The unnamed narrator of Jurgis Kuncinas’s Tula is our tour guide through the infamous poverty-stricken bohemian quarter of Vilnius known as Uzupis (literally, “beyond the river”), living his life on the fringes of society, including his journeys through various...

In 1630s’ Holland thousands of people, from the wealthiest merchants to the lowest street traders, were caught up in a frenzy of buying and selling. The object of the speculation was not oil or gold, but the tulip, a...

1907 – Rachel Isaacson, spirited, otherworldly and haunted, is born into a rigidly Old World Family in New York’s Lower East Side. Hungry for independence, Rachel enters a marriage of convenience with violent consequences. Across the Atlantic, storyteller, fiddler...

This is the second Danny Clay crime “caper” which takes the ex-Army engineer turned TV writer, and his Vietnamese sidekick Zan, to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) where a former army buddy has become embroiled in a property deal...

At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to...

In the heart of Trenton, N.J., a killer is out to make sure someone gets his just desserts. Larry Virgil skipped out on his latest court date after he was arrested for hijacking an eighteen-wheeler full of premium bourbon....

Twelve people on the move around planet Earth, twelve individual lives, each in turmoil, and each in some way touching the next. In this nuanced and deeply moving sequence, David Szalay’s diverse protagonists circumnavigate the world in twelve plane...

Starting with the basic question ‘what is this place?’, award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran guides us through her ‘beloved country’. In challenging the authoritarian AKP government – for which she lost her job as a journalist – Temelkuran...

Mary Settle offers us an intimate portrait of a Turkey rarely seen – a land where the cutting of a tree is a crime, where goats are sacrificed to launch state-of-the-art ships, and where whole towns emerge at dusk...

A headmistress is found strangled in an East London school, the victim of a ritualistic act of violence. Found at the scene is a single piece of card, upon which is written an ancient Buddhist precept: I SHALL ABSTAIN...