Chris Kraus' The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga and Moscow, Berlin and Munich, all the way to Tel Aviv.
Boris Johnson's first novel, Seventy-Two Virgins is a no-holds-barred political satire, a comic romp peopled with a gallery of grotesques which lampoons both the absurdities and the extremes of modern society.
Powerful and sensitively told, The Deserter is the debut novel from Peter Bourne, exploring the complexities of family and political tensions within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, a deeply compelling story of love, adventure, divided loyalties, and what happens when beliefs begin to remake - or destroy - a world.
The gripping conclusion a thrilling fantasy adventure trilogy filled with necromancy and bone-chilling magic from the bestselling US author of the Nightrunner series.
Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D.
When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country.
'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new political reformers, particularly those known as Nihilists.
When Richard Slater receives a letter of complaint from one of his constituents, a Margaret Hayton, he merely responds with his standard letter of empty promises.
A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK As heart-wrenching as it is achingly beautiful Sadeqa Johnson, author of The House of EveHeartbreaking and life affirmingAdrienne Brodeur, author of Little MonstersCourage, friendship, loyalty, hardship, love this novel has everything MaryBeth Keane, Ask Again, YesFrom the author of The Stationery Shop of Tehran, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.
'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality.
St Radegund's College, Cambridge, which admits only women students, breaks with one hundred and sixty years of tradition by appointing a man, former BBC executive James Rycarte, as its new Head of House.
A remarkable novel from the National Book Award-winning author of 'Going After Cacciato' and 'The Things They Carried', which combines the power of the finest Vietnam fiction with the tension of a many-layered mystery.
1968 – Wolf Heller ermittelt in politisch aufgeheizter ZeitRudi Dutschke, Uschi Obermaier, Willy Brandt, Axel Springer, Benno Ohnesorg - die Sechzigerjahre sind ihre Bühne, Berlin ist ihre Bühne.
Quickly quickly, the world changes, its map changes, civilizations arise and empires, but soon its sun sets, and its star escapes, and if the time extends to time, it becomes an impact after an eye, and the dawn of others is envirled, and here is America entering the track of the emergence of civilizations and its eagerness, as it strengthens and reached an affair Great, so that it is not satisfied with just being a great power in the eighties To join the precedent civilizations and ancient empires.
For months hed thought of her as the Mystery Woman, draped in a black velvet cloak, with outrageous red curls, flawless skin, and carrying a large, odd case but the night David Dodd saw a helicopter drop a chunk of metal through the roof of his lovely neighbors bedroom, he got to meet the formidable and delightful Katherine Finn at last!
