When Charles Saint-Beuve, a French literary journalist met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer who intended to become famous, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But it is not...

A serial killer keeping the past’s darkest secret hidden. A centuries-old conspiracy is about to explode into the present with devastating consequences. The first victim was forced to swallow stones. The second was whipped to death. The third was...

This is the story of people who pick over the rubbish in a waste dump, Stung Meanchey, just outside Phnom Penh – they make their homes from rubbish, they pick up their cooking implements and pots from the dump,...

Fitzrovia, Soho in London, 1930s. Meredith Kerr is spending another evening of inebriation with three men. Harry Bowden, billy boyle and Arthur Lawler all want her for themselves. But Meredith has forgotten how to understand what it is she...

Late on a Monday night editor Lucy Newroe answers the phone in the Capital Tribune newsroom. The caller is the notorious Scanner Lady – an anonymous tipster whose hobby is to phone the newspaper with tips from her police...

THIS THRILLER WAS FIRST LAUNCHED AS ‘THE DIVE’. THIS IS A REBRANDING OF THIS NOVEL Escape to paradise. Scuba diving instructor Cass leads her students out for their first dive off the beautiful coast of Koh Sang, Thailand’s world-famous...

This is a warning for all our guests at the wellness retreat. A woman’s body has been found at the bottom of the cliff beneath the yoga pavilion. We believe her death was a tragic accident, though DS Elin...

Sonia orders a cup of coffee in a little cafe and with the serendipitous event she finds herself learning about one family’s fight to survive the Civil War. An insightful exploration of the horros of the war. Creative dance...

The Return of the Caravels is a powerful indictment of Portuguese colonialism and another literary tour de force from the pen of Antonio Lobo Antunes, “the greatest living Portuguese writer” (Vogue). It is set in Lisbon as Portugal’s African...

Whilst Pepetela’s novel is set during the 1980s the novel begins 300 years earlier when a slave was beheaded for having relations with his master’s daughter. This novel is a scathing critique of the Angolan ruling elite and their...