Fiction
Movement
V.V. Ganeshananthan
As the devastating Sri Lankan civil war begins, a courageous, independent young Tamil woman must navigate the violent chaos of political movements that have taken over her home. While I am no longer t…
Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
A nurse at the Family Planning Clinic in Montgomery Alabama, Civil Townsend is passionate about putting choice into women’s hands. She brings the option of birth control to their doorsteps, and with i…
Pennyblade
J.L. Worrad
A sharp-tongued disgraced-noble-turned-mercenary has to stop the world collapsing into chaos in this gripping, savagely funny epic fantasy packed with unforgettable characters, for fans of Joe Abercro…
The Belladonna Maze
Sinéad Crowley
“Deirdre loved the Maze and her father loved to please her and so it stood, and flourished, and had become, over the years, her playground. Here too the belladonna had taken hold and a trail of black…
Love At Nightfall
Mina Namous
Their story begins at a work meeting in the center of Algiers – with his elegant suit, confident voice and air of self-assurance… Does it even matter what their meeting is about? Karim lives in Paris,…
FellowCountrymen
Sylvia Nasar
In the darkest decades of the last century, when it looked as if capitalism and democracy could no longer deliver jobs or social justice, a group of privileged, intelligent, ambitious individuals join…
Skylark
Alice O'Keeffe
It is the mid-nineties, there is a sense of excitement and social change in the air. Free spirited Skylark is an activist who has fled her stifling suburban background and is set on making the world a…
The Path of Possibilities
Marie Robert
This is an epic. Between Boston, Vienna, Paris, Geneva, São Paulo and New York, Penelope explores the pathways of possibility by conducting philosophical journeys. Narrating and discovering the great…
THE SPY WHO INSPIRED ME
Stephen Clarke
For legal reasons, this novel does not mention J*mes B*nd. Which is a shame, because it is a comedy based on the idea that I*n Fl*ming’s famously macho spy might have been inspired by a woman … It i…
The Hive
H.R. Hyde
So long as they pay everything up front – which amounts to their entire life’s savings. They decide this leap of faith is just the thing they need; Leon needs time and solitude to write his novel, and…