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Rima, a young girl from Damascus, longs to walk, to be free to follow the will of her feet, but instead is perpetually constrained. Rima finds refuge in a fantasy world full of coloured crayons, secret planets, and The Little Prince, reciting passages of the Qur''an like a mantra as everything and everyone around her is blown to bits. In Planet of Clay, Samar Yazbek offers a surreal depiction of the horrors taking place in Syria, in vivid and ...

Mary Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband brutally murders her. Who is Mary Swann? And how could she have produced these works of genius in almost complete isolation? Mysteriously, all traces of Swann''s existence - her notebook, the first draft of her work, even her photograph - gradually vanish i...

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These two companion novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare time apart in their many years of marriage. In The Husband's Story, Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two uncouth adolescents while immobilised by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. In The Wife's Story, Brenda, travelling alone for the first time, is in a strange city grappling with an array of emotions and toying with the idea o...

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Thirteen-year-old Brian lives in a trailer on a forgotten patch of land with his divorced and uncaring father. His older brother Lucien, physically and mentally disabled, has been institutionalized for years. While Lucien's home is undergoing renovations, he is sent to live with his father and younger brother for the summer. Their detached father leaves Brian to care for Lucien's special needs. But how do you look after someone when you don't ...

In 1930s British India, a humble servant learns the art of chaturanga, the ancient Eastern ancestor of chess. His natural talent soon catches the attention of the maharaja, who introduces him to the Western version of the game. Brought to England as the princes pawn, Malik becomes a chess legend, winning the world championship and humiliating the British colonialists. His skills as a refined strategist eventually drag him into a strange game o...

This winner of the European Union Prize for Literature is a visceral combination of real and fictional events.

A powerful evocation of love, loyalty and war in 19th-century Africa

How Our World Lost Its Way. The United States is losing its moral credibility. The European Union is breaking apart. Africa, the Arab world, and the Mediterranean are becoming battlefields for various regional and global powers. Extreme forms of nationalism are on the rise. Thus divided, humanity is unable to address global threats to the environment and our health. How did we get here and what is yet to come? World-renowned scholar and bestse...

the English-language debut of an outstanding Colombian writer about the many meanings of motherhood and love.

A pair of twins who had at one time been inseparable leave Guadeloupe for Mali and then later in life move to Paris, eventually growing apart, with one twin coming to walk a beat and the other twin set for a path of radicalisation. Translated by Richard Philcox.

Adam heads from Paris to the homeland he fled twenty-five years prior upon hearing the news that his closest friend is dying. He arrives to find that his childhood friends have taken differing paths in life. A long-awaited return from the French-Lebanese author. Translated by Frank Wynne.

Anna Janko's mother, at nine years of age, witnessed her family members being murdered by German soldiers. In "A Little Annihilation", Janko looks back on the ways ways in which this trauma has been a presence in her own life, applying the device of a mother-daughter dialogue. Translated from the Polish by Philip Boehm.

Frédéric decides that what he wants for his fiftieth birthday is eternal life, and so he goes on a journey to visit the world's longevity experts, considering the potential of such phenomena as cell rejuvenation, telomere lengthening and 3D printed organs. Frank Wynne translates from the French.

Samir arrives in Amsterdam having fled conscription into Saddam Hussein's army and subsequently wandered Asia for seven years. From the airport, he is transported to an asylum centre, faced with five-hundred co-habitants and nine years of engaging with Dutch bureaucracy. A funny and compassionate window on a defining aspect of the modern era. Al Galidi is a popular poet and performer.