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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 275 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
    The Factory - by Hiroko Oyamada

    £12.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781803510538 | ISBN 10: 1803510536

    Beyond the town, there is the factory. Beyond the factory, there is nothing.  Within the sprawling industrial complex, three employees are assigned to different departments. There, each must focus on a specific task: one shreds paper, one proofre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
    Diary of a Void - by Emi Yagi

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529114812 | ISBN 10: 1529114810

    A hilarious, feminist debut novel from a new star of Japanese fiction.   'One of the most intriguing new novels of the summer.' Independent   For the sake of women everywhere, Ms Shibata is going to pull off the mother of all deceptions...   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto
    The Premonition - by Banana Yoshimoto

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571382309 | ISBN 10: 0571382304

    From the beloved, bestselling author of Kitchen, comes a deeply haunting, heartwarming exploration of loneliness and painful memories set in Japan.   ‘Polished, concise, emotionally rewarding.’ Daily Mail ‘Reading Banana Yoshimoto is li ... more

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  • Cover image of book She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa
    She and Her Cat - by Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804993118 | ISBN 10: 1804993115

    On the outskirts of Tokyo, in a neighbourhood crossed by a commuter railway, local cats weave their way through the lives and homes of their owners as they navigate difficult times.   A cat named Chobi sends silent messages of courage to a young w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan
    Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop - by Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526662279 | ISBN 10: 1526662272

    There was only one thing on her mind.  'I must start a bookshop.'  Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, qui ... more

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  • Cover image of book Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
    Before Your Memory Fades - by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781035032402 | ISBN 10: 1035032406

    The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time.  On the hillside of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Cafe Donna Donna is fabled ... more

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  • Cover image of book Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
    Before We Say Goodbye - by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781035023424 | ISBN 10: 1035023423

    The million-copy bestselling series.  Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to mee ... more

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  • Cover image of book Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-jin
    Concerning My Daughter - by Kim Hye-jin

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529057683 | ISBN 10: 152905768x

    The Prize-Winning International Bestseller   'I can't help but be moved by a story about women meeting, fighting, helping each other, looking after one another, and raising their voices against the prejudice and criticism they are subject to.' Ch ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto
    Tokyo Express - by Seicho Matsumoto

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241439081 | ISBN 10: 0241439086

    'An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train   'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha Christie' Laura Hackett, The Sunday Times   'It was a puzzl ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories by Various authors
    The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories - by Various authors

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781784878726 | ISBN 10: 1784878723

    Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries.  From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Jap ... more

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  • Cover image of book Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
    Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - by Satoshi Yagisawa

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786583239 | ISBN 10: 1786583232

    Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books.   Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop ha ... more

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  • Cover image of book What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
    What You Are Looking for is in the Library - by Michiko Aoyama

    £12.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780857529121 | ISBN 10: 0857529129

    THE BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL  For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-stirring Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can help us fulfil our dreams.  'I definitely want to visit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Run And Hide by Pankaj Mishra
    Run And Hide - by Pankaj Mishra

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529158106 | ISBN 10: 1529158109

    FROM THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER COMES A GATSBY-ESQUE TALE OF WEALTH AND AMBITION  'A book that demands to be read' MOHSIN HAMID  'Terrific... deeply satisfying to read' KAMILA SHAMSIE  Arun and his two classmates, Aseem and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Halfways by Nilopar Uddin
    The Halfways - by Nilopar Uddin

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008478742 | ISBN 10: 0008478740

    ‘I loved this sweeping family drama. Moving and unforgettable’ Sarah Morgan, Sunday Times bestselling author   ‘A moving, atmospheric and engrossing family saga. Its characters will stay with you long after you have finished the book’ Dee ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beautiful Shining People by Michael Grothaus
    Beautiful Shining People - by Michael Grothaus

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914585647 | ISBN 10: 191458564x

    A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo café, sparking an epic journey across Japan that will change everything, forever... a captivating, masterful novel with an extraordinary mystery at its heart...  ‘Set a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Peacock Spring by Rumer Godden
    The Peacock Spring - by Rumer Godden

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529078480 | ISBN 10: 1529078482

    The Peacock Spring is a beautiful and heartbreaking novel of loss of innocence and coming-of-age from Rumer Godden, the acclaimed author of Black Narcissus and The Greengage Summer.  At fifteen and twelve, the daughters of diplomat have alrea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Honor by Thrity Umrigar
    Honor - by Thrity Umrigar

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781800751590 | ISBN 10: 1800751591

    'A powerful, important, unforgettable book’ Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild   In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of lov ... more

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  • Cover image of book Victory City by Salman Rushdie
    Victory City - by Salman Rushdie

    £22.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781787333444 | ISBN 10: 1787333442

    The new novel from the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight’s Children.  'A total pleasure to read, a bright burst of colour in a grey winter season' Sunday Times  She will whisper an empire into existence - but all ... more

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  • Cover image of book Disobedient Women by Sangeeta Mulay
    Disobedient Women - by Sangeeta Mulay

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913211851 | ISBN 10: 1913211851

    Set in contemporary India, Sangeeta Mulay's unforgettable debut novel is a compelling story of four unforgettable characters:   Aparna - a courageous campaigner of rationality and freedom of expression. Will the patriarchal grip of a religious s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cocoon by Zhang Yueran
    Cocoon - by Zhang Yueran

    £13.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781912987283 | ISBN 10: 1912987287

    *NEW YORKER BEST BOOKS OF 2022*  A new generation comes to terms with China’s past.  Cheng Gong and Li Jiaqi go way back. Both hailing from dysfunctional families, they grew up together in a Chinese provincial capital in the 1980s. ... more

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  • Cover image of book New Skin for the Old Ceremony: A Kirtan by Arun Sood
    New Skin for the Old Ceremony: A Kirtan - by Arun Sood

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781912489534 | ISBN 10: 1912489538

    A tale on youth, mis-belonging, music, race, and motley motorcycle rides across Northern India and Skye as four unlikely friends try to reconnect after a decade apart. Four estranged friends reunite for a motorcycle trip up the Isle of Skye, in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin
    The Pachinko Parlour - by Elisa Shua Dusapin

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914198168 | ISBN 10: 1914198166

    Longlisted for The National Book Critics Circle Awards for Barrios Books in Translation Prize.  From the author of Winter in Sokcho, Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature.  The days are beginning to draw i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai
    The Cat Who Saved Books - by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529081480 | ISBN 10: 1529081483

    Grandpa used to say it all the time: books have tremendous power. But what is that power really?  Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering shelves reached the ceiling, every one crammed full of wonderful ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
    Heaven - by Mieko Kawakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781509898251 | ISBN 10: 1509898255

    From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a fourteen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying.   In Heaven, a fourteen-year old boy is torm ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Twilight World by Werner Herzog
    The Twilight World - by Werner Herzog

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781847927231 | ISBN 10: 1847927238

    'A potent, vaporous fever dream; a meditation on truth, lies, illusion and time' NEW YORK TIMES  In his first novel, the great filmmaker, Werner Herzog, tells the incredible story of a Japanese soldier who defended a small island for twenty-n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto
    Dead-End Memories - by Banana Yoshimoto

    £20.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781640093690 | ISBN 10: 1640093699

    Japan’s internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday life.   First published in Japan ... more

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  • Cover image of book China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
    China Room - by Sunjeev Sahota

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784706364 | ISBN 10: 1784706361

    A story of forbidden love that echoes across generations - from the prize-winning author of The Year of the Runaways.  'A gorgeous, gripping read' Kamila Shamsie 'A multi-generational masterpiece' Daily Mail  * A Book of the Year for The Tim ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
    Black Water Sister - by Zen Cho

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781509800018 | ISBN 10: 1509800018

    'A sharp and bittersweet story of past and future, ghosts and gods and family, that kept me turning pages into the dark hours of the night' – Naomi Novik, author of Uprooted  This mischievous Malaysian-set novel is an adventure featuring fami ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda
    Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight - by Riku Onda

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913394592 | ISBN 10: 191339459x

    Translated by Alison Watts  From the author of The Aosawa Murders, one of the NYT Notable Books of 2020. The WSJ commented: “Part psychological thriller, part murder mystery—it is audacious in conception and brilliant in execution.” T ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Snow Line by Tessa McWatt
    The Snow Line - by Tessa McWatt

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781912854479 | ISBN 10: 1912854473

    "Tessa McWatt is one of our greatest living writers. The Snow Line, her new novel, is a profound meditation on love, ageing, and what it is to be a woman of mixed racial identity and culture. Profoundly moving and epic in its scope, this book provide ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diamond Hill by Kit Fan
    Diamond Hill - by Kit Fan

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349701684 | ISBN 10: 0349701687

    "A rapid-fire debut with a cinematographer's eye for detail... Fan strikes a deft balance between agile set-pieces and lingering beauty."(Naoise Dolan) "A vivid, powerful portrait of a vanishing world."(David Nicholls) Diamond Hill was once t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ceremony of Innocence by Madeleine Bunting
    Ceremony of Innocence - by Madeleine Bunting

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783787500 | ISBN 10: 1783787503

    A Cambridge PhD student called Reem has gone missing in Egypt. Those close to her fear that her investigation into her family”s history in the Gulf has put her in danger. The trail leads back to Tehran in 1969, when diplomat Martin Wilcox Smith, fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Children of Sugarcane by Joanne Joseph
    Children of Sugarcane - by Joanne Joseph

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781776191864 | ISBN 10: 1776191862

    Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and lyricism, Children of Sugarcane paints an intimate and wrenching picture of indenture told from a woman’s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sisters Mao by Gavin McCrea
    The Sisters Mao - by Gavin McCrea

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913348939 | ISBN 10: 1913348938

    ‘McCrea’s portrait of Jiang Qing is a masterpiece of characterisation: at once monstrous and pitiable. The Sisters Mao is dazzlingly clever and original.’ Antonia Senior, The Times  A Sunday Independent Book of the Year  Against the ba ... more

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  • Cover image of book All The Lovers In The Night by Mieko Kawakami
    All The Lovers In The Night - by Mieko Kawakami

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781509898268 | ISBN 10: 1509898263

    From international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes All The Lovers In The Night, an extraordinary, deeply moving and insightful story set in contemporary Tokyo.  Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra
    The Bangalore Detectives Club - by Harini Nagendra

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781408715185 | ISBN 10: 140871518x

    ‘The first in an effervescent new mystery series... a treat for historical mystery lovers looking for a new series to savor (or devour)’ NEW YORK TIMES  Murder and mayhem... monsoon season is coming.   Solving crimes isn’t easy.& ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women by Various authors
    My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women - by Various authors

    £12.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529422214 | ISBN 10: 1529422213

    “My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream”   A woman’s fortitude saves her village from disaster. A teenager explores their identity in a moment of qu ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina
    How to Kidnap the Rich - by Rahul Raina

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349144375 | ISBN 10: 0349144370

    If you’re fat and Indian, you’re rich; if you’re fat and poor, you’re lying. It’s only the West where the rich are thin and vegan and moral...   Ramesh Kumar grew up deprived and unloved, working on his father’s tea stall in the Old Ci ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
    A Passage North - by Anuk Arudpragasam

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783786961 | ISBN 10: 1783786965

    Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize   It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother”s former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
    Build Your House Around My Body - by Violet Kupersmith

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780861542147 | ISBN 10: 0861542142

    Feverishly energetic and playfully creepy, an unforgettable debut that hurtles through the ghostly secrets of Vietnamese history.  Two young Vietnamese women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have thei ... more

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  • Cover image of book China: An Epic Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
    China: An Epic Novel - by Edward Rutherfurd

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781444787801 | ISBN 10: 1444787802

    The internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic: China, The Novel.  China in the nineteenth century: a proud and ancient empire forbidden to foreigners. The West desires Chinese tea above all o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
    Please Look After Mother - by Kyung-Sook Shin

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474621687 | ISBN 10: 1474621686

    WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE  When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows ... more

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  • Cover image of book Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
    Breasts and Eggs - by Mieko Kawakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529074413 | ISBN 10: 152907441x

    On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in searc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita
    The Forest of Wool and Steel - by Natsu Miyashita

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784162986 | ISBN 10: 1784162981

    OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD.  What he experienced that day wasn't life-changing...It was life-making.  Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the fores ... more

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  • Cover image of book Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
    Earthlings - by Sayaka Murata

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781783785698 | ISBN 10: 1783785691

    Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet.  Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of othe ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
    The Mountains Sing - by Nguyen Phan Que Mai

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780861540136 | ISBN 10: 0861540131

    An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family's battle to survive.  Winner of the Blogger's Book Prize, 2021  Selected as a Best Book of 2020 by NB Magazine * BookBrowse * Buzz Magazine * NPR * Washington Independent Revie ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyoko Nakajima
    Things Remembered and Things Forgotten - by Kyoko Nakajima

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781908745965 | ISBN 10: 1908745967

    'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'.  So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cat and The City by Nick Bradley
    The Cat and The City - by Nick Bradley

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786499912 | ISBN 10: 1786499916

    In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley
    The Lost Future of Pepperharrow - by Natasha Pulley

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781408885147 | ISBN 10: 140888514x

    "A Japan that never was, a future lost, ghosts that are not dead ... not even a partial list of ingredients can do justice to this wonderful cake of a book ... A time-defying thriller."(Robin Hobb) Strange things are happening in Tokyo.  A ... more

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  • Cover image of book What
    What's Left of Me is Yours - by Stephanie Scott

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474610896 | ISBN 10: 1474610897

    One of the Observer's Ten Best Debut Novelists of 2020  A gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime, What's Left of Me Is Yours follows a young woman's search for the truth about her mother's life - and her murder.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Low by Jeet Thayil
    Low - by Jeet Thayil

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571356423 | ISBN 10: 0571356427

    Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife's ashes.   Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis escapes to Bombay in search of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction by Maesy Ang and Teddy W. Kusuma (Editors)
    The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction - by Maesy Ang and Teddy W. Kusuma (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912697328 | ISBN 10: 1912697327

    Featuring: utiuts ., Sabda Armandio, Hanna Fransisca, Cyntha Hariadi, Afrizal Malna, Dewi Kharisma Michellia, Ratri Ninditya, Yusi Avianto Pareanom, Ben Sohib & Ziggy Zezsyazeoviennazabrizkie   A group of senior citizens set out to visit an amus ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami
    Ms Ice Sandwich - by Mieko Kawakami

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781782276722 | ISBN 10: 1782276726

    A young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her aloof demeanour and electric blue eyelids make him feel the most intense joy he's ever known. He calls her Ms Ice Sandwich, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strange Weather In Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
    Strange Weather In Tokyo - by Hiromi Kawakami

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783785797 | ISBN 10: 1783785799

    Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the ... more

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  • Cover image of book If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
    If I Had Your Face - by Frances Cha

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241396070 | ISBN 10: 0241396077

    If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerizing world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extreme plastic surgery is as routine as getting a haircut, where women compete for spots in secret 'room salons' to entertain wealthy businessmen after ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
    The Island of Sea Women - by Lisa See

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471183836 | ISBN 10: 1471183831

    A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.   Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Shanghai: A City in Short Fiction by Jin Li and Dai Congrong (Editors)
    The Book of Shanghai: A City in Short Fiction - by Jin Li and Dai Congrong (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912697274 | ISBN 10: 1912697270

    Featuring Wang Anyi, Xiao Bai, Shen Dacheng, Chen Danyan, Cai Jun, Chen Qiufan, Xia Shang, Teng Xiaolan, Fu Yuehui & Wang Zhanhei  As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man’s only wish is to return a library book... ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where The Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton
    Where The Wild Ladies Are - by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911284383 | ISBN 10: 191128438x

    Winner of an English PEN Award Named a ‘new book you need to read in 2020‘ by i-D Named a ‘best book of the year so far‘ by Tatler  Witty, inventive, and profound, Where the Wild Ladies Are is a contemporary feminist retelling of tr ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
    A Golden Age - by Tahmima Anam

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786898623 | ISBN 10: 1786898624

    A mother struggles to protect her children as Bangladesh fights for independence; winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award.   Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for ... more

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  • Cover image of book A People
    A People's History of Heaven - by Mathangi Subramanian

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786077615 | ISBN 10: 1786077612

    LONGLISTED FOR A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD, 2020  A dazzling tribute to the resilience and determination of a remarkable community of women.  In the sprawling Bangalore slum of Heaven, five girls - Muslim, Christian and Hindu; gay and straight - for ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
    The Night Tiger - by Yangsze Choo

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781787470477 | ISBN 10: 1787470474

    They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take the form of a man and walk among us...  In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
    Pachinko - by Min Jin Lee

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838930509 | ISBN 10: 1838930507

    Yeongdo, Korea 1911.   In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza ... more

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  • Cover image of book Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
    Before the Coffee Gets Cold - by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781529029581 | ISBN 10: 1529029589

    What would you change if you could go back in time?  In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experienc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
    The Memory Police - by Yoko Ogawa

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781846559495 | ISBN 10: 1846559499

    Discover a timely mystery about the loss of every day existence by one of Japan's greatest writers that featured in the Entertainment Weekly ‘Quarantine Book Club’.  Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lake Like a Mirror: Stories by Ho Sok Fong
    Lake Like a Mirror: Stories - by Ho Sok Fong

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781846276903 | ISBN 10: 184627690x

    A portrait of Malaysian society in nine stories, by an author described by critics as 'the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop'.   Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Broken Stars: Sixteen Stories from the New Frontiers of Chinese Science Fiction by Edited and translated by Ken Liu
    Broken Stars: Sixteen Stories from the New Frontiers of Chinese Science Fiction - by Edited and translated by Ken Liu

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788548120 | ISBN 10: 1788548124

    A new anthology of Chinese short-fiction by award winning author Ken Liu.  Here are sixteen short stories from China's groundbreaking SFF writers, edited and translated by award-winning author Ken Liu.  In Hugo award-winner Liu Cixin' ... more

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  • Cover image of book Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
    Convenience Store Woman - by Sayaka Murata

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781846276842 | ISBN 10: 1846276845

    Keiko has never really fitted in. At school and university people find her odd and her family worries she'll never be normal. To appease them, Keiko takes a job at a newly opened convenience store. Here, she finds peace and purpose in the simple, dai ... more

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  • Cover image of book Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
    Killing Commendatore - by Haruki Murakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784707330 | ISBN 10: 1784707333

    The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84.   In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous art ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leila by Prayaag Akbar
    Leila - by Prayaag Akbar

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571341320 | ISBN 10: 0571341322

    Shalini will never forget her daughter Leila's third birthday party: it was the last time she saw her alive.  Sixteen years have passed and Shalini's life is unrecognizable. Her husband gone: beaten and dragged from their home the night Leila ... more

