2023
November
Death and the Maiden
The explosively provocative, award-winning drama set in a country that has just emerged from a totalitarian dictatorship.. >>
Short Stories from Bhutan
Lingchen Dorji
In these twenty-one haunting stories Lingchen Dorji portrays the various facets of contemporary Bhutanese life with a rare sense of humanism.... >>
Brideshead Revisited
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War.. >>
September
We Are All Birds of Uganda
'You can't stop birds from flying, can you, Sameer? They go where they will...'... >>
Gravel Heart
A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Paradise.
Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets... >>
August
The Wizard of the Kremlin
An acclaimed, bestselling novel - a stunning work of political fiction that reads like a thriller, about the rise to power of Putin's notorious spin doctor... >>
Winter Journal
From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude , a moving and highly personal meditation on the body, time, and language.. >>
The Architect's Apprentice
From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire... >>
They Would Never Hurt a Fly
Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. ... >>
June
Born a Crime
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also... >>
Faces in the Water
c this novel provides a moving description of the horrific conditions in two New Zealand mental institutions. >>
Order of the Day
Winner of the 2017 Prix Goncourt, this eye-opening account of the muddled forces at work behind the Anschluss brilliantly dismantles the myth of a glorious and inevitable Nazi victory... >>
They Would Never Hurt a Fly
"Who were they? Ordinary people like you or me—or monsters?” asks internationally acclaimed author Slavenka Drakulić as she sets out to understand the people behind the horrific crimes committed... >>
May
The Island of Missing Trees
Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers .... >>
Red Brigades
Mario Moretti Brigate Rosse
A Tale for the Time Being
WIn Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century... >>
February
Manifeste du bricolage social
We read from a french book about the unique adventure of the Citizen Chimera is born of a revolt. Too much indifference to social suffering, ... >>
January
The World of Yesterdays
The World of Yesterday, mailed to his publisher a few days before Stefan Zweig took his life in 1942, has become a classic of the memoir genre. Originally titled “Three Lives,”... >>
Ishmael
The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher... >>
The Pale King
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a ... >>
Home in the World: A Memoir
In Home in the World, these “homes” collectively form an unparalleled and profoundly truthful vision of twentieth- and twenty-first-century life. Here Sen, “one of the most distinguished ... >>