A Colombian philosophy student is arrested in Bangkok and accused of drug trafficking. Unless he enters a guilty plea he will almost certainly be sentenced to death. But it is not his own death that weighs most heavily on him but a tender longing...
Guys like us don’t do love. My best friend and I never fell for anyone and I wasn’t thinking about settling down before the accident.
When Geoff suddenly died in a car crash, things changed. Actually, everything changed. Being the only one at...
Horror, mystery, thriller... these short stories from Celina Grace, author of psychological thrillers Lost Girls and The House on Fever Street, take you on a macabre journey; from disillusioned drug dealers, to honeymooning couples, from cannibals...
Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life in the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier; Patsy is...
Suspenseful and atmospheric, this extraordinary novel portrays both the hardship and grace in the life of a man struggling to realize his destiny.
When Samuel Tyne emigrated from the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1955, he was determined to...
She knows better. She just doesn’t care.
Apple Malloy is a woman scorned. Scorned by a society that has shamed her, and scorned by the men who have claimed her. On the verge of college graduation, Apple finds herself entangled in one last game...
The highway became the Red Sea.
We moved through the storm like a sheer valley.
You drove; I looked at you with love.
— from "Storm"
One of the most gifted and readable poets of his time, Adam Zagajewski is proving to be a...
The sequel to the classic memoir I Saw Ramallah, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here takes up the story in 1998 when Barghouti returned to the Occupied Territories to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim, to his Palestinian family.
Ranging freely...
Named after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, red-haired Sarah Nour El-Din is "wonderful, irresistibly unique, funny, and amazing," raves Amy Tan. Determined to make of her life a work of art, she tries to tell her story, sometimes casting it as a...