Graham Swift

From Graham Swift, Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, comes a masterful and compassionate novel of rare emotional power and narrative skill. On a mi...

Ramchandra Guha

Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a unite...

Don Delillo

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and traces the aft...

Cormac Mccarthy

The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in...

Tabish Khair

Set primarily in India and spanning the twentieth century, Filming tells a series of stories, including that of one-time whore, Durga, who is persuaded to give ...

V S Naipaul

Over the course of his astonishing fifty-year career, V.S. Naipaul's writing has been characterized by a commitment to truth that gives his work a unique lu...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half-history, half-myth, and wholly magical; narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the five Pandeva brother...

Rahul Jacob

When Rahul Jacob left India for the first time at the age of twenty-one, for graduate studies in the US, he was too nervous to sleep on the layover in Tokyo. Tw...

Jeffrey Goldberg

Jeffrey Goldberg moved from Long Island to Israel while still a college student. In the middle of the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, the Israeli army sent ...

Patrick French

Researched with the full co-operation of its Nobel Prize-winning subject, this is the first major biography of one of our greatest writers V.S. Naipaul is the m...

Philip Gourevitch

A Cold Case is the story of how Andy Rosenzweig, retired Manhatten cop, reopened an investigation into a double murder that had happened more than thirty years ...

Benjamin Black

Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary Dublin pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonorable dec...