Novels

Winner of the 2012 South Asia Prize Set against the Japanese advance on India during the Second World War, The Skinning Tree centres on the nine-year-old Sabby, who lives in a Calcutta family where sophisticated British habits such as bridge and...
By: Srikumar Sen

Each year the storyteller Hassan gathers listeners to the city square to share their recollections of a young foreign couple who mysteriously disappeared some time ago. As various witnesses describe their encounters with the couple – their tales...
By: Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

Each year the storyteller Hassan gathers listeners to the city square to share their recollections of a young foreign couple who mysteriously disappeared some time ago. As various witnesses describe their encounters with the couple – their tales...
By: Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

As war-reporter Martin Crowther arrives in Umbria, still raw from a recent assignment in Africa, and from a failing love affair back home, a storm hits and the sky opens. Things are powerfully on the move inside him too as he comes to the small...
By: Lindsay Clarke

Selected for Fiction Uncovered 2012! When young Elliot gets a labourer’s job at Mr Evans’s after being sacked from a pig farm for liberating six of its sows, he thinks he’ll have even more opportunities to lean on gates or stare at fields. But his...
By: Peter Benson

Selected for Fiction Uncovered 2012! When young Elliot gets a labourer’s job at Mr Evans’s after being sacked from a pig farm for liberating six of its sows, he thinks he’ll have even more opportunities to lean on gates or stare at fields. But his...
By: Peter Benson

As Ute and her husband Jerry travel to a remote area on the west coast of South America, they decide to visit a recently established eco-retreat called Villa Pacifica. The resort, run by a group of eccentric expatriates, offers a luxuriant refuge –...
By: Kapka Kassabova

As Ute and her husband Jerry travel to a remote area on the west coast of South America, they decide to visit a recently established eco-retreat called Villa Pacifica. The resort, run by a group of eccentric expatriates, offers a luxuriant refuge –...
By: Kapka Kassabova

An extraordinary tale of France’s greatest chef, his loves and a country on the brink of war. White Truffles in Winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier, who changed how we eat through his legendary restaurants at...
By: N.M. Kelby