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Stories of Your Life: and Others

by Ted Chiang

One of the best short story collections of the last ten years, back in print in a new edition.

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: and Other Stories

by John Kessel

A literary collection of astonishing stories from an award-winning science-fiction writer and satirist.

Secret Society Girl: An Ivy League Novel

by Diana Peterfreund

Fans of Beautiful Disaster will devour Diana Peterfreund’s Ivy League novels—Secret Society Girl, Under the Rose, Rites of Spring (Break), and Tap & Gown. At an elite university, Amy Haskel has been initiated...

The End of the Story

by Liliana Heker & Andrea Labinger

The quintessential novel of Argentina's Dirty War (1976-83), from one of the country's most respected and controversial writers. English debut.

A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape

by Candace Savage

•Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction

When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring...

A Mermaid's Tale: A Personal Search For Love and Lore

by Amanda Adams

From the seas of antiquity to the city streets of today, A Mermaid's Tale explores the myth and meanings of the mermaid. Beginning with Melusina, the bathing mermaid par excellence, Amanda Adams goes on to describe...

My Turquoise Years: A Memoir

by M.A.C. A. C. Farrant

My Turquoise Years is a touching, funny, and elegantly written account of a 13-year-old girl's life. Throughout her childhood, Marion Farrant had heard stories of the sophisticated life her mother, Nancy, led...

Blockbusters and Trade Wars: Popular Culture in a Globalized World

by Peter S. S. Grant & Chris Wood

Unprecedented worldwide distribution of books, television programs, and other cultural products would seem to augur well for the diversity of ideas. Yet a dwindling number of media conglomerates — significantly...

Under the Poppy: a novel

by Kathe Koja

Love: it’s a triangle. War: is coming. Betrayal: is inevitable. Sex: watch out for the naughty puppets.

An Enchantment of Birds: Memories from a Birder's Life

by Richard Cannings

In these delightful meditations, biologist and bird lover Richard Cannings weaves stories of his personal encounters with birds into fascinating descriptions of their behavior, anatomy, and evolution. He muses...

Swimming with Cobras

by Rosemary Smith

Swimming with Cobras is a memoir about a journey to find a foothold in a foreign land grappling with it's own identity, offering rare and important insight into a corner of South Africa's past.

Whiplash

by Tracey Farren

Told with startling poetry in the grittiest of emotional landscapes, Whiplash puts Farren on the map as a wordsmith of astonishing talent.

Invisible Earthquake

by Malika Ndlovu

Malika Ndlovu takes us right into the heart of her grief - the loss of her third child, who was stillborn.

Go Tell the Sun

by Wame Molefhe

Set in Botswana, the stories trace the lives of characters whose paths cross and re-cross each others', some times in and through love, at other times through tragedy.

Eloquent Body

by Dawn Garisch

Eloquent Body explores the juxtaposition of healing and creativity both from a personal as well as medical point of view.

Bom Boy

by Yewande Omotoso

Leke is a troubled young man living in the suburbs of Cape Town. He develops strange habits of stalking people, stealing small objects and going from doctor to doctor in search of companionship rather than cure....

The Bed Book of Short Stories

by Lauri Kubuitsile & Joanne Hichens

The bed, dressed in hand sewn quilt or threadbare blanket, may in and of itself be memorable, but it is what happens in the bed - the sex and lovemaking, the dreams, the reading, the nightmares, the rest, giving...

Reclaiming the L-Word

by Alleyn Diesel

This brave and moving collection of stories by South African lesbian women from different backgrounds reminds us, again, that rights are never finally won in legislatures or in court rooms.

Unity: The Third Testament for the Third Millennium

by Kevin Carey

The tranquil development of the Perpetuan movement is disrupted by Gregg, a former US Secret Service operative and charismatic sex maniac. He subverts Perpetua's message in a series of aggressive emails, pushing...

Peter Paul Galligan: "One of the Most Dangerous Men in the Rebel Movement"

by Kevin Galligan

The stories of the leading figures of the Irish revolution – Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera, and guerrillas like Tom Barry and Ernie O’Malley – have been well told. But many other senior-ranking activists...