In the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison works as a top safari guide in the Okavango Delta, an oasis of wetland in...

In DOUBLE BLACK, Boston’s twenty-something Stacey Curtis ditches her cheating fiancé and heads for a Vermont ski town. She’s looking for the life she’s always dreamed about, but she stumbles instead into financial intrigue, bitter family warfare, and murder....

You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.’ George Orwell’s vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris...

Kree Garrett’s younger brother Seth is all the family she has left, so when he goes missing in the Australian outback, she doesn’t think twice about leaving her American home to find him. When Seth is rescued Kree vows...

Downriver is constructed as twelve interlocking narratives, in which Iain Sinclair traces the ruins of Margaret Thatcher’s reign through the lens of a fictional film crew that has been hired to make a documentary about what’s left of London’s...

Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban revolution. It is the family story of Celia del Pino, and her husband, daughter and grandchildren, from the mid-1930s to 1980....

Edvard Christiansen was only fifteen when he joined the Norwegian resistance. He took part in the Shetland Bus operation that helped people escape the Nazi occupation of Norway. Traumatised by his experiences, Edvard moved to Shetland after the war,...

Originally published in 1997, Drown instantly garnered terrific acclaim. Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, these heartbreaking, completely original stories established Díaz as one of contemporary fiction’s most exhilarating...

Drumbeats is the first novel in a trilogy. It is 1965 and the air is light with the idea of freedom, love and the Beatles, but eighteen year old Jess is feeling stifled by her puritanical religious family background...