Herbert Asbury

The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around the infamous slum of Five Points, with...

Frank Schaeffer

Calvin Becker is back in a timeless story about the volcanic sexual curiosity of a fourteen-year-old boy born into a fundamentalist family so strict that he has...

Alexander Mccall Smith

Journeying from Portugal, to Australia, to southern Africa and other exotic settings, this irrepressible collection of short fiction by the author of The No. 1 ...

Fay Weldon

A brilliant and caustic cautionary tale from one of Britain’s best-loved and most controversial writers. Hattie and Martyn are a decent, hard-working,...

Rana Dasgupta

When thirteen passengers are stranded together at an airport, they form a huddle and tell one another stories about lives in transit that grow into an epic cycl...