Tata begins with a mystery―Agnès receives a phone call from a local policeman saying she must come to Gueugnon in the French provinces to identify the body of her aunt Colette. This comes as a shock because, as far as...

In Tatiana, Smith delivers his most ambitious and politically daring novel since. When the brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow in the same week that notorious mob billionaire...

Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Runner up of the Luke Bitmead Bursary Maia is leaving London to paint in the bright sunlight and exotic setting of Morocco. Working as an assistant to a once famous Historian, she is...

National Magazine Award finalist Christopher Howard’s debut novel, Tea of Ulaanbaatar, tells the story of disaffected Peace Corps volunteer Warren, who flees life in late-capitalist America to find himself stationed in the post-Soviet industrial hell of urban Mongolia. As...

The book recounts Jeff Probst’s time teaching English at an East London comprehensive school, where he worked with students who were often non-academic and struggling to engage with traditional curricula. Through his experiences, Probst highlights the frustrations and occasional...

A tale of piety, greed, debauchery and equanimity in a remote Asian kingdom. It’s 1875 and Chiang Mai, capital of Lanna, is a cultural crossroads of Buddhist monks and Christian missionaries, of spirit doctors and opium smokers, of seductive...

As a girl, Jazz Barthelot knew that a gecko falling on your right side foretold a sudden death. But what place do aunties’ tales have in the rapidly modernising island of Ceylon, and how to navigate the shifting sands...

Kashmir has long seen years of strife and turmoil, and Wali Mohammad Khan has been a silent witness to it all.The violence that terrorism unleashed in the valley was every bit as senseless as the men who propagated it...

Like the single white eyelash that graces her row of dark lashes–seen by her people as a mark of good fortune–Halima Bashir’s story stands out. Tears of the Desert is the first memoir ever written by a woman caught...