Fiction

To Steal Her Love

by Matti Joensuu

An exciting crime story that also gives a touching portrait of a young man thirsting for love, and of the police officer pursuing him.

The Priest of Evil

by Matti Joensuu

There have been a strange succession of deaths at Helsinki tube stations. The police are baffled: nobody has seen anything and the CCTV tapes show nothing. The plot centres on a fanatical priest who brainwashes...

The Model

by Lars Saabye Saabye Christensen

In a cruel twist of fate, a painter discovers that he has an incurable eye condition and will be completely blind within six months. A brilliant portrayal of an artist's obsession marking an important step in...

Dream Island

by Josie Litton

The legendary island nation of Akora has shunned outsiders for centuries, but fate is about to deliver a young Englishwoman into the arms of its prince–and sweep them both into a daring love that knows no...

Not Funny Not Clever

by Jo Verity

Two middle-aged women, one handsome tv star, and three hormonal teenagers- all stuck in the middle of a heatwave and with nothing planned. Elizabeth was hoping for a week of idle chatter and cold white wine....

Men & Women

by Angela Clerkin, Karen Mcleod & Paul Burston

More fabulous stories of Gay & Lesbian love. After the hugely popular Boys & Girls, Paul Burston returns with a new anthology of stories about Gay and Lesbian love. From the vantage point of middle age there...

Tender Shoots

by Paul Morand & Euan Cameron

These three stories, about a trio of independent young women, are set in London—a city Paul Morand loved and which continued to fascinate him long after he worked there as an attaché at the French embassy...

The Nutcracker

by E T A T A Hoffman & Anthea Bell

ETA Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King may be familiar to many, having served as the inspiration for Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet. However, the ballet was based on a French retelling of the story,...

The Juniper Tree and Other Tales

by The Brothers Brothers Grimm & Anthea Bell

This volume contains a carefully chosen selection from the Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales, the most famous and influential of all the great nineteenth­century folklore collections.

The fairy tales...

Meetings on the Edge

by Mags MacKean

Meetings On The Edge is a travel memoir by Mags MacKean, a once-frustrated journalist for the BBC, who took the plunge and abandoned a ten-year career to follow her dream to become a mountaineer. The book explores...

Adventures in the Northlands: Vertebrate Mountain Shorts

by Tony Howard

'Lightning hit the cliff high above us, sending a dumper-load of rocks thrumming like jagged cannonballs out of the clouds to explode around us. Bill took a direct hit on his helmet, which was smashed. He hung...

The Wild Within

by Simon Yates

'All mountaineers develop differently. Some go higher, some try ever-steeper faces and others specialise in a particular range or region. I am increasingly drawn to remoteness – to places where few others...

The Devil's Banker

by Christopher Reich

Hailed as “the John Grisham of Wall Street” by the New York Times, Christopher Reich returns to the world he knows so well--the dangerous, dazzling world of high finance and international intrigue. In this...

Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

by Dervla Murphy

When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and within days she was secretly planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set off and this book is based on the...

A Persian Requiem

by Simin Daneshvar & Roxane Zand

Tribal leaders in opposition to the government, the corruption of occupation, society torn apart by shifting political loyalties… this is the background to one woman’s powerful story. A Persian Requiem is...

Dust to Dust: A Novel

by Tami Hoag

Sorry. The single word was written on a mirror. In front of it hung the Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop. Was it suicide? Or a kinky act turned tragic?

Either way, it wasn’t murder. At least not according to...

Tibetan Foothold

by Dervla Murphy

After her epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle in 1963, Dervla Murphy immersed herself in the life of the sub-continent, working for six months in an orphanage for Tibetan children in Northern India....

Godblog

by Laurie Channer

Dag doesn't know who he is any more. Crapped out of his sport, snowboarding. Can do no right by his best friend. Can do no wrong by his girl roommate. Pursued by the corporate paranoia of the coffee overlords...

Smoke and Lilacs

by Norm Sibum

Smoke and Lilacs is full of play and shadow, whispered intimations of mortality and glances of humour, elegiac lyric playing against steely classicism, an easy modern vernacular eliding with timeless grace....

Show Me a Hero

by Jeremy Scott

The ‘Roaring Twenties’ they called it: a fun time to be alive. The birth of a brave new world. The jazz age of Fords, flappers, prohibition and bathtub gin. The movies, radio and consumerism have redefined...