Brooklyn Heights
Miral al-Tahawy
A novel of displacement and discovery from one of Egypt's most exciting new voices.
Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, emigrates to the United ...
Gyorgy Ligeti
Richard Steinitz
An illuminating study of the life and work of György Ligeti, one of the best-loved and most original composers of our time.
For 50 years György Ligeti has pursued a ...
Sandstorm
Lindsey Hilsum
Sandstorm is the best kind of reportage: humane, historically-informed and full of details that only a writer close to the action could have noticed. The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi has ...
The Blind Man's Garden
Nadeem Aslam
From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Wasted Vigil comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a ...
The Blind Man's Garden
Nadeem Aslam
From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Wasted Vigil comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a ...
The Death of Mao
James Palmer
China is a superpower. A generation ago, it was a basket case. This book is about the moment when everything changed. As a terrified country waited for Mao's death ...
In the Orchard, The Swallows
Peter Hobbs
In the foothills of a mountain range in northern Pakistan is a beautiful orchard. Swallows wheel and dive silently over the branches, and the scent of jasmine threads through the ...
Brooklyn Heights
Miral al-Tahawy
A novel of displacement and discovery from one of Egypt's most exciting new voices.
Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, emigrates to the United ...
Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!
Daljit Nagra
Look We Have Coming to Dover!, the remarkable debut by Daljit Nagra, marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry and won the Forward Prize for Best First ...
Drifting House
Krys Lee
A dazzling debut story collection from Korean-American writer Krys Lee.
Alternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through seventy years of turbulent, post-World War II history in their homeland and ...
The Ruins of Us
Keija Parssinen
More than two decades after moving to Saudi Arabia and marrying Abdullah Baylani, Rosalie learns that her husband has taken a second wife. The discovery plunges the powerful family into ...
Sandstorm
Lindsey Hilsum
Sandstorm is the best kind of reportage: humane, historically-informed and full of details that only a writer close to the action could have noticed. The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi has ...
Drifting House
Krys Lee
A dazzling debut story collection from Korean-American writer Krys Lee.
Alternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through seventy years of turbulent, post-World War II history in their homeland and ...
The Death of Mao
James Palmer
China is a superpower. A generation ago, it was a basket case. This book is about the moment when everything changed. As a terrified country waited for Mao's death ...
The Ruins of Us
Keija Parssinen
More than two decades after moving to Saudi Arabia and marrying Abdullah Baylani, Rosalie learns that her husband has taken a second wife. The discovery plunges the powerful family into ...
In the Orchard, The Swallows
Peter Hobbs
In the foothills of a mountain range in northern Pakistan is a beautiful orchard. Swallows wheel and dive silently over the branches, and the scent of jasmine threads through the ...
Mission to China
Mary Laven
In the sixteenth century, the vast and sophisticated empire of China lay almost entirely unknown to Western travellers. As global trade expanded, this land of reputedly boundless wealth, pale-faced women ...
Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!
Daljit Nagra
Look We Have Coming to Dover!, the remarkable debut by Daljit Nagra, marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry and won the Forward Prize for Best First ...
When God Made Hell
Charles Townshend
Since 2003, Iraq has rarely left the headlines. But less discussed is the fact that Iraq as we know it was created by the British, in one of the most ...
Beware of Small States
David Hirst
A magisterial history of Lebanon and the Middle East, from the end of Ottoman rule to the Hizbullah and Hamas wars of today, by David Hirst, the veteran Middle East ...




















