Full of fresh humor and wry observation, a small town in the south of India is conceived and mapped with brilliant precision Kittur is Indiaâ??s so...
Shyamji has music in his blood, for his father was the acclaimed 'heavenly singer' and guru, Ram Lal. But Sham Lal is not his father, and knows he never...
A wonderful book, a magical book' Jan Morris, Independent. A moving and beautiful novel of the transformation of rural England. Taking its title from the st...
V.S. Naipaul undertook this Caribbean journey at the invitation, in 1960, of Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, the author'...
An astonishing selection of letters from V. S. Naipaul’s formative years, rich with compassion, literary beauty and a genuine literary intent. In 1950, V....
The latest mystery in Andrea Camilleri's internationally bestselling Inspector Montalbano series
With their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camill...
Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker finalist: a controversial novel of faith and mystery about a group of desert travelers and their encounte...
Like all of V. S. Naipaul's `travel' books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in ind...
In a country where women have been exterminated, one little girl remains alive. Her name is Meiji. Her uncles, Eldest, Middle and Youngest, have raised her agai...
The Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri is the fourth in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano series. The commissioner kept looking at him with an expressio...