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A refugee washes up on the beach of an island inhabited only by Samuel, an old lighthouse keeper. Samuel is soon swept up in memories of his country suffering under colonisers, then fight for independence, only to fall under a dictator's rule. Now he wonders, to what lengths will a person go to ensure what is theirs will not be taken from them?

A series of poems about growing up queer inPoland in the 1980s. Deliverance has a narrative angle and exploresthemes of gender identity, LGBTQ rights, coming out, homophobia, women's rightsetc, at the same time being mainly based on the author's family/societalhistory/background.

Deidre is a victim, of her family, her society, her history. That is how she sees herself, and so she feels free of all obligations, moral and practical. Until the police take her back to her family home...

SAND ROSES is a tale of resistance, sisterhood and the shameful past of two colliding nations. This extraordinarily immersive narrative thrusts its reader into the Algerian city of Bousaada during the 1930s and the story of the Nailiya dancers.

It's 1997, three years after the end of Apartheid. Two girls, Leilah, who is mixed race, and Frankie, who is white, are drawn together when they start at a new school, one that remains racially divided despite the country's new laws. Their friendship deepens and intensifies before suddenly falling apart when each tells the other secrets.

Tropical sun, walks on the beach, time for exercise and relaxation: life as an expat wife seems like a holiday. Reality proves disappointing and as boredom turns to despair, her fascination with the way her greyhounds hunt and kill develops into daydreams. She pushes herself ever closer to acts unthinkable at home. Is there a killer in us all?

Without the horse, India would not be this India ... The history of the horse in India is an epic tale of life and war, of migration and intermingling, and points towards a greater history throughout the world, the history of humans and animals in symbiosis.

A haunting ode to those who paid the ultimate price-through the prism of the Maoist insurgency, Ashutosh Bhardwaj meditates on larger questions of violence and betrayal, love and obsession, and what it means to live with and write about death.

Tinged with alienation and frustration, each tale strikes the imagination as Addonia weaves humour and the surreal into unashamedly human stories.

Selected by Chris Patten in the Sunday Telegraph as 'the novel which shows the best grasp of political life'. 'Tolstoyan . . . a wide-ranging, detailed and sympathetic portrayal of a whole society.' ANTHONY THWAITE, Observer; 'What a treat . . . stylish, politically interesting and immensely readable.' NINA BAWDEN, Daily Telegraph

A vision, a peculiar international movement flooding the city, an Empress, and a strange artefact called the Chimaera... Petty Veniz will never be the same again, for it seems the Apocalypse is at hand.

Each interviewee was asked to nominate someone they admire as the next link. A theatre director, a rabbi, a sculptor, a pioneering documentary maker, a man who rescues giant trees; in Kabul, a Romanian orphanage, immigration detention centres, Indian villages, the Rwandan genocide, the Ferguson uprising, and UN Climate Change Negotiations.

A unique and beautiful book, profusely illustrated, A Certain Slant of Light was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Prize. Duncan White's moving novel reverberates with unspoken grief. A beautifully written meditation on impermanence, in which art and human life are seen as signal flares into the darkness.

When Daphne becomes pregnant, it isn't only her life that changes... For her husband Amir, for their parents, and for their friends Guy and Abigail, the pregnancy and birth force them all to look at their own lives, at what they want, at their pasts and their futures. Lives are changed.

Matilda was always happy to live vicariously through her collection of classic films- but that was before Thomas brought his manic energy into her life. Can she find her way back to herself?A strange, poetic story of what it is to be a young woman fractured by life.

51 Polish poems, 51 English poems and 51 photographs making this collection. They raise themes such as cultural identity and migration, queerness, racism, isolation and family memories.

This is the story of Lili Pohlmann's incredible childhood and survival. During the Second World War she was helped by many people, sometimes by simply 'looking the other way; but of especial significance were two remarkable non-Jews: a German woman working for the Nazi occupying forces in Lviv, and a Greek Catholic bishop.

A letter from a mother to her daughter reveals a life changing secret... Thousands of miles away, a woman is trapped in a loveless marriage... Mirrors is a story of identity, truth, and uncovering who we truly are.

The summer of 2006, and nineteen-year-old Layla returns to Lebanon. When she arrives she finds that her troubled younger brother is missing. She heads to Beirut to search for him, but her quest is cut short when Beirut comes under fire. A new war has begun, and she is trapped in the middle of it.

Greta Garbo, the immortal goddess of the silver screen, said that she wanted to be alone. What if she had been granted that wish? What if she had travelled further and further until she arrived at the North Pole? And what if she met a faithful dog along the way...

A profoundly moving novel about loss, memory and guilt, written in sparse and elegant prose, KOZLOWSKI tells the story of a man whose experience places him at the heart of one of the 20th century's most contentious war crimes, the 1940 Katyn Massacre.

This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin takes the reader on a writer's journey through the Darwin-Wedgwood-Galton clan, as seen through the lens of Emma's struggle. Along the way, her wry, witty and honest memoir becomes a brave book about failure - and, above all, a book about writing and how stories are told.

Grace Marlowe moves to the far west of Wales, hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a dark, forgotten house. Even her `voices' - her spirit-world companions - appear to abandon her. Except for one... A psychological exploration of a troubled mind, or a story of demonic possession in a haunted house?

The lives of a street girl, an aspiring writer, and a freed slave cross and re-cross the slums of London in this novel about the birth of passion, the burden of addiction, and the consolations of literature.