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AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLER, ZABELLE • AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEWED, ALL THE LIGHT THERE WAS • In vivid, poetic prose, Nancy Kricorian’s The Burning Heart of the World tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, and after the Lebanese Civil War. “You won’t be able to put th...

Professional Lola embodies the joy, mystery, humor, sadness, hunger, and family that inhabit modern-day Filipino American virtues.

'[A] whimsical tale of transformation... magic is essential, and Okri can spin it.' Guardian 'Full of rich hallucinatory imagery and enjoyably vibrant symbolism' Irish Times What do you do when your heart has been made a wasteland by love? Viv, who's in the House of Lords, had the idea for the ...

The extraordinary new novel by the author of Untraceable. A sealed shaft in a Donbas coal mine contains unimaginable horror: layer upon layer of human bodies, the victims of Red and White terror during the Revolution, of Stalin's purges, of the Einsatzgruppen in the Holocaust. Around this infam...

From the acclaimed author of Norwegian by Night, a story of two men given a second chance to save the girl they failed to protect decades before. 1991 Near Checkpoint Zulu, one hundred miles from the Kuwait border, British journalist Thomas Benton meets American private Arwood Hobbes. Desert Sto...

A powerful and gripping allegory of an ordinary man trying to survive in the oppressive Chinese communist regime of the 1970s.

Sugarcane with Salt offers a glimpse into the lives and traditions of those living in 1980s Malawi and explores the feeling of living like a stranger in your own country. After almost a decade of studying medicine in London, Dr. Khumbo Dala finally decides to return to his village in Malawi. But...

The Rumpus Book Club Pick, May 2022 Most Anticipated Books of 2022, The Rumpus 16 Upcoming Books from Indie Presses You’ll Love, BuzzFeed Best Books of the Summer, Powell’s Saul doesn't get why he's misunderstood. At his high-tech day job, he hides in the bathroom writing a novel about his de...

From the Arthur C. Clarke award winner, Adrian Tchaikovsky, comes the third instalment of the DOGS OF WAR science fiction series, a future where genetically engineered “Bioforms” have inherited not the Earth, but the Solar System. The end of the world has been and gone. There was no one great n...

Set in 2018 against the ironic backdrop of an overcrowded, fetid refugee camp on the beautiful, Homeric island of Samos in Greece, The Good Deed follows the stories of five women: Amina, who is nineteen and has just been released from one of Bashar al-Assad's secret and torture-ridden prisons in ...