When Georgiana Gregory and her maid, Kitty, make the long sea journey from their native Hull for New York, they hope to begin a new life in the freedom of the newly-formed United States of America.
**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**'A milestone in the campaign for racial equality' GuardianIn 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, highly educated ex-RAF pilot, looks for a job in British engineering.
Based on the groundbreaking #1 national bestseller, The Bully, the Bullied and the Not-So-Innocent Bystander, this book from author Barbara Coloroso arms parents and teachers with the information they need to understand and combat online bullying-an increasingly prevalent among children and teens.
When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and a longing to be reunited with his childhood friend, Shingi.
In a community where poverty is kept close and passed from one generation to the next, two teenage boys, best friends Ashvin and James, stand on top of twin tower blocks.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for FictionCaryl Phillips ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora.
A moving, deeply affecting story about street children in Africa, from the bestselling writer behind the Kurt Wallander series One night Jos hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery.
It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood.
'I wept, real tears, at least seven times reading this novel, and I intend to return to these pages often' - Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of Before All the WorldFor fans of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Rooms for Vanishing is an epic novel of grief and hope and one family blown apart - across the globe, across time, across parallel possibilities - by war.
Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF STASILAND & WIFEDOMA powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II that resonates deeply in today s political climate.
'A fable becoming reality of a woman becoming herself: Tehila Hakimi's Hunting in America just purely bangs' Joshua CohenAn Israeli woman relocates to America on assignment from her tech company.
From the author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon's stunning debut The Question of Bruno is a collection of beautifully told yet polically-charged short fiction.
'Prose this powerful could wake the dead' - ObserverCrossing a century of Eastern European history, The Lazarus Project is a profound exploration of alienation and the immigrant experience from Aleksandar Hemon, author of The World and All That It Holds.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing grew up in Africa - and returns to that troubled, misunderstood continent in this searing collection of short stories.
Im Zeichen des Koru erzählt eine epische Geschichte, die sich über mehrere Generationen erstreckt und das Erbe der Maori mit Themen wie Liebe, Verlust und der unerschütterlichen Kraft des menschlichen Geistes verbindet.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a young girl's experience of growing up in an unnamed African country.
Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker Prize 2009Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2012Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013Shortlisted for the the Orange Prize 2009Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, both winners of The Man Booker Prize, in 2009 and 2012 respectively, are the first two instalments in Hilary Mantel's Tudor trilogy.
