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By the Rivers of Babylon is a harrowing tale with a love story at its core, weaving a tale of flight intrigue, heroism, conflict and madness against the background of the maelstrom of the Middle East. The dramatic story, full of details about the life and suffering of the Jewish community in Iraq, has great emphasis on the human issues involved and the need for peace between Israel and the Arab states.

How will the world of literature respond to the continuing financial turmoil? Will the literature of this depression match the quality of work produced in the 1930s? Quartet were planning to publish this startling first novel later in the year, but have brought publication forward because of its relevance to today's troubled times. A Swiftian fable of excess, the story weaves around the adventures of Tomas, a young man on the make in a world o...

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The first in a trilogy which will take Superintendent Lannes through the war and up to the grisly, but inevitable purge of those found guilty of German collaboration.

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A passionate lover of women, Ibn Saud took many wives, had numerous concubines and fathered almost 100 children. Yet he remained an unswerving and devout Muslim, described by one who knew him well at the time of his death in 1953, as 'probably the greatest Arab since the Prophet Muhammad'.

This absorbing examination...is both ingenious and persuasive...her portrait of Siddal as a professional artist rather than a 'Pre-Raphaelite mascot' is a genuine and welcome act of reclamation' Sunday Times '...it will give sleepless nights to writers of conventional biography' Times

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Soon after her mother's death, a woman returns to the village where she grew up to reflect on her childhood years.Atmospheric and dreamlike, this novel by one of the classic writers in 20th century Italian literature is a Proustian journey of self-discovery and a poignant evocation of Italy at the beginning of the century.

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Outremer is a novel of faith and heresy, loyalty and intrigue, set in the 13th century Levant. Aimeric and his young family seek peace in the Maronite community of Gibelet under Mount Lebanon, but there too he is entangled in conflicts. Oriental and Western Christians, Mamelukes and other Muslims, Jews and Druzes spend their lives in war and peace, compromise and confrontation, as their heirs do today as if nothing has changed and no lessons l...

Beirut in 1940 -- a carefree social whirl under the shadow of war, a city of torn allegiances, treason and love. After France's crushing defeat by the German army, the pro-German Vichy French control Lebanon and Syria, while Britain tightens her grip over Palestine and Iraq. Diplomats and politicians maneuver as spies and agents intrigue in the narrow and deadly streets.

Clears up misconceptions about human sexuality, discusses body image, masturbation, orgasm, and lesbianism, and considers the nature of love and friendship.

Voted Book of the Year (1993) by the French literary magazine Lire, this novel tells the story of a Jewish woman's struggle to come to terms with the abortion she was forced to have during the French Occupation. An honest and compelling account which explores loss, guilt, regret and isolation coupled with anger and resentment in the face of injustice and persecution.

The themes in this unusual collection of short stories range from the lost innocence of childhood, betrayal, greed and the battlefield of sex, to the courage of old age. The settings include desert wadis in the Arabian Gulf, a small Sudanese village, the packed streets of Cairo, and a sniper's alley in Beirut. The writing is fluid and compelling.

Magical realism set in Guadeloupe.

Marvelously particular in its treatment of London and authoritative in its depiction of the corridors and elevator-lobbies of power, Day One is a novel of magnificent scope and concision.