Where do you go to when you only have a pittance for a home away from home for a huge family? Ian Ross realises that his small inheritance won’t get him a place in France or even Spain, so...

In a large Swedish forest, Beartown hides a dark secret . . . Cut-off from everywhere else, it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart. And each year, more and more of the town is swallowed by...

Suicide, or murder? Newly arrived in Papua, where even the luscious vegetation conspires with the bureaucrats to confuse her, Stella Warwick is determined to prove her husband did not take his own life. Defying the patronising concern of officials, she...

It is 1887, and an unsettled London is preparing for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful, bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year she plans to make her own mark on the...

When a mother and her infant are murdered on the outskirts of Cité Soleil, Haiti’s most infamous slum, two unexpected detectives emerge: Libète, a brash and headstrong girl of ten, and her brilliant but impoverished friend Jak. Though made...

Rose Tascher is brought up in Martinique. At 15, she is married off to a Parisian aristocrat, who cannot stand her or her provincial ways. She divorces him, the French Revolution comes and her place, as Josephine, consort to...

Meg was born at the start of the Great Depression. Surrounded by poverty and unemployment she grew up in the gritty reality of a butcher’s shop in a pit village in the North East of England. The youngest child,...

Bedouin is a unique and beautiful portrait of the Arab nomad’s life, rich in colour and culture. It uncovers the mystery that surrounds an ancient tribe and their struggle to survive in hostile conditions, barren lands and the threat...

This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimer’s countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power. A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband’s cello:...

She opens her eyes and focuses on the room around her. Everything is in place, yet something isn’t right. She walks towards her daughter’s room, calling her name, as she does every morning. But this morning is different. This...