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  • Cover image of book China Dream by Ma Jian
    China Dream - by Ma Jian

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784708696 | ISBN 10: 1784708690

    Blending fact with fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism.  After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting ... more

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  • Cover image of book Miracle on Cherry Hill by Sun-mi Hwang
    Miracle on Cherry Hill - by Sun-mi Hwang

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780349143354 | ISBN 10: 0349143358

    Celebrated bestselling author Sun-mi Hwang is back with a heartwarming new novel about renewal and friendship.  This is the story of a man named Kang Dae-su. His whole life is a miracle, rising from poverty to running a successful construction co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto
    Plastic Emotions - by Shiromi Pinto

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910312315 | ISBN 10: 1910312312

    “We architects must be idealists. We construct not just individual buildings, but whole cities. We plan cities, and in doing so, change lives.”  Plastic Emotions is inspired by the life of Minnette de Silva – a forgotten feminist icon and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita
    The Forest of Wool and Steel - by Natsu Miyashita

    £9.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780857525185 | ISBN 10: 0857525182

    What he experienced that day wasn’t life-changing... It was life-making.   Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the forests, dark and gleaming, that surround ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Chocolate Saints by Jeet Thayil
    The Book of Chocolate Saints - by Jeet Thayil

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571336111 | ISBN 10: 0571336116

    LONGLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE 2018   Francis Newton Xavier has lived a wild existence of excess in pursuit of his uncompromising aesthetic vision. His paintings and poems – which embody the flamboyant and decadent j ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
    The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - by Arundhati Roy

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241980767 | ISBN 10: 0241980763

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017   THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER and THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   The first novel in 20 years from the Booker-prize winning author of The God of Small Things.   The Ministry of Utmost Happiness tak ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke
    The Explosion Chronicles - by Yan Lianke

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784701925 | ISBN 10: 1784701920

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2017   With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded a thousand years ago by refugees fleeing a volcanic eruption. But in the post-Mao era, ... more

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  • Cover image of book If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura, translated by Eric Selland
    If Cats Disappeared From The World - by Genki Kawamura, translated by Eric Selland

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509889174 | ISBN 10: 1509889175

    Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, t ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
    White Chrysanthemum - by Mary Lynn Bracht

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784705459 | ISBN 10: 1784705454

    'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.'   Hana and her little sister Emi are part of an island community of haenyo, women who make their living from diving deep into the sea off the southernmost tip ... more

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  • Cover image of book English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee
    English, August: An Indian Story - by Upamanyu Chatterjee

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571345892 | ISBN 10: 0571345891

    Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job, which takes him to Madna – a town with the highest temperatures in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous by Manu Joseph
    Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous - by Manu Joseph

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912408108 | ISBN 10: 1912408104

    Bold, stylish and deceptively witty, Manu Joseph’s gripping new novel poses searching questions about political forces and religious division—with an ingenious twist.   On the day that Hindu nationalists and their controversial leader hav ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Devils
    The Devils' Dance - by Hamid Ismailov

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911284130 | ISBN 10: 1911284134

    On New Year’s Eve 1938, the writer Abdulla Qodiriy is taken from his home by the Soviet secret police and thrown into a Tashkent prison. There, to distract himself from the physical and psychological torment of beatings and mindless interrogations, ... more

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  • Cover image of book When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy
    When I Hit You - by Meena Kandasamy

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786491282 | ISBN 10: 1786491281

    LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018  Guardian’s Best Books of 2017 Daily Telegraph’s Best Books of 2017 Observer Best Books of 2017 Fina ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Maid
    The Maid's Room - by Fiona Mitchell

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473659599 | ISBN 10: 1473659590

    For readers of The Help and The Invention of Wings, a searing and sweeping debut novel that gives a new and unforgettable perspective on modern day domestic workers.   Set in the blistering heat of Singapore, The Maid's Room follows the live ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
    The Golden Legend - by Nadeem Aslam

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571330751 | ISBN 10: 0571330754

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018   For weeks, someone has been broadcasting people’s secrets from the minarets of the city’s mosques, striking fear into the hearts of Christians and Muslims alike. Then when shots ring out on the Grand ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
    Kitchen - by Banana Yoshimoto

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571342723 | ISBN 10: 0571342728

    Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film.  When Kitchen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fireworks by Angela Carter
    Fireworks - by Angela Carter

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784872984 | ISBN 10: 1784872989

    `I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.'   So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter's first major achiev ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
    Sweet Bean Paste - by Durian Sukegawa

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786071958 | ISBN 10: 1786071959

    ‘I’m in story heaven with this book.’ Cecelia Ahern, author of P.S. I Love You  A charming tale of friendship, love and loneliness in contemporary Japan.   Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blue Light Yokohama by Nicolás Obregón
    Blue Light Yokohama - by Nicolás Obregón

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781405926898 | ISBN 10: 1405926899

    Inspired by a blistering real-life murder, Blue Light Yokohama's Inspector Iwata is perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole.  THE MURDERER'S IN YOUR HOUSE... A family of four are found murdered in their own home. A painted black sun is left dr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto
    Moshi Moshi - by Banana Yoshimoto

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781640090156 | ISBN 10: 1640090150

    In Moshi Moshi, Yoshie’s much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her mother move to Shimo-kitazawa, a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets, quirky shops, and friendly resid ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel
    The Travelling Cat Chronicles - by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780857524195 | ISBN 10: 0857524194

    Recommended by thousands of international readers - the tender feelgood story of a man's journey around Japan with a streetcat. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami.  Includes specially commissioned line-drawings  It's not t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Selection Day by Aravind Adiga
    Selection Day - by Aravind Adiga

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509806492 | ISBN 10: 1509806490

    Selection Day is a captivating, witty novel by the Man Booker Prize winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga.   'The most exciting novelist writing in English today' A. N. Wilson   Manjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is goo ... more

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  • Cover image of book How I Became a North Korean by Krys Lee
    How I Became a North Korean - by Krys Lee

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571276233 | ISBN 10: 0571276237

    At the lawless border between North Korea and China, three young lives converge in the hope of a better future.   Yongju is an accomplished student from a prominent but recently disgraced family; Jangmi has had to fend for herself since childh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Notes Of A Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
    Notes Of A Crocodile - by Qiu Miaojin

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781681370767 | ISBN 10: 168137076x

    An NYRB Classics Original  Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan’s most prestig ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies
    The Fortunes - by Peter Ho Davies

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780340980255 | ISBN 10: 0340980257

    By the author of the Booker longlisted The Welsh Girl, a vibrant, powerful and iconoclastic novel telling the little-known story of the Chinese in America, and of America through its Chinese.   Ah Ling: son of a prostitute and a white 'ghost', ... more

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  • Cover image of book Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
    Men Without Women - by Haruki Murakami

    £16.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911215370 | ISBN 10: 191121537x

    'I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.'   Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear ... more

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  • Cover image of book Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
    Do Not Say We Have Nothing - by Madeleine Thien

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783782673 | ISBN 10: 1783782676

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016   In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming.   As her re ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi
    The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea - by Bandi

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781257548 | ISBN 10: 178125754x

    In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime.  Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 20 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam
    The Bones of Grace - by Tahmima Anam

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781847679789 | ISBN 10: 1847679781

    Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and the dark horrors of a ship-breaking yard. H ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lovers by Rod Nordland
    The Lovers - by Rod Nordland

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473607026 | ISBN 10: 1473607027

    A story of forbidden love.   Zakia and Mohammad Ali are a modern day Romeo and Juliet. Two young Afghan lovers - he a Shia, she a Sunni - who defied their families risking their lives in order to be together. "...a heartbreaking tale of ill ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki
    Spring Garden - by Tomoka Shibasaki

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782272700 | ISBN 10: 1782272704

    Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope.   Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in one of the few occupied apartments in his block, a block that is to be torn down as soon a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Killing Room by Peter May
    The Killing Room - by Peter May

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784291686 | ISBN 10: 1784291684

    Li Yan and Margaret Campbell travel to Shanghai: where a new ally, and a new enemy, await.   THE THIRD CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CHINA THRILLER, FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSE.   THE NEW CASE  Whe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little Aunt Crane by Geling Yan
    Little Aunt Crane - by Geling Yan

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099569633 | ISBN 10: 0099569639

    In the last days of World War II, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria has collapsed. As the Chinese move in, the elders of the Japanese settler village of Sakito decide to preserve their honour by killing all the villagers in an act of mass suicide. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction by Arunava Sinha & Pushpita Alam (Editors)
    The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction - by Arunava Sinha & Pushpita Alam (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905583805 | ISBN 10: 190558380x

    Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world - noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums - but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful and chaotically joyful places you ... more

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  • Cover image of book Human Acts by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
    Human Acts - by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846275975 | ISBN 10: 1846275970

    Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnecte ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
    The Sympathizer - by Viet Thanh Nguyen

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472151360 | ISBN 10: 1472151364

    A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, offering a unique perspective on the Vietnam war. Destined to become a modern classic.   WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels by Haruki Murakami
    Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels - by Haruki Murakami

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099590392 | ISBN 10: 0099590395

    Wind/Pinball includes Haruki Murakami�s first two novels, published back-to-back, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author.� If you�re the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent ki ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Painted Ocean by Gabriel Packard
    The Painted Ocean - by Gabriel Packard

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472151131 | ISBN 10: 1472151135

