A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin’s murder. When Jay Reguero hears of his cousin Jun’s death, everything changes. Although years have passed since they...

Amos Tutuola’s tales, drawing on the Yoruba folk tradition and the unique rhythms and idiom of Nigerian English, combine the resonance of universal myth with airs on a range of human vagaries. The leading characters here, as signalled by...

Park Min-gyu has been celebrated and condemned for his attacks upon what he perceives as the humorlessness of contemporary Korean literature. Pavane for a Dead Princess is his attack upon the beauty-fetish that reigns over popular culture, detailing the...

On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take...

Meet the Sisterhood–seven very different women who found one another in their darkest days and formed an indelible friendship, strong enough to heal their pasts and bring laughter and joy back into their lives. In Myra Rutledge’s beautiful, Virginia...

Amateur sleuth Faye Chambers and her Spaniel, Alfie, have checked into a guesthouse in South Shields for a seaside break after a falling out with her husband. The following morning, a man is found dead by the elderly landlady....

It is 1938 in China, and the Japanese are advancing. A young mother, Meilin, is forced to flee her burning city with her four-year-old son, Renshu, and embark on an epic journey across China. For comfort, they turn to...

Nicola Briggs grew up in a beautiful Georgian house in Huddersfield, which she loved, but she didn’t realise how much until her parents sent her away to a prestigious boarding school at eleven. From then on, the idea of...

The long-awaited seventh title in Anna Nicholas’s humorous travel series about how to live the dream in a Mediterranean country. The author explores different local cultural themes in each title. Anna delves into the island’s authentic heartland, exploring nature...

Phil Truss is dying of cancer. The wealthy amateur climber wants to stand on the summit of K2 before he goes. To achieve his dream he hires one of the planet’s best alpinists to organize and lead a team....