A story full of wonderful characters’ ‘It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach’s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always...

The Eternal One At our human limits, when we’ve gone as for as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One. The Crow. His alabaster delicate features tell of his ivory goddess ancestry. Immemorially old, and...

Vika Andreyev can summon the snow and turn ash into gold.Nikolai Karimov can see through walls and conjure bridges out of thin air.They are enchanters the only two in Russia and with the Ottoman Empire and the Kazakhs threatening,...

In the beginning, Victoria wanted to be King. Following an uncomfortable discussion with her parents about the birds and the bees, Victoria decided that she wanted to be Queen. And so began the sociopathic journey toward the British throne...

In 1939, adventurer and writer Ella Maillart set off on an epic drive from Geneva to Kabul, accompanied by journalist and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who later became an antifascist and lesbian icon. The two women travelled partly to escape...

‘In the beginning, my journeys feel at best ludicrous, at worst insane. This one is no exception.’ Kira Salak recently became the first person to successfully canoe 600 miles down the River Niger from Old Ségou to Timbuktu –...

It’s Easter, and on a glorious spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. They plan to raise the dead… When C. I. Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec arrives the next morning, he faces...

It is set in Newcastle in 1996 and follows a young Anglican clergyman who returns to his native North East to plant a new church in a deprived area and the interesting characters he meets in the process. As...

“Exquisitely woven.”–Leila Aboulela Timely and lyrical, The Cry of the Dove is the story of one young woman and an evocative portrait of forbidden love and violated honor in a culture whose reverberations are felt profoundly in our world...

This “extraordinary story” (Julian Symons) begins with an act of naive voy­eurism. Robert Forester, a depressed but fundamentally decent man, liked to watch Jenny through her kitchen window, a harmless palliative, as he saw it, to his lonely life...