This is the story of a native Indonesian schoolboy, Minke, who is among the first Indonesians to attend a Dutch school. There are many storylines in this novel: Minke has to struggle for acceptance as a native Indonesian; then there...

Ranging from the wicked noir Shanghai of 1946, to the echo chambers of Hollywood, to remote, snow-covered mountains, This Is How it Really Sounds follows three men, each in search of a different life. Small-town Alaskan “Harry” Harrington is...

Junot Diaz’s new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love – passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love – told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as they struggle...

Dan Rhodes’s new novel opens with a determined art student, Aurélie Renard, throwing a stone in a crowded Paris neighbourhood in a bid to kick-start her next creative project. She had been planning to produce a straightforward series of...

The drinks are flowing. The music is playing. But the party can’t last. With the Blitz over and London reeling from war, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for help. Fresh off the Empire Windrush, he’s taken...

Miss Maple is a sheep. She leads her flock in investigating the murder of their shepherd, Geroge. Enterttaining and well written,a great cast of characters, this is a different take on crime writing.

‘Here we drink three cups of tea to do business: the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything...

The author has been mentioned as possibly the foremost Filipino writer, of Nobel consideration, and this book is a good indication why. This book was well written, consisting of three short novellas, each of a strong woman in decidedly different...

3 girls, 3 guys, and 3 unforgettable nights in trendy downtown New York! Eve doesn’t believe in knights in shining armour. As director of Just for Coffee dating agency she reckons you need the correct profile and bank balance...

This novel is a more modern, sexier, funnier, Cuban Ulysses. Centring on the recollections of a man separated from both is country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates an enchanting vision of life and the many colourful characters found...