    Brick Lane meets Lord of the Flies: an ambitious page-turner and a true literary achievement.   When I was a little girl, my dad left me and my mum, and he never came back. And you're supposed to be gutted when that happens. But secretly I pre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
    Thirteen Ways of Looking - by Colum McCann

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408869857 | ISBN 10: 1408869853

    As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing.   It is a cold day in January when J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Up ... more

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  • Cover image of book In a Land of Paper Gods by Rebecca Mackenzie
    In a Land of Paper Gods - by Rebecca Mackenzie

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472224224 | ISBN 10: 1472224221

    A gorgeous literary debut in the tradition of The Poisonwood Bible about a school for the children of British missionaries in China, at the top of a mountain, at the edge of the Second World War  Jiangxi Province, China, 1941  Atop th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dog Who Dared to Dream by Sun-mi Hwang
    The Dog Who Dared to Dream - by Sun-mi Hwang

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349142104 | ISBN 10: 0349142106

    This is the story of a dog named Scraggly.  Born an outsider because of her distinctive appearance, she spends most of her days in the sun-filled yard of her owner's house. Scraggly has dreams and aspirations just like the rest of us. But each w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
    Sleeping on Jupiter - by Anuradha Roy

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781848666900 | ISBN 10: 184866690x

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015   A stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love and violence in the modern world.   A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
    Beauty is a Wound - by Eka Kurniawan

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782272434 | ISBN 10: 1782272437

    A colour-drenched epic set in Indonesia, filled with vivid sex and violence, from the Man Booker International Prize longlisted author. 'A literary child of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie' New York Review of Books 'A howling master ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa
    Ice Candy Man - by Bapsi Sidhwa

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781907970634 | ISBN 10: 1907970630

    Eight-year-old Lenny is crippled by polio but inquisitive and spirited. She spends her days in the park with her beloved Ayah, surrounded by a plethora of other park-goers: theres the Sikh zoo-keeper, the Pathan, strong Imman Din, and Ice-Candy Man ... more

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  • Cover image of book Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss
    Signs for Lost Children - by Sarah Moss

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847089137 | ISBN 10: 1847089135

    Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the ins ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beijing Comrades by Bei Tong, translated by Scott E. Myers
    Beijing Comrades - by Bei Tong, translated by Scott E. Myers

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781558619074 | ISBN 10: 1558619070

    When Handong, a ruthless and wealthy businessman, is introduced to Lan Yu, a nave, working-class architectural student the attraction is all consuming.   Arrogant and privileged, Handong is unsettled by this desire, while Lan Yu quietly sub ... more

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  • Cover image of book Traces of Sandalwood by Anna Soler-Pont and Asha Mir
    Traces of Sandalwood - by Anna Soler-Pont and Asha Mir

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789462380578 | ISBN 10: 9462380570

    Muna, a young Indian orphan, is working in a carpet factory in Bombay. She cannot forget about her sister Sita, from whom she was separated. Sita, who lives in an orphanage in the same city, doesnt remember her older sister and dreams about having a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
    Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul - by Deborah Rodriguez

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780751561463 | ISBN 10: 0751561460

    The brand new novel from the author of the Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul. Six women forever joined by a little cafe in Kabul. Sunny, former proprietor of the Little Coffee Shop and new owner of the Screaming ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Vegetarian by Han Kang
    The Vegetarian - by Han Kang

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846276033 | ISBN 10: 1846276039

    Winner: The Man Booker International Prize 2016 Translated by Deborah Smith  Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai
    The Hungry Ghosts - by Shyam Selvadurai

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846592003 | ISBN 10: 1846592003

    In Buddhist myth, those that have desired too much during their lifetime may be reborn as hungry ghosts spirits with a stomach so large they can never be full.   Six-year-old Shivan is boarded up in his grandmothers mansion in Sri Lanka. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The House of Hidden Mothers by Meera Syal
    The House of Hidden Mothers - by Meera Syal

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781862300538 | ISBN 10: 1862300534

    How far would you go to get the life you can't have?   Shyama, aged forty-eight, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together.   Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams o ... more

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  • Cover image of book She Will Build Him a City by Raj Kamal Jha
    She Will Build Him a City - by Raj Kamal Jha

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408855072 | ISBN 10: 1408855070

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE  As night falls in Delhi a mother spins tales from her past for her sleeping daughter. Her now grown-up child is a puzzle with a million pieces whom she hopes, through her words and her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Let Him Know - by Sandip Roy

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408856666 | ISBN 10: 1408856662

    In a boxy apartment building in an American university town, Romola Mitra, a young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds the l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan
    Man Tiger - by Eka Kurniawan

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781688595 | ISBN 10: 1781688591

    Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 A wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars exc ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Point Two Billion by Mahesh Rao
    One Point Two Billion - by Mahesh Rao

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781907970337 | ISBN 10: 1907970339

    1.2 billion people live in India, making it one of the most populous places on earth. Its a nation of extremes, exhilarating in its diversity, and torn between ancient traditions and the shock of modernity.  Mahesh Rao writes about the tapestry ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling
    Wailing Ghosts - by Pu Songling

    £0.80   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141398167 | ISBN 10: 0141398167

    '...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'  Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast'   Introducing Little Black ... more

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  • Cover image of book Season of the Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam
    Season of the Rainbirds - by Nadeem Aslam

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571313303 | ISBN 10: 0571313302

    The highly acclaimed and Betty Trask Award winning debut from the author of Maps for Lost Lovers.   A sack of letters lost in a train crash nineteen years previously has mysteriously reappeared, and the inhabitants of a small town in Pakistan ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
    The Year of the Runaways - by Sunjeev Sahota

    £14.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447241645 | ISBN 10: 1447241649

    The heart-stopping new book from one of Granta's Best of British Novelists 2013  Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015  The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by ci ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Dark by Mai Jia
    In the Dark - by Mai Jia

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141391458 | ISBN 10: 0141391456

    'Cracking another country's cipher is an undercover fight to the death...'   Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at 'Unit 701', China's secret services, operate in a dark, shadowy world. There is the 'wind-listener', a blind surveillanc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Scatter Here is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer
    The Scatter Here is Too Great - by Bilal Tanweer

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099589846 | ISBN 10: 0099589842

    A love letter to Karachi, told by the people linked together by one devastating event.   Shortlisted for the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Winner of the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2014   The Scatter Here is Too Great he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frog by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt
    Frog - by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241967324 | ISBN 10: 0241967325

    Frog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.   Gugu is beautiful, charismatic and of an unimpeachable political background. A respected midwife, she combines modern ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thirst by Kerry Hudson
    Thirst - by Kerry Hudson

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099589891 | ISBN 10: 0099589893

    An unconventional, will-they-wont-they love story, that takes us from London to Siberia, and from hope to heartbreak, and back again.   The beginning of a relationship is usually all about getting to know each other, sharing stories far into t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction by Jim Hinks, Masashi Matsuie & Michael Emmerich (Editors)
    The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction - by Jim Hinks, Masashi Matsuie & Michael Emmerich (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781905583577 | ISBN 10: 1905583575

    Featuring Banana Yoshimoto, Osamu Hashimoto, Toshiyuki Horie, Shūichi Yoshida, Hiromi Kawakami, Nao-Cola Yamazaki, Hitomi Kanehara, Hideo Furukawa, Kaori Ekuni & Mitsuyo Kakuta A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
    Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - by Haruki Murakami

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099590378 | ISBN 10: 0099590379

    A mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestseller author of Norwegian Wood. Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning red pine ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Gold Leaves by Mirza Waheed
    The Book of Gold Leaves - by Mirza Waheed

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241970829 | ISBN 10: 0241970822

    Mirza Waheed's extraordinary new novel The Book of Gold Leaves is a heartbreaking love story set in war-torn Kashmir. In an ancient house in the city of Srinagar, Faiz paints exquisite Papier Mache pencil boxes for tourists. Evening is beginning ... more

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  • Cover image of book Princess Bari by Hwang Sok-yong
    Princess Bari - by Hwang Sok-yong

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781859641743 | ISBN 10: 1859641741

    In a drab North Korean city, a seventh daughter is born to a couple longing for a son. Abandoned hours after her birth, she is eventually rescued by her grandmother. The old woman names the child Bari, after a legend telling of a forsaken princess wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Incarnations by Susan Barker
    The Incarnations - by Susan Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784160005 | ISBN 10: 1784160008

    Beijing, 2008, the Olympics are coming, but as taxi driver Wang circles the citys congested streets, he feels barely alive. His daily grind is suddenly interrupted when he finds a letter in the sunshade of his cab. Someone is watching him. Someone w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher by Ahn Do-hyeon
    The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher - by Ahn Do-hyeon

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447269991 | ISBN 10: 1447269993

    A life-affirming, inspirational modern fable about love, life and daring to be different. The life of the salmon is a predictable one: swimming upstream to the place of its birth to spawn, and then to die. This is the story of a salmon whose silv ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy
    The Gypsy Goddess - by Meena Kandasamy

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782391807 | ISBN 10: 1782391800

    Tamil Nadu, 1968. Village landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or suffer beatings as punishment. In the misery of their daily lives it is little wonder that the Communist Party begins to gain tra ... more

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  • Cover image of book Family Life by Akhil Sharma
    Family Life - by Akhil Sharma

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571224548 | ISBN 10: 0571224547

