Creative Writing, Fiction

About the Book In Martin Rowson’s The Waste Land, private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable o...

About the Book Richard I (1157-99) was king of England from 1189 until his death, but he is best known as a soldier, not a monarch. He earned his m...

About the Author Sonallah Ibrahim is one of Egypt’s best-loved contemporary novelists. He spent five years in political prison from 1959 to 1964....

About the Book In this new collection by Nighat Gandhi, the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader. Inside their homes, women are...

About the Book 'Who is it among you who deserves eternal life?' Lanzarotte, is a thought provoking, sometimes shocking, and ultimately moving exami...

About the Book The world as we know it is over. Man's reign on earth has come to an end, and the reign of the animals has begun. The indifferently ...

About the Book As both the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged part of the "normal" female life, motherhood expects and even compels wome...

About the Book At the age of 32, Harriet Swift thinks she has the perfect life. But when her only sister is killed in a car crash, Harriet is force...

We live as social beings. But our being social includes power structures of various kinds – from the language that we speak and write in to the sta...

About the Book In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussain,sacrificed his life and his family members and companions in th...

About the Book “The day they found My brother with a blood stain, I found one on My kurta too, but no one noticed My blood stain.” thus begins ...

About the Book May 1992. In Russia, Boris Yeltsin is showing millions of Communists the spectre of capitalism.Yugoslavia is disintegrating. United ...

About the Book The book is aimed at providing a short introduction to the divergent ways in which space and place evince themselves in literature. ...

About the Book Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach - journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, an...

About the Book On the New York Times bestseller list for 19 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A Barack Obama Favorite * A National Book Award...

A personal narrative surfaces in splinters and shards. Every word from Bonnefoy is multifaceted, like the fragmented figures seen from different an...

DCI Monika Paniatowski has never forgotten her first, difficult encounter with Whitebridge businessman Jordan Gough. Nor, she thinks, has he. So wh...

The first English translation of a major work of postwar German poetry. Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) was a member of the Gruppe 47 wr...

A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard. “The cold increases with ...

The moving yet humorous story of a girl struggling to care for herself and others in post-communist Slovakia. Emotionally neglected by her immature...

A novel of the invasion and occupation of Egypt by Napoleonic France as seen through the eyes of a young Egyptian. The Napoleonic-era French invasi...

What does it take to succeed as a queer teenage Eastern European sex worker in the 1990s? Eleven inches and a ruthless attitude. Western Europe, s...

A heart-wrenching story about love, loss, sex, the friendship between women, and the universal struggle to come to terms with death. Just before t...

A haunting, multivocal novel full of stories of the lives of women of African descent. Four women speak. They speak to the same man, who is not the...

A powerful novel of a young man living between Muslim and Christian worlds amid the Lebanese Civil War. Firefly paints a searing portrait of the ci...

An inventive collection of stories by one of the most prominent and acclaimed writers in Hungary today. The Birth of Emma K., a collection of twelv...

An intellectually stimulating yet accessible collection of short vignettes on Russia and Germany by Alexander Kluge. Not just in light of a conte...

The narrator at the beginning of this account wonders about one of the most fabulous countries on earth, a country often torn by extremes, by the m...

Written during the final stages of the Indian Independence movement, between the gloom and angst of the interwar period and at the cusp of the begi...

Set in the early days of the Jewish state, Yankinton tells the stories of refugees from the Holocaust and antisemitism who struggled to build new l...

In contemporary Norwegian fiction, Tomas Espedal’s work stands out as uniquely bound up with the author’s personal experiences. His first book, Tra...

The first comprehensive volume in English from one of Hungary's most popular twentieth-century writers.

Tulip of IstanbuL is a historical novel depicting the Ottoman empire’s most glorious times in art and aesthetic, elegance and grandeur of dreams. A...

Jerusalem in the early 1990s, just before the israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin signed the oslo peace Accords and was assassinated by a rightwin...

In winter stories, Norwegian author br>Ingrid H. Rishøi gives us three contemporary tales about personal resilience in the face of adversity. We...

How, in 1930, did Alfred Wegener, the son of minister from Berlin, find himself in the most isolated spot on Earth, attempting to survive an unthin...

“Think of the vicious wit of Virginia Woolf, laced with the tender melancholia of Hélène Cixous, spiked with the subtle eroticism of Anaïs Nin.” —...

PRAISE FOR: “Agnihotri draws you in with her well fleshed out characters. Their dreams, idiosyncrasies and disappointments are all too real; as ar...

Praise for: “The personal and the political come together in this tale of a nation and a young, newly-married woman, as they push against horizons,...

Breviaries, books of standard religious readings for particular denominations, are a familiar genre with a long pedigree. But you’ve definitely nev...

AS it turned out, young Daniel never outgrew the enchantment of the mysterious Yeti, the Abominable Snowman. His search for the enigmatic creature ...

Udit never counted his blessings. And he loved being a rebel. But little did he know that his rebellion would one day uproot him and toss him into ...

The ten stories in this collection explore the unspoken dimensions of human experience, moving fluidly across the real, the seemingly unreal and th...

Delicately and sensitively, the author guides her protagonist in her search for inner strength as she accepts both the beauty and the pain of her p...

The story of a man and his relationships with his mother, wife and girlfriend—set against a rapidly changing Indian landscape. The unique insights ...

New York City-based writer, Shaili Kapoor, is shocked to find out about her mother, Meena Kapoor’s, death. Meena had drowned herself in Pashan Lake...