Narrative theme: Politics

A classic novel featuring Dickson McCunn, introduced in John Buchan's previous book 'Huntingtower', and his adopted son Jaikie, who meets a media mogul named Craw.

The Making of Zombie Wars is a hilarious black comedy from Aleksandar Hemon, celebrated author of The Lazarus Project.

In Ireland in 1826 millions knew only famine, oppression and degradation.

This is a vivid and memorable novel set in Dublin, 1916, during the Easter Rebellion and the bitter years which followed.

It is 1649.

In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran.

With a preface by the author.

Miguel Street, V.

A pulse-racing spy thriller by Andrew Grant, now the co-author of the Jack Reacher novels as Andrew Child.

Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess'Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing' - Sunday Telegraph'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverBucharest, 1940.

'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid' - Sunday Times'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverAthens, 1941.

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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.

In the twilight years of Communist East Germany, Bruno Krug, a womanising 'People s Champion of Art and Culture' who once penned a world-famous novel, falls for Theresa Aden, a music student from the West.

In 1989, the memorable year when the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his early morning run finds a corpse lying on a park bench and alerts the authorities.

In Great Waters is a fictional history both familiar and alien.

Look after your sister, Tinashe.

In a wind-battered Mayo cottage, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with Catherine Adams.

THE BOOK; Alice Kessleris a fighter and when she is told that her husband only has a few months left to live, she refuses to accept it.

It is the year 1152, and a beautiful woman rides through France, fleeing her crown, her two young daughters and a shattered marriage.

Ahmadou Kourouma's remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora - storyteller and king's fool.

Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile s young poetry scene.

Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner.

A chilling portrait of life under Communist rule by Albania's most important writerIt's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania.

The modern classic from double Booker Prize winner J.

The second book in the trilogy which began with the Booker prize-winning The Famished Road.

Discover a novel which arose from the author's ambition to invent a hell of his own.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEPhilip Roth s masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America Swede Levov is living the American dream.

The second novel of Roth s eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American PastoralI Married a Communist charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a ditchdigger in 1930s New Jersey, becoming a big-time radio hotshot in the 1940s.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ANDREW O'HAGANJohn Self is a consumer extraordinaire.

Mary Margaret Hamilton was educated in Scotland.

The unforgettable, haunting story of a young womans perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, in the first novel published in English by a female Kurdish writer Set in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel takes readers into the everyday lives of the Kurds.

A member of Scotland Yard's secret anti-anarchist police corps, Gabriel Syme infiltrates the local European anarchist council only to discover that the group is not what it presents itself to be.

The perfect pick-me-up from bestseller Jane Lovering.

THE GRIPPING ESPIONAGE THRILLER FROM AWARD-WINNER RJ ELLORY'This tense, atmospheric, totally believable thriller harks back to the golden age of espionage but is also about how well we really know our friends' THE SUN* * * * *The mission was supposed to be simple.

'However bad the day's news, there'll still be a Matt cartoon the morning after, and we'll still laugh - he's a genius!

The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow KingAddis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974 - the eve of a revolution.

'Dazzling.

Into a Berlin wrenched between East and West, comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best ThrillerSooner or later, everybody pays.

in Bulgakov's allegorical masterpiece of Stalin s regime the devil is making a personal appearance in Moscow.

Tel Aviv.

Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner.

From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction and one of the best crime writers of our time a new critically acclaimed novel centered around the unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.

The Sunday Times bestselling author Manda Scott brings Ancient Rome to life in this memorable tale of treachery, espionage and violence.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2003In The Master of Petersburg J.

'A wonderful, rich and humane novel.