General

The stories in The Coast of Good Intentions evoke the landscape of the Pacific North-west with impressive ease - crab factories, cranberry bogs, the fog-shrouded shore, the Seattle skyline. Here are ordinary lives in all their messy, unresolved glory.

In a brasserie just off the Boulevard St-Germain, a distinguished author is entranced as he watches the motions of a young woman folding a restaurant bill into a paper boat. On an impulse he proposes to her. She answers without hesitation: yes, she will marry him, but on her terms.

This title provides a fictional snapshot of a mongrel nation, by a high-profile group of young writers.

An anthology of African writing from writers known and unknown from Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa. It includes work from Stephen Grey, Frank Meintjies, Liz Gunner and Kelwyn Sole, alongside the contribution of Nobel prizewinner Nadine Gordimer.

Ray is a security guard, and spends his days waiting and burning up inside. He is unable to form a lasting relationship and his anger is reaching eruption point. But his attention turns to Tim Griffith, a famous movie star, and Ray decides to teach him a lesson he'll never forget.

Ex-linebacker-turned-Denver P.I. Streeter battles a whole new set of low-lifes when he represents a local restaurateur who lands in hot water with some major underworld figures and ends up in the middle of a pizza war