Nina Sovich had always yearned for adventures in faraway places: she imagined herself leading the life of a solitary traveler. Yet at the age of thirty-four, she found herself married and contemplating motherhood. Catching her reflection in a window...

Her troubled female protagonist in Tokyo is Grey, haunting the thronging streets of Tokyo in search of an elusive piece of film recording the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. But did the film ever exist? The past is a...

Charlie Davis, a modern-day heretic, ditches his past and rushes into a picaresque journey through the glistening nights of Tokyo and the desolate wilds of northern Hokkaido. But the past is not so ready to ditch him; wistful private...

A page turning insider’s account fighting crime in Japan. Does for Tokyo what Homicide did for Baltimore.

Your best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances. You were the last person to see him alive. What do you do? If you’re David Lindsay from Arbroath, you leg it – and don’t go back. Not...

Two women adrift in New York – an Iraqi immigrant widow and the latchkey daughter of a famous chef – find each other and a new kind of family through their shared love of cooking. Lorca, a sensitive and...

Jack Harper isn’t a bad man, but he’s stuck in a loveless marriage with a mediocre job just trying to keep sober. The only good thing in his life is his son. When an old college friend introduces him...

Ever dreamt of escape? That’s what Paradise promises: an ultra-exclusive hotel on the Caribbean island of St Barts. There, a retired actor from Hollywood’s golden age has brought together a glittering selection of guests. But why are they there…and...

Novel set in South Africa and demonstrates through the lives of ordinary people the inhuman quality of South African apartheid. Racial segregation is odious in concept, impossible in application. To prove it, Paton tells us the story of Pieter,...

Over the past several years, “the American in Tuscany,” has become a literary sub genre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes’s Under the Tuscan Sun, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures...