Island Madness

Author	Rabih Alameddine
ISBN	0802122140

One of Beirut’s most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with a heartrending novel that celebrates the singular life of an obsessive introvert, revealing Beirut’s beauties and horrors along the way.

Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in...

Author	Martha Wells
ISBN	0345545249

Times are desperate for the Rebel Alliance. Harassment by the Empire and a shortage of vital supplies are hindering completion of a new secret base on the ice planet Hoth. So when Mid Rim merchants offer much-needed materials for sale, Princess Leia Organa and Han Solo lead an Alliance delegation to...

Author	Barbara Cleverly
ISBN	1569479879

A story of murder, mystery and espionage (with a dash of romance) set in London in the long, hot summer of 1922, against the backdrop the Romanov murders and the disappearance of the Tsar's fortune.

A beautiful and traumatized young Russian woman turns herself in at the British consulate in...

Author	Émile Zola
ISBN	1414275897

Emile Zola's novel Le Rêve (1888) is a love idyll concerning a poor embroideress, Angelique, and the son of a wealthy aristocratic family, set against the backdrop of a sleepy cathedral town in northern France.

A far cry from the seething, teeming world evoked in Zola's best-known novels,...

Author	Clarice Lispector
ISBN	0811219623

A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published.

At her death, a mountain of fragments remained to be “structured”...

Author	Derek Robinson
ISBN	1845291727

World War One aviators were more than just soldiers they were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised the gallant young heroes. But for Stanley Woolley, commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron, the romance of chivalry in the clouds is just a myth. There are two types of men up there: victims...

Author	Mark Mills
ISBN	0007276885

Investigation
Mark Mills' books always provide a captivating murder mystery with surprises and intrigue weaved throughout a good plot. The Information Officer is based on Malta during the Second World War and the central character is the information officer, Max Chadwick. Max's job is to maintain...