General

May 1989. Tens of thousands of students are camped out in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. One of them, Dai Wei, argues with about everything from democracy to the distribution of food to protestors, little knowing that, on 4 June, a soldier will shoot a bullet into his head, sending him into a coma. This book chronicles the lead-up to his shooting.

In a country recovering from a brutal and divisive civil war, a young boy, Jamie, is knocked off his bike and dies in a city street. His father agrees to allow one of Jamie's lungs to be removed and flown over the border for a transplant.

The mission is Vietnam in microcosm: a quest to find and destroy a secret cache of enemy weapons. Leading this fateful journey is Captain MacHugh Clare. His reward at the end of the mission is the possibility of seeing his wife. Meanwhile, in America, Mac's wife Sarah begins to see possibilities beyond merely waiting for the man she loves.

Charlie Johnson is a veteran war correspondent who thinks he has seen it all - until he makes one rash expedition into a war zone in the Balkans.

A "song man" blinds his daughter to keep her from following her half-brother, who ran away due to the art's rigorous training. The girl forgives her father before his death, and through this act, she deepens her insight into the nature of human existence, and, as her father had insisted would happen, ...

Lark and her brother, Termite, who is unable to walk or talk but is deeply loved by his family. The two are raised by their aunt Nonie in place of Lola, their mother, and Termite's father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, who is caught up in the chaos of the Korean War.

A special tie-in edition to Michael Hoffman's new Oscar-tipped movie, The Last Station

Duelling, derring-do, and dastardly deeds are all in a day's work for Liberty Lane: the plucky heroine for fans of Georgette Heyer and Sarah Waters's Victorian novels.

The famous comedy actress Pauline McLynn has crafted a hugely entertaining and poignant novel

A novel about bloodthirsty 1950s movie cowgirls with hallucinogenic toadsucking properties: this is seductive, fine fiction at the cutting edge of mayhem

What happens when the minibus full of your fellow wedding travellers hits a bear in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness? From a lonely excursion to a Lisbon cafe to the sometimes disorienting experience of emerging from a New York subway, this work focuses on a range of subjects related to travel.

These early writings from award-winning playwright Ed Bullins explore the themes of loneliness and despair. The New York Times hailed the 'richness of language and observation' of these beautifully crafted stories - written, as they put it, by a 'black writer for black people'.

Alexandre Najjar was eight when Lebanon erupted into a bloody and brutal conflict; he was twenty-three when the guns at last fell silent. After seven years of voluntary exile, he is now back amongst his family and friends, and the past is quickly catching up with him. This work offers insights into the experience of childhood in war.

In this heartfelt collection of stories Druznhikov describes life in Russia before and after the collapse of Communism as well as the plight of Russian émigrés in the USA in post - communist times.

At home in San Francisco, between research trips to Africa, renowned primatologist Suzanne Albrecht finds herself suffering from an unexplained fever. Dr. Tony Miller, one of the sharpest diagnosticians in San Francisco, is determined to uncover the cause. But Suzanne doesn't have time for hospitals ...

Kit and Alice are happy, in love and enjoying a luxurious weekend break abroad when the unthinkable happens. Their car spins off a mountain road and into an empty desert valley. Their lives are changed in an instant.