Dense Green forests in Yala, white-sand coasts in Trincomalee, azure waters off the South Coast, Anuradhapura’s ancient temples, and cricket. Civil war, political assassinations, internally displaced communities, industrial-scale corruption. All are Sri Lanka. As are smug bureaucrats, nosy neighbours,...

Any moment now, we would grow up, and we would become them, waking late and hungry and with a job that had no name On a desolate, sinking island, a group of children witness their mothers living lives of...

Alan Querry, a successful property developer from the north of England, has two daughters: Vanessa, a philosopher who lives and teaches in Saratoga Springs, NY, and Helen, a record company executive based in London. The sisters never quite recovered...

Urnabhih: A Mauryan Tale of Espionage, Adventure and Seduction Misrakesi comes to the newly-formed Mauryan court with a mission-to avenge the death of her sister. However, an encounter with Chanakya, the man she had planned to kill, sets her...

In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft–the only sound is an astonished tiny intake of breath from Ursula as she...

After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow when they hear that their beloved local hockey team will soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all...

Friends forever is a difficult promise to keep… Meet Lana, Judith and Catrin. Best friends since primary school when they swore an oath on a Curly Wurly wrapper that they would always be there for each other, come what...

The imaginative and award-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell returns to spin a web of music and money as a psychedelic British band in the ‘60s finds fame and fallout among such legends as...

We are re-introduced to Hoofsinspecteur Caes Heda, widower and leader of a group of six police officers based at Kroonstraat Police Station in the fine old student town of Utrecht. The novel opens with two of his officers being...

Utrecht police inspector Caes Heda leads a team looking into the disappearance of young women. Meanwhile his daughter, Truus, bored with University takes up a job with disgraced former police office Thijs Orman at his Private Detective Agency and...