    For eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Delhi in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing cricket in the street. Yet, everything changes when their father finds a j ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Spice Box Letters by Eve Makis
    The Spice Box Letters - by Eve Makis

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910124086 | ISBN 10: 1910124087

    Katerina inherits a scented, wooden spice box after her grandmother Mariam dies. It contains letters and a diary, written in Armenian. As she pieces together her family story, Katerina learns that Mariam's childhood was shattered by the Armenian trag ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fallout by Paul Thomas
    Fallout - by Paul Thomas

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908524492 | ISBN 10: 1908524499

    Tito Ihaka, the unkempt, overweight Maori cop was demoted to Sergeant due to insubordination and pigheadedness. He investigates the unsolved killing of 17 year old girl at an election night party in a ritzy villa near Auckland. Ihaka is also embroile ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Country by Kalyan Ray
    No Country - by Kalyan Ray

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408843345 | ISBN 10: 140884334x

    In November 1989, an Indian couple are discovered murdered in a small town in upstate New York. They lie together as though just disengaged from a long embrace. Yet their murder has been two centuries in the making.   County Sligo, Ireland, 18 ... more

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  • Cover image of book A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
    A God in Every Stone - by Kamila Shamsie

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408847237 | ISBN 10: 140884723x

    July 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land, surrounded by figs and cypresses. Soon she will discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and the ecstasy of love. Thousands of miles away a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
    The Lives of Others - by Neel Mukherjee

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099554486 | ISBN 10: 0099554488

    An epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in Calcutta exploring a family that is decaying as the society around it fractures, and one young man who tries to reimagine his place in the world. ***Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014*** ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pearl That Broke its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
    The Pearl That Broke its Shell - by Nadia Hashimi

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780062244765 | ISBN 10: 0062244760

    Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lis ... more

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  • Cover image of book Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto
    Em and the Big Hoom - by Jerry Pinto

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241966518 | ISBN 10: 0241966515

    Brilliantly comic and almost unbearably moving, Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom is one of the most powerful and original fiction debuts of recent years. In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her family - is by turns flamboyant, maniaca ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
    In the Light of What We Know - by Zia Haider Rahman

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447231233 | ISBN 10: 1447231236

    A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century. One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surpr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
    Arctic Summer - by Damon Galgut

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782391593 | ISBN 10: 1782391592

    In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the City of Gold and Silver by Keniz Mourad
    In the City of Gold and Silver - by Keniz Mourad

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781609452278 | ISBN 10: 1609452275

    Here is the long-forgotten story of Begum Hazrat Mahal, Queen of Awadh and the soul of the Indian revolt against the British, brought to vivid life by a writer whose own story reads like a novel. Begum was an orphan and a poetess who captured th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Night Boat by Alan Spence
    Night Boat - by Alan Spence

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780857868541 | ISBN 10: 0857868543

    On the side of a mountain, in eighteenth century Japan, sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become the world's most famous teacher of zen. This is no ... more

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  • Cover image of book Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
    Untouchable - by Mulk Raj Anand

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141393605 | ISBN 10: 0141393602

    Mulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi. Bakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet none the less he is an Untouchable - an outca ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Case of the Love Commandos by Tarquin Hall
    The Case of the Love Commandos - by Tarquin Hall

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099561880 | ISBN 10: 0099561883

    The wonderful fourth outing for Delhi detective Vish Puri ('the Indian Hercule Poirot' Financial Times).   When Indias Love Commandos rescue a young woman from a high-caste family who has been forbidden from marrying an untouchable, she looks ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blind Man
    The Blind Man's Garden - by Nadeem Aslam

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571287949 | ISBN 10: 0571287948

    From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a story of war, of one family's losses, and of the simplest, most enduring human impulses.   Jeo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Children by Roopa Farooki
    The Good Children - by Roopa Farooki

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780755383443 | ISBN 10: 0755383443

    From the twice Orange Prize Longlisted author of Bitter Sweets and The Flying Man. Perfect for any reader of Jhumpa Lahiri and Khamila Shamsie.   Leaving home is one thing. Surviving is another.   1940s Lahore, the Punjab. Two brother ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
    The Guest Cat - by Takashi Hiraide

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447279402 | ISBN 10: 1447279409

    An international bestseller. A charming and wonderful novel about a cat that brings joy into a couple's life.  The New York Times bestseller.  A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beggar
    Beggar's Feast - by Randy Boyagoda

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241001547 | ISBN 10: 0241001544

    Randy Boyagoda's Beggar's Feast is a tour de force of a novel set in Sri Lanka about a man living in defiance of fate.   Sam Kandy, born in 1899 in a poor village in the heart of Ceylon and abandoned by his family ten years later at the gates ... more

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  • Cover image of book Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang
    Half a Lifelong Romance - by Eileen Chang

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141189390 | ISBN 10: 0141189398

    From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai.   Manjing is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shujun, the son ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shadow of the Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto
    The Shadow of the Crescent Moon - by Fatima Bhutto

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241965627 | ISBN 10: 0241965624

    Fatima Bhutto's stunning debut novel The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, begins and ends one rain swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border.   Three brothers meet for breakfast. Soon aft ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
    The Lowland - by Jhumpa Lahiri

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408843543 | ISBN 10: 1408843544

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 and the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013.   From Subhashs earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-stre ... more

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  • Cover image of book The City of Devi by Manil Suri
    The City of Devi - by Manil Suri

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408833933 | ISBN 10: 140883393x

    Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets of Mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclear annihilation. She is looking for her physicist husband Karun, who has been missing for over a fortnight. She is soon joined on her q ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
    Five Star Billionaire - by Tash Aw

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007494187 | ISBN 10: 0007494181

    Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to Chinas most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel.   Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide with new ambi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino
    The Goddess Chronicle - by Natsuo Kirino

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782111603 | ISBN 10: 1782111603

    In a place like no other, on an island in the shape of a tear drop, two sisters are born into a family of the oracle. Kamikuu, with creamy skin and almond eyes, is admired far and wide; Namima, small but headstrong, learns to live in her sister's sha ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bathing Women by Tie Ning
    The Bathing Women - by Tie Ning

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007489886 | ISBN 10: 0007489889

    Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and a modern Chinese classic with over one million copies sold.  Sisters Tiao and Fan grew up in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution where they witnessed ritual humiliation and suffering. They als ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang
    The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly - by Sun-mi Hwang

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780745343 | ISBN 10: 1780745346

    This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
    How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - by Mohsin Hamid

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241144671 | ISBN 10: 0241144671

    Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a bold new novel for the modern world. In this keenly-awaited follow-up to his bestselling The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid confirms his place as a radically inventive story-tell ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sea of Innocence by Kishwar Desai
    The Sea of Innocence - by Kishwar Desai

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781471101441 | ISBN 10: 1471101444

    Goa, south India. A beautiful holiday hideaway where hippies and backpackers while away the hours. But beneath the clear blue skies lies a dirty secret...  Simran Singh is desperate for a break and some time away from her busy job as a social w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian
    The Last Quarter of the Moon - by Chi Zijian

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099555650 | ISBN 10: 0099555654

    In this sweeping epic, full of love and loss, a woman from one of the last remote reindeer-herding tribes of northeastern China tells the story of her family and the last century of her country's history. A long-time confidante of the rain and sno ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Orphan Master
    The Orphan Master's Son - by Adam Johnson

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780552778251 | ISBN 10: 0552778257

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013   Pak Jun Do knows he is special. He knows he must be the son of the master of the orphanage, not some kid dumped by his parents it was obvious from the way his father singled him out for beatin ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh
    One Thousand and One Nights - by Hanan Al-Shaykh

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408827765 | ISBN 10: 140882776x

    One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his wife's orgies, King Shahrayar vows to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. To su ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hope Factory by Lavanya Sankaran
    The Hope Factory - by Lavanya Sankaran

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780755327898 | ISBN 10: 0755327896

    Where innocence, deceit and love collide. Anand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that's how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New India, neither of these i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
    The Garden of Evening Mists - by Tan Twan Eng

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781782110187 | ISBN 10: 1782110186

    The International Bestseller Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2013 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 "With ravishing sensuousness, it conjures up the lush landscapes and ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Woman and Springtime by B.W. Jones
    All Woman and Springtime - by B.W. Jones

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780222912 | ISBN 10: 1780222912

    Gi lives behind North Korea's iron curtain under the watchful eye of Dear Leader. As an orphan, growing up on a diet of thin soup and propaganda, life is a constant struggle against hunger and fear. But when she meets headstrong Il-sun, tender Gi fin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Village by Nikita Lalwani
    The Village - by Nikita Lalwani

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141030401 | ISBN 10: 0141030402

    The Village by Nikita Lalwani is a disturbing and utterly gripping modern morality tale set in contemporary India.   On a winter morning Ray Bhullar arrives at the gates of an Indian village. She is here to make a film. But this will be no o ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
    A Tale for the Time Being - by Ruth Ozeki

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857867971 | ISBN 10: 0857867970

    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. 'Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you.' Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
    Scenes from Early Life - by Philip Hensher

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780007450107 | ISBN 10: 0007450109

    Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of King of the Badgers and the Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency.   I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my au ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
    The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul - by Deborah Rodriguez

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780751550405 | ISBN 10: 075155040x

    The internationally bestselling novel about a little cafe in Kabul, and the five extraordinary women who meet there - as if Maeve Binchy had written The Kite Runner.   In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
    Narcopolis - by Jeet Thayil

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571275786 | ISBN 10: 0571275788

