One Thousand Chestnut Trees
An epic tale of an enigmatic land – Korea – and one woman’s search for her past.
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Friendly Fire
The new book from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the international bestseller ‘The Yacoubian Building’ and ‘Chicago’.
The Bad Book Affair
The Bad Book Affair features the magnificently hapless Israel Armstrong – the duffle-coat wearing, navel-gazing Jewish librarian who solves crimes, mysteries, and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland.
The Bad Book Affair
The Bad Book Affair features the magnificently hapless Israel Armstrong – the duffle-coat wearing, navel-gazing Jewish librarian who solves crimes, mysteries, and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland.
Friendly Fire
The new book from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the international bestsellers The Yacoubian Building and Chicago
The Vagrants
The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer.
The Binding Chair
‘This is a tale as absorbing and exciting as Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha.’ Sunday Express The magical tale of a young orphan’s adventures after she flees rural China for turn-of-the-century Shanghai. From Kathryn Harrison, author of the bestselling memoir THE KISS.
Map of the Invisible World
From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning ‘The Harmony Silk Factory’ comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world.
Evening Is the Whole Day
A spellbinding, exuberant first novel, set in Malaysia, that introduces us to a prosperous Indian immigrant family, as it slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets.
The Man from Saigon
“After all the stories of battles and deaths, of torture and loss and hatred, someone should tell this one, too, about a man who moved among them, who seemed to love them.”
Evening Is the Whole Day
‘A magical, exuberant tragic-comic vision of post-colonial Malaysia reminiscent of Rushdie and Roy. In prose of acrobatic grace, Samarasan conjures a vibrant portrait, by turns intimate and sweeping, of characters and a country coming of age. The debut of a significant, and thrilling new talent.’ Peter Ho Davies
A Girl Made of Dust
A rich and beautiful novel set during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s, and based on the author’s personal experiences of the conflict.
The Harmony Silk Factory
A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain’s most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia.
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
Decorated British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk has been based in the Middle East for the last twenty-five years, reporting from the world’s worst trouble-spots. This is his first-person account of fifty years of bloodshed and tragedy in the area, from the Palestinian-Israeli carnage to the recent war against Iraq.
Three Views of Crystal Water
A literary saga, spanning two generations and two cultures, Canadian and Japanese, reminiscent in writing style and appeal to the work of Isabel Allende.