The year is 1943 and Nazi pressure onthe Japanese means thousands of Jewish refugees relocate to Shanghai. Franz and Sunny Adler make the move to the ghetto and continue to operate the only hospital for Jewish refugees

Taita is a the brilliant eunuch slave who narrates the story. The main plot is the love between Lostris, the wife of the Pharoah of Egypt, and Tanus, a commander of an army of Pharoah and a trusted friend...

Rain falls relentlessly on the Po valley in northern Italy, and the river is swollen to its limits. A huge barge leaves its moorings, steering an erratic course downstream and away into the foggy night. When finally it runs...

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam’s film, “The Killing Fields”, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. These years in Camodia influenced how Swain re-evaluated life and death in this country,...

Love, passion and the road trip of a lifetime in this breathtaking novel, perfect for all fans of Jodi Picoult, from the internationally bestselling author of The Bronze Horseman Two girls, an open road and a shiny yellow Mustang;...

From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived...

16 short stories set in and around the outskirts of Rome, edite by Chiara Stangalino and Maxim Jakubowski. A varied take on lives in the city, some jaded and visceral, others jaunty and explosive.

From the back cover: Rich characterisation and spine tingling adventure combine in a vividly realised novel set amid the bloodshed and the chaos, the heroism and murderous betrayal of ancient Rome.

Very much of the era – and very stylish for the time – this series by husband and wife team leads the pack. A girl’s body is found by a dredger in a lock near Sweden’s Lake Vattern. She...

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her...