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE. Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick and potent. A beautiful young woman leans to hold a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her dark eyes. Around h ... more

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  • Cover image of book French Sahib by Pierre Freha
    French Sahib - by Pierre Freha

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9789380905266 | ISBN 10: 9380905262

    What happens when a Frenchman falls in love with a young Indian guy? Set in India with a French protagonist, and written by a Frenchman, French Sahib is a French-Indian love story revealing the taboos of Indian society and the hypocrisies of Fre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vulture Peak by John Burdett
    Vulture Peak - by John Burdett

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781472100986 | ISBN 10: 1472100980

    The fifth Bangkok novel featuring Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the former Buddhist monk.   Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police offic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freshta by Petra Prochzkov, translated by  Julia Sherwood
    Freshta - by Petra Prochzkov, translated by Julia Sherwood

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780957132641 | ISBN 10: 0957132646

    Welcome to Kabul: one family, countless secrets.   When Herra, a Russian-Tadjik woman, falls in love with Nadir, an Afghan, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
    Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard - by Kiran Desai

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571284047 | ISBN 10: 0571284043

    Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud parents that their son was destined for greatness. Twenty years of fai ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under the Hawthorn Tree by Ai Mi
    Under the Hawthorn Tree - by Ai Mi

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844087037 | ISBN 10: 1844087034

    A tragic love story set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, and a major film from the director of House of Flying Daggers.   Jingqiu, an innocent young woman from a politically questionable family in the city, is selected as one o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif
    Our Lady of Alice Bhatti - by Mohammed Hanif

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099516750 | ISBN 10: 0099516756

    From the author of the award-winning, critically-acclaimed debut, A Case of Exploding Mangoes.  The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments in Karachi are looking for a miracle. Junior nurse, ex-prisoner and part-time healer Al ... more

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  • Cover image of book 1Q84: Books 1 and 2 by Haruki Murakami
    1Q84: Books 1 and 2 - by Haruki Murakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099549062 | ISBN 10: 0099549069

    The year is 1Q84.  This is the real world, there is no doubt about that.   But in this world, there are two moons in the sky.   In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leela
    Leela's Book - by Alice Albinia

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099548492 | ISBN 10: 0099548496

    Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Leela - alluring, taciturn, haunted - is moving back to Delhi after years of exile in New York. She knows her return will disrupt precariously balanced lives. Twenty years ago her sister M ... more

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  • Cover image of book Drifting House by Krys Lee
    Drifting House - by Krys Lee

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571276202 | ISBN 10: 0571276202

    A dazzling debut story collection from Korean-American writer Krys Lee.   Alternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through seventy years of turbulent, post-World War II history in their homeland and the communities of Korean immigra ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ru by Kim Thuy
    Ru - by Kim Thuy

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846685484 | ISBN 10: 1846685486

    A book of rare beauty: Ru is a lullaby of Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.   Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, and money. Kim Thuy's Ru is literature a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
    Dream of Ding Village - by Yan Lianke

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780332628 | ISBN 10: 1780332629

    China's most controversial novelist on one of the biggest scandals in recent Chinese history - his defining work.  Told through the eyes of Xiao Qiang, a young boy killed by his family's neighbours, this seminal novel tells the tragic and shocki ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka
    Chinaman - by Shehan Karunatilaka

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099555681 | ISBN 10: 0099555689

    One of the most acclaimed debuts of the year - a rumbustuous, brilliant novel about Sri Lanka, cricket and the search for a legendary sportsman. Retired sportswriter WG Karunasena is dying. He will spend his final months drinking arrack, maki ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
    The Beauty of Humanity Movement - by Camilla Gibb

    £17.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781848877948 | ISBN 10: 1848877943

    Camilla Gibb returns to form with the stunningly evocative The Beauty of Humanity Movement, a novel of contemporary Vietnam, momentous change, and families defined not by blood, but by the heart.  They say that the history of Vietnam can ... more

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  • Cover image of book Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
    Please Look After Mother - by Kyung-Sook Shin

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780753828182 | ISBN 10: 0753828189

    Combining a unique setting with universal themes, Please Look After Mother is a beautifully rendered novel about sacrifice, guilt, and the ties of family love.  Please Look After Mother is the story of So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has l ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed
    The Collaborator - by Mirza Waheed

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141048581 | ISBN 10: 0141048581

    It is Kashmir in the early 1990s and war has finally reached the isolated village of Nowgam close to the Pakistan border. Indian soldiers appear as if from nowhere to hunt for militants on the run. Four teenage boys, who used to spend their afternoon ... more

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  • Cover image of book Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
    Last Man in Tower - by Aravind Adiga

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781848875180 | ISBN 10: 1848875185

    The magnificent new novel from the million-selling Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger: one of the most eagerly anticipated literary novels of 2011, 'a kaleidoscopic portrait of a changing Mumbai' Guardian Best Books of 2011 As ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
    In the Sea There are Crocodiles - by Fabio Geda

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099555452 | ISBN 10: 009955545x

    A bestseller in Italy, a beautiful, heartbreaking novel based on the true story of an Afghan boys journey in search of safety. Recommended by PEN One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollahs mother tells him three things: do ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman
    A Disobedient Girl - by Ru Freeman

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141040073 | ISBN 10: 0141040076

    Since her days in the orphanage, Latha has been a companion and servant to Thara, a more fortunate girl her own age. But since her trip to the hill country when she caught her first glimpse of a rose, Latha has known she was destined for a better lif ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wedding Wallah by Farahad Zama
    The Wedding Wallah - by Farahad Zama

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780349122687 | ISBN 10: 0349122687

    Mr Alis flourishing marriage bureau seems to have chalked up another success when his ward, Pari, receives a surprise proposal from a rich, handsome aristocrat. But why is the boys family so keen to get him married to Pari - an orphan, a widow, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gendarme by Mark Musitian
    The Gendarme - by Mark Musitian

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781851688395 | ISBN 10: 1851688390

    An extraordinarily haunting novel of identity and remembrance, love and forgiveness. Emet Conn is an old man on the verge of senility, a feisty World War 1 veteran who suffered amnesia during the war. Now at the end of his life, he suddenly f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
    Moth Smoke - by Mohsin Hamid

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241953938 | ISBN 10: 0241953936

    In Lahore, Daru Shezad is a junior banker with a hashish habit. When his old friend Ozi moves back to Pakistan, Daru wants to be happy for him. Ozi has everything: a beautiful wife and child, an expensive foreign education - and a corrupt father who ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi
    The Pleasure Seekers - by Tishani Doshi

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408809839 | ISBN 10: 1408809834

    August, 1968: Babo Patel arrives in London from Madras, with curly hair, jhill mill teeth and dreams of becoming a success. When he meets the beautiful, auburn-haired Sin Jones, he falls in love instantly. She, like him, is in search of something bi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone
    The Road to Wanting - by Wendy Law-Yone

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099535980 | ISBN 10: 009953598x

    Na Ga was always in search of a better life. But now she sits, alone, in a hotel room in Wanting, a godforsaken town on the Chinese-Burmese border. Plucked from her wild life as a rural eel-catcher, Na Ga is first abandoned by her would-be rescuers i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cloud Messenger by Aamer Hussein
    The Cloud Messenger - by Aamer Hussein

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846590894 | ISBN 10: 1846590892

    London, that distant rainy place his father lived in once, is where Mehran finds himself after leaving Karachi. And it is there that his adult life unfolds: he discovers the joys of poetry, faces the trials of love and work and spends his dreaming ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where the Serpent Lives by Ruth Padel
    Where the Serpent Lives - by Ruth Padel

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780349122328 | ISBN 10: 0349122326

    A family in crisis - and the wider world of wildlife in crisis too. Rosamund, unable to communicate with her philandering husband or teenage son, alienated from her zoologist father, feels cut off also from the jungle world of her Indian childhood. W ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
    The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet - by David Mitchell

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780340921586 | ISBN 10: 0340921587

    Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph
    Saraswati Park - by Anjali Joseph

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007360789 | ISBN 10: 0007360789

    A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author recently chosen as one of the Telegraphs 20 under 40 best UK writers.  Famous for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such space works ... more

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  • Cover image of book K: the Art of Love by Hong Ying
    K: the Art of Love - by Hong Ying

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241950692 | ISBN 10: 0241950694

    China, 1930s. Julian Bell, son of the Bloomsbury set's Vanessa, is newly arrived in Peking. In search of fresh experiences, he encounters the beautiful, intelligent and deeply erotic Lin Cheng. Though Lin is wife to a university professor, their pass ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
    The Shadow Lines - by Amitav Ghosh

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848544178 | ISBN 10: 1848544170

    A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others an intoxicating older cousin, a grandmother who weaves stories from the past and a family in London whose lives are intertwined with his.& ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
    The Surrendered - by Chang-rae Lee

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780349122977 | ISBN 10: 0349122970

    June Han has forged a life thousands of miles from her birthplace: she has built a business in New York, survived a husband, borne a child. But her past holds more secrets than she has ever been able to tell, and thirty years after her escape from wa ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
    The Kite Runner - by Khaled Hosseini

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408824856 | ISBN 10: 140882485x

    Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to gain the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him - for he always helps Amir - but this ... more

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  • Cover image of book Revenge by Taslima Nasrin, translated by Honor Moore
    Revenge - by Taslima Nasrin, translated by Honor Moore

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781558616592 | ISBN 10: 1558616594

