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A collection of eight short stories that illuminate the diverse nuances of life as an Indian immigrant in modern day Australia, with its unique challenges, joys and opportunities.

A murder investigation in post-war France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation.

Reflects the consequences of 9/11, that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. This novel presents the story of a seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont.

In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family s homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbours, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her gun-slinging fugitive ...

Birdy Flynn fights harder than any boy at school. And Birdy Flynn carries secrets.

A bewitching literary suspense debut, rich in atmosphere and Gothic overtones

So Lucky is the UK edition of award-winning novelist Nicola Griffith's tense new novel. Mara is the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS foundation, an accomplished martial artist, and happily married. She has never met a problem she can't solve-until in one week her wife leaves her, she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and she loses her job.

In exile after being ousted from the family castle, recovering alcoholic Tristram St. Lawrence finds himself back in Dublin when an old acquaintance pitches a development project that his sponsor, a mysterious businessman, supports.

Stella has been cocooned in her home for three years. Severely agoraphobic, she knows she is safe in the stark, isolated house she shares with her husband, Max. The traumatic memories of her final case as a psychologist are that much easier to keep at a distance, too.

A member of the greatest generation looks back on the loves and losses of his past and comes to treasure the present anew in this poignant and thoughtful new novel from a modern master Stewart O'Nan is renowned for illuminating the unexpected grace of everyday life and the resilience of ordinary people ...

A propulsive debut of visionary scale, Make Me a City embroiders fact with fiction to tell the story of Chicago's 19th century, tracing its rise from frontier settlement to industrial colossus. The tale begins with a game of chess—and on the outcome of that game hinges the destiny of a great city. ...

Running from her father's brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to the United States during the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story is inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana Alliluyeva. ...

From his terrace, Samuel observes the hectic everyday life like someone who is on his way back from having achieved nothing. He is a person who is not committed to anything or anyone. Early one morning, he receives a phone call informing him that Clara has died in an accident. Although Samuel doesn't ...

A novel about family, love and other battlefields

After a trip home to Moravia reveals that his father is not a businessman but actually a great composer, unsuccessful musician, Leib Goldkorn, returns to New York to launch a production of his father's opera Rubezahl to disastrous results.

Receiving a frightening communication from an anonymous hacker who has triggered numerous disasters designed to look like natural events, Homeland Security Secretary Catherine Blaine is threatened to comply with the hacker's instructions or risk nation-destroying events, a situation that involves a journalist ...

A comic glance at the old American West and a serious story about transformation and redemption, Turpentine is a bold, inventive novel about a young man's attempt to make sense of the past while unsteadily growing into adulthood. In 1871, Edward Turrentine Bayard III, sick and restless, leaves his Connecticut ...

An anarchic and hilarious portrait of a downwardly mobile family in post-crash Dublin