In 1992, Savo Heleta was a young Serbian boy enjoying an idyllic, peaceful childhood in Gorazde, a primarily Muslim city in Bosnia. At the age of just thirteen, Savo’s life was turned upside down as war broke out. When...

This is a short book, in fact a novella and the subject is the murder of an asylum seeker. DC Tina Barraclough investigates and as she already works with asylum seekers, she feels that she has sense of the...

In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and...

North Korea is Orwell’s 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet: Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book: during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your...

Notwithstanding is a fictional village somewhere in Surrey, England around the Haslemere and Godalming area. Endless humour with a real heart, it celebrates the mundane, the ordinariness and the quirkiness of english life in a beautiful village.

For the Oliviera family – mum Carol, daughters Angel and Marie – autumn 2009 in the once-prosperous beach town of Ashaway, Rhode Island is the worst of times. Money is tight, Carol can’t stay away from unsuitable men, Angel’s...

2008: Deep in the mountain forests, Julian Cooke stumbles across the rotting remains of a wooden wagon. He’s discovered what’s left of the Preston Group, a convoy of settlers that vanished in the winter of 1856. It’s clear that...

Of Human Bondage is absoulute Somerset Maugham. The book is set in the last decades of the nineteenth century and, part autobiographical, it is about a young orphan, his apprenticeship in art, then medicine as well as the theme...

On the eve of his bar mitzvah, Jacob’s mother leaves his father for another man – a goy. It’s 1987 and while family relations are breaking down, the first intifada is breaking out in Israel and the local Jewish...