    Revenge is a delicious novel about getting even, from one of the most controversial and internationally acclaimed writers of her generation.  In modern Bangladesh, Jhumur marries for love and imagines life with her husband, Haroon, will conti ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Swimmer by Roma Tearne
    The Swimmer - by Roma Tearne

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007301591 | ISBN 10: 0007301596

    A gripping, captivating novel about love, loss and what home really means.  Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father and since then, she has struggled to find l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Repeat After Me by Rachel DeWoskin
    Repeat After Me - by Rachel DeWoskin

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780715638996 | ISBN 10: 0715638998

    Aysha, a twenty-two-year-old New Yorker, is beginning to put the pieces of her life back in place after a nervous breakdown. Teaching an adult education class, she meets a young Chinese student named Da Ge - tortured, charismatic and just as unstable ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu, translated by Howard Goldblatt
    Three Sisters - by Bi Feiyu, translated by Howard Goldblatt

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846590238 | ISBN 10: 184659023x

    Three sisters struggle to change the course of their destinies, in a China that does not belong to them. Yumi uses her dignity, Yuxiu her seductive powers, and Yuyang her desire for success.  This breathtaking story vividly captures the demon ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
    The Wish Maker - by Ali Sethi

    £11.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141037103 | ISBN 10: 0141037105

    Zaki has returned home to Pakistan...  His childhood friend and cousin Samar is getting married, and he's come to wish her happiness for the future. But returning to the family home in Lahore - crammed as it is with relatives - Zaki is conf ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
    Shanghai Girls - by Lisa See

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801123 | ISBN 10: 1408801124

    Two sisters, a world at war and one life-changing secret.  Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chowringhee by Sankar
    Chowringhee - by Sankar

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781843549147 | ISBN 10: 184354914x

    A much loved and endlessly readable classic of Indian literature, finally available in English for the first time.  Chowringhee, first published in Bengali in 1962, is a sprawling saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Writing on My Forehead by Nafisa Haji
    The Writing on My Forehead - by Nafisa Haji

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099536741 | ISBN 10: 0099536749

    Free-spirited and rebellious, Saira has grown up in California with her beautiful, obedient sister Ameena. From childhood, she has broken the boundaries between her desire for independence and her familys traditions in particular, her Bombay-bred ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories by Edited by Theodore W. Goossen
    The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories - by Edited by Theodore W. Goossen

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780199583195 | ISBN 10: 0199583196

    This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western lite ... more

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  • Cover image of book Falling to Heaven by Jeanne Peterson
    Falling to Heaven - by Jeanne Peterson

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781851687367 | ISBN 10: 185168736x

    Tibet, 1954. The highest pass of the Himalayas is enveloped in silence save the flapping of prayer flags. Seven thousand feet below, two Americans travellingon foot arrive in the remote town of Shigatse, intending to make it their new home. Steeped i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Lotus by Pai Kit Fai
    Red Lotus - by Pai Kit Fai

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780751538984 | ISBN 10: 0751538981

    Yip Mann, an elderly spice farmer, should have known better than to purchase a fifteen-year-old cherry-girl as his concubine, especially one beautiful enough to be seen as Chien Gum - comparable to a thousand pieces of gold. But surely he deserves s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie
    Once on a Moonless Night - by Dai Sijie

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099521327 | ISBN 10: 0099521326

    A young French woman in Peking in the late 1970s interprets between Chinese professors and Bertolucci for his film The Last Emperor. Afterwards, she follows a disgruntled old professor who tells her about a text believed to be taken directly from Bud ... more

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  • Cover image of book UFO in Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo
    UFO in Her Eyes - by Xiaolu Guo

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099526674 | ISBN 10: 0099526670

    Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is turned upside down when she sights a UFThing a spinning plate in the sky and helps th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne
    Brixton Beach - by Roma Tearne

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007301560 | ISBN 10: 0007301561

    Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss. London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs br ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
    Sea of Poppies - by Amitav Ghosh

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780719568978 | ISBN 10: 0719568978

    At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonia ... more

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  • Cover image of book Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
    Burnt Shadows - by Kamila Shamsie

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781408800874 | ISBN 10: 140880087x

    Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009, this is a powerful, sweeping epic crossing generations, cultures and continents. In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantnamo Bay. How did it come ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Assassin by M.G. Vassanji
    The Assassin - by M.G. Vassanji

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847672834 | ISBN 10: 1847672833

    Karsan Dargawalla, heir to the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi begins to tell the story of his family and the destroyed shrine in the aftermath of the violence that gripped western India in 2002. His tale begins in the 1960s, and young Kar ... more

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  • Cover image of book Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
    Evening is the Whole Day - by Preeta Samarasan

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007271894 | ISBN 10: 0007271891

    A spellbinding, exuberant first novel, set in Malaysia, that introduces us to a prosperous Indian immigrant family, as it slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets.  When the family's servant girl, Chellam, is dismissed from the big house ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
    Unaccustomed Earth - by Jhumpa Lahiri

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596592 | ISBN 10: 074759659x

    The Number One New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake.  Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book.  Beginning in America, and spilling back over m ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
    A Case of Exploding Mangoes - by Mohammed Hanif

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099516743 | ISBN 10: 0099516748

    There is an ancient saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988? ... more

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  • Cover image of book One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lairi and 21 other authors
    One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lairi and 21 other authors

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906523138 | ISBN 10: 1906523134

    A teenage Nigerian girl struggles to shed her cultural roots in the US... An Inuit girl is rowed by her parents to the shore, unaware of the fate that awaits her... A Filipina maid in Hong Kong gets entangled with her employer... The lover of an Afri ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Age of Shiva by Manil Suri
    The Age of Shiva - by Manil Suri

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596394 | ISBN 10: 0747596395

    India, 1955. As the scars of Partition are beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured: in the spotlight is Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. But when Meera's reveri ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
    The Wasted Vigil - by Nadeem Aslam

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571238804 | ISBN 10: 0571238807

    'This land and its killing epochs.' Nadeem Aslam's dazzling new novel takes place in modern-day Afghanistan. A Russian woman named Lara arrives at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in an old perfume factory in the sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Miss Chopsticks by Xinran
    Miss Chopsticks - by Xinran

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099501534 | ISBN 10: 0099501538

    From the author of the bestselling The Good Women of China comes the uplifting story of three sisters who, like so many migrant workers in todays China, leave their peasant community to seek their fortune in the big city.  The Li sisters don ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Marriage Proposal by Celestine Hitiura  Vaite
    The Marriage Proposal - by Celestine Hitiura Vaite

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099490128 | ISBN 10: 0099490129

    Materena Mahi likes movies about love. And after fourteen years with Pito, the father of her three children, she wants a ring on her finger and a framed wedding certificate on the wall. But Pito does not like movies about love. He likes movies with a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diamond Dove by Adrian Hyland
    Diamond Dove - by Adrian Hyland

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847243775 | ISBN 10: 1847243770

    "...a wonderfully original setting for a thriller... a brilliant portriat of different cultures attempting to coexist in a climate of ignorance, taboos, racism and greed. Emily's investigations take her to the heart of the conflict and lead to a deno ... more

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  • Cover image of book Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong
    Binu and the Great Wall - by Su Tong

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847670625 | ISBN 10: 1847670628

    Binu and the Great Wall tells an unforgettable story of passion, hardship and magical adventure.  When her husband disappears from their home, Binu knows that he has been taken against his will. She decides that she must save him.  W ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mosquito by Roma Tearne
    Mosquito - by Roma Tearne

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007233663 | ISBN 10: 0007233663

    A lyrical and profoundly moving story of love, loss and civil war, set in Sri Lanka, London and Venice.  When author Theo Samarajeeva returns to his native Sri Lanka after his wife's death, he hopes to escape his gnawing loss amid the lush lands ... more

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  • Cover image of book Animal
    Animal's People - by Indra Sinha

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781416526278 | ISBN 10: 1416526277

    'I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when small say I walked on two feet just like a human being.....' Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gypsy Masala by Preethi Nair
    Gypsy Masala - by Preethi Nair

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007305018 | ISBN 10: 000730501x

    "Tell me about your dreams, and if you have dared to follow them..."   This is the challenge for three members of the Vishavan family. Evita (real name Molu, but she's always had a tendency towards the theatrical) is stuck in a 9-to-5 job u ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Man Falling by Mike Stocks
    White Man Falling - by Mike Stocks

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846880360 | ISBN 10: 184688036x

    Police sub-inspector Swami has lost his job after suffering a stroke while beating up a very guilty suspect. He can no longer talk properly, command the respect of his community, or give his six daughters the bankrupting dowries they deserve - and hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
    Confessions of a Mask - by Yukio Mishima

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780720612851 | ISBN 10: 0720612853

    This autobiographical novel, regarded as Mishimas finest book, is the haunting story of a Japanese boys development toward a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War.   Detailing his progress from an isolated childhood thro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lust, Caution: And Other Stories by Eileen Chang
    Lust, Caution: And Other Stories - by Eileen Chang

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141034386 | ISBN 10: 0141034386

    In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime. Jiazhis life is a front. A pa ... more

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  • Cover image of book When Memory Dies by A. Sivanandan
    When Memory Dies - by A. Sivanandan

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905147595 | ISBN 10: 1905147597

    Winner of the Sagittarius Prize. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. A powerful three-generational saga of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear by Atiq Rahimi
    A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear - by Atiq Rahimi

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099461968 | ISBN 10: 009946196x

