrek's education and his shift to the polyglot city from the countryside which was the... Læs mere
Perhaps now considered the greatest Italian novel (in place of Manzoni's The Betrothed), this masterpiece set in Sicily is not arguing for national unification, but appraising what... Læs mere
A community health professional takes the pulse of North West Glasgow, observesconnections and disconnections between city and citizen, examines how language,physical and social environments affect health. Told through a series of prosepoems.
Badlands is an ambitious and pacy thriller in the Buchan tradition. The author, now in her late eighties, has travelled the world and springs many surprises on her readers, using her deep... Læs mere
In this third volume of Tammsaare's monumental pentalogy, the protagonist Indrek finds himself alone in a working-class district of an industrial town during the revolutionary... Læs mere