Collection: Paperbacks

During a family holiday in Italy, Cathy receives an urgent call from her sister. There's been an accident: Frannie hit a man with her car and he's dead. Overcome with terror, Frannie fears years in a foreign jail away from her child. She asks for Cathy's help. It wasn't Frannie's fault, not reall...

"Natasha, Riya, Anjali and Katherine were best friends in college -- each different from the other yet inseparable -- until that night. It was the night that began with a bottle of whisky and a game of Ouija but ended with the death of Sania, their unlikeable hostel mate. The friends vowed never ...

Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, and the grinding struggle to survive against the crushing realities of the Soviet system.

Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Suddenly a man steps out, a man wearing a hat. Eva runs into him, hits the pavement hard. His hat is in the gutter. His anger slaps Eva, but his hate will change everything, as war forces so many lives into small, brown suitcases. Prague, 1...

When Marie D'Anger saw that look in Edy Baudin's eye, she knew it was time to go home. Marie D'Anger returns to the family home in south-west Australia after years of living in England, to a father whose destructive impulses have been curbed by a stroke, and a mother whose passivity she never und...

A collection of short stories from the Orange Prize-winning author of Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun. The stories in this brilliant collection straddle the cultures of Nigeria and the West. Her characters battle with the responsibilities of modern life, a world in which identity is too ...

First published in 1958, this is the story of a "strong" man whose life is dominated by fear and anger. It is also a social document, recounting the impact of colonialism and Christianity on the life of an African tribe - the Ibo - in turn-of-the-century Nigeria.