The writer went to live in a small village in Liguria and this is the tail of her experiences amongst ‘mezzadri’ – ‘half people’. She writes about her walks around the villages whose inhabitants left long ago and only...

The story of Okonkwo, a “strong man” in an Ibo village, and the clash of civilization between his world and that of the European missionaries.

Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel is first on the scene as a stolen car crashes on a misty, wet Manchester morning. The driver is dead, but the biggest shock awaits her when she discovers the body of a child wrapped...

They killed her best friend. Now they are chasing Rachel Anderson through the streets of Cape Town. The young tourist doesn’t dare trust anyone – except her father, back home in America. When he puts pressure on the politicians,...

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.