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Fiction and Poetry A selection of fiction and poetry from around the world
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Abish Kekilbayev
One of present-day Kazakhstan's most venerated writers retails in bardic vein a prose ballad of ancient rivalry between his Kazakh forbears and Turkmen neighbours on their illimitable sun-scorched (or snow-carpeted) steppe, in unceasing nomadic contest for pasture, animals, and sometimes women.                                                                                    

Tom Stacey
A failed businessman makes a strange pact with his femme fatale; a young Cotswolds landowner is lured to unexplored Africa...                                                                                                                  

Shelby Tucker
A timely, mordant satire on the world of investment finance.                                                                                                                              

Tom Stacey
A once famous world-roving correspondent, now self-exiled on an island in the Persian Gulf, is an old and forgotten man...                                                                                                                  

Amelia Edwards
A dramatic and unusual love story set in a small French Protestant community, written with humour, passion and acute insight.                                                                                                                  

Hilda Ismail
An exciting new book of verse from the talented, young, Saudi poetess and writer Hilda Ismail. Released into the English language in this new edition. Translated by Soad Naguib                                                                                                      

Akim Tarazy
The first English translation of this powerful Kazakh novel.                                                                                                                              

L M Shakespeare
A brilliant historical novel from the pen of the widely acclaimed L M Shakespeare                                                                                                                        

Vincent Cronin
An enthrallingly imagined account of Nero's reign.                                                                                                                              

Sybille Haynes
The changing fortunes of Larthi, the Augur's daughter and her family refelct the fate of the entire Etruscan nation.                                                                                                                  

 
 
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