    In his extraordinary novella Earth and Ashes (now a feature film), Atiq Rahimi distilled all the suffering of the Afghan people into the heart-breaking story of a grandfather seeking revenge for his daughters death. In his new novel, he once again u ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
    Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - by Haruki Murakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099488668 | ISBN 10: 0099488663

    A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflect ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Railway by Hamid Ismailov
    The Railway - by Hamid Ismailov

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099466130 | ISBN 10: 0099466139

    'In the steppe near Tashkent they came upon a never-ending ladder with wooden rungs and iron rails and that stretched across the earth from horizon to horizon. Whistling and thundering, a snake-like wonder hurtled past them, packed both on the inside ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Match by Romesh Gunesekera
    The Match - by Romesh Gunesekera

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747579397 | ISBN 10: 0747579393

    A heartwarming novel about life, love and cricket from this Booker-shortlisted author. As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny liked to play cricket. But none of his new friends in Manila were remotely interested. That is until the gorgeous Tina arri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
    Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - by Lisa See

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747583004 | ISBN 10: 0747583005

    Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are to be bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers - by Yiyun Li

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007196630 | ISBN 10: 0007196636

    Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2006.Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.Shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers. In this prize-winning collection of short stories, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frangipani by Celestine Hitiura Vaite
    Frangipani - by Celestine Hitiura Vaite

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099490081 | ISBN 10: 0099490080

    Longlisted for The Orange Prize.Materena Mahi, champion professional cleaner and best listener in all of Tahiti, is usually the one solving the problems. But right now she's that close to throwing her daughter Leilani into the street. 'It doesn't ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book Big Breasts and Wide Hips by Mo Yan
    Big Breasts and Wide Hips - by Mo Yan

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780413771551 | ISBN 10: 0413771555

    In 1900, as the Boxer Rebellion rages in China, baby Shangguan Lu is hidden in a flour vat while her parents are slain by invading German forces.Ninety-three years later, having survived the Japanese occupation, the civil war, the Grear Leap Forward ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two Lives by Vikram Seth
    Two Lives - by Vikram Seth

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780349117980 | ISBN 10: 0349117985

    Two Lives is the story of a century and of a love affair across a racial devide. It tells of the extraordinary lives of Vikram Seth's great-uncle Shanti, brought up in India and sent to Berlin in the 1930s to study, and of his great-aunt Henny, whose ... more

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  • Cover image of book War Trash by Ha Jin
    War Trash - by Ha Jin

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141023960 | ISBN 10: 0141023961

    North-East China, 1951. Yu Yuan, a fresh-faced cadet straight out of university, finds himself attached to a corps of 'volunteers' sent by Mao to help shore up the communist side in Korea at the outset of the 1951-3 War. Poorly armed and unprepared f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
    Saving Fish From Drowning - by Amy Tan

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007216161 | ISBN 10: 0007216165

    Bibi Chen is dead. And she wants to tell you a story.Businesswoman, patron of the arts and socialite Bibi Chen has been killed in mysterious circumstances. Her death may or may not be linked to the disappearance of eleven American tourists in southe ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan
    The Garlic Ballads - by Mo Yan

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780413775313 | ISBN 10: 0413775313

    By China's greatest living novelist, an unforgettable story of politics, love, loyalty and retribution - between man and woman, father and child, friend and friend.In China's Paradise Coutny, the peasants have grown their famous garlic crop for hund ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mr Muo
    Mr Muo's Travelling Couch - by Dai Sijie

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099470182 | ISBN 10: 0099470187

    Dai Sijie's bestselling first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress was a delightful fable. His second is a Chinese Don Quixote, following the misadventures of Mr Muo, China's first psychoanalyst. It's been over ten years since Muo lef ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of a Distant Voice by Taichi Yamada
    In Search of a Distant Voice - by Taichi Yamada

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571229710 | ISBN 10: 0571229719

    Kasama Tsuneo is an immigration officer in Tokyo, struggling to live a 'normal' life after an event that happened eight years previously, on the other side of the world, in Portland, Oregon.When he is seized one day by a strange emotional fit his li ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
    A Fine Balance - by Rohinton Mistry

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571230587 | ISBN 10: 057123058x

    Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have forseen, soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Never Let Me Go - by Kazuo Ishiguro

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571224135 | ISBN 10: 057122413x

    In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go hauntingly d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
    Shantaram - by Gregory David Roberts

    £10.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780349117546 | ISBN 10: 0349117543

    In 1978, gifted student and writer Greg Roberts turned to heroin when his marriage collapsed, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies. Caught and convicted, he was given a nineteen-year sentence. After two years, he escaped from a maximum-s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji
    The In-Between World of Vikram Lall - by M.G. Vassanji

    £10.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781841956060 | ISBN 10: 1841956066

    "My name is Vikram Lall. I have the distinction of having been numbered one of Africa's most corrupt men..."  Vikram Lall inhabits an 'in-between world': between his ancestral home in India and the Kenya he loves passionately; between his infamo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Galpa: Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women by Edited by Niaz Zaman and Firdous Azim
    Galpa: Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women - by Edited by Niaz Zaman and Firdous Azim

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863565670 | ISBN 10: 0863565670

    This vibrant and thought-provoking anthology of translated short stories is representative of the variety of issues that women from Bangladesh tackle in their writings.  It includes stories on the 1971 War of Liberation, women's 'honour', mother ... more

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  • Cover image of book Village of Stone by Xiaolu
    Village of Stone - by Xiaolu

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099459071 | ISBN 10: 0099459078

    Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, where fishermen are often lost to violent seas and children regularly swept away.  It is the beautiful, haunting story of one little girl's struggl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Halfway Up the Mountain by Kiran Khalap
    Halfway Up the Mountain - by Kiran Khalap

    £8.95   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780714531137 | ISBN 10: 0714531138

    Your mother now forces you to wear a sari. The one you wear when the boy comes down from Bombay to "see you" is bright yellow. It is 1956, less than a decade since the first man in your life left without a forwarding address. Now you have to tie your ... more

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  • Cover image of book Peacock Cries by Hong Ying
    Peacock Cries - by Hong Ying

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780714531199 | ISBN 10: 0714531197

    A novel of political and sexual tensions set against the backdrop of the hugely controversial Three Gorges Dam Project in the Yangtze River, Peacock Cries provides a rare and fascinating insight into life in contemporary China, told through the eyes ... more

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  • Cover image of book Queen of Dreams by Chitra Divakaruni
    Queen of Dreams - by Chitra Divakaruni

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780349119410 | ISBN 10: 0349119414

    'I dream the dreams of other people, so I can help them live their lives.'Rakhi's mother once spoke those words to her daughter when she was a young girl. But now Rakhi is an adult - one in need of help to live her life. An artist and divorced mothe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everything Happens for a Reason by Kavita Daswani
    Everything Happens for a Reason - by Kavita Daswani

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007160631 | ISBN 10: 0007160631

    What if you were offered something you thought you couldn't have? Like the life you really want...Priya has married a handsome young Indian man living in America. Though she has moved from Delhi to Los Angeles - a land of Hollywood excess and celebr ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Hundred Shades of White by Preethi Nair
    One Hundred Shades of White - by Preethi Nair

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007143467 | ISBN 10: 000714346x

    Maya, her mother Nalini, and her brother Satchin have left a carefree life in India to come to England. But when Maya's father disappears leaving only deceit and debt behind, they are left to fend for themselves in a strange, damp land. Maya, th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Something Black in the Lentil Soup by Reshma S. Ruia
    Something Black in the Lentil Soup - by Reshma S. Ruia

    £7.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781901969146 | ISBN 10: 1901969142

    A comical and irreverent portrayal of three parallel cultures - British, Indian and British-Indian - with penetrating insights into social mores and conventions. Kavi Naidu is a great poet in the tradition of Wordsworth and Shelley (Well he thinks ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
    Sputnik Sweetheart - by Haruki Murakami

    £8.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780099448471 | ISBN 10: 0099448475

    Twenty-two-year-old Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamourous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume
    I Am a Cat - by Soseki Natsume

    £16.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780804832656 | ISBN 10: 080483265x

    "A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action..."(The New Yorker) Written from 1904 through 1906 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
    Asleep - by Banana Yoshimoto

    £8.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780571205370 | ISBN 10: 0571205372

    Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep.   One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Anoth ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rape of Sita by Lindsey Collen
    The Rape of Sita - by Lindsey Collen

    £12.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780747552451 | ISBN 10: 0747552452

    'Grit your teeth, Sita, don't cry. You are not a crying kind of girl.' The oppressed cry out. They rise up. They oppose. Speak out...Sita is a strong woman, inspiration to the weak, a living legend in Mauritian society.Yet Sita has buried a secret ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bone People by Keri Hulme
    The Bone People - by Keri Hulme

    £9.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780330485418 | ISBN 10: 0330485415

    The Bone People is a love story. It begins when a mute six-year-old, full of blasting hurt and strange charm, wanders off the beach and into the home of a despairing artist. Kerewin has given up everything but drinking, thinking and fishing, but the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - by Haruki Murakami

    £9.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780099448792 | ISBN 10: 0099448793

    Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving.  As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy subur ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
    The Good Earth - by Pearl S. Buck

    £8.99   paperback   (1931) - ISBN 13: 9781416511106 | ISBN 10: 1416511105

    O-lan is a homely servant girl in the village's greatest house. When she is taken as a wife by Wang Lung, a simple Chinese farmer, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is hope ... more

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