Fiction: Special Features

For a brilliant forensic linguist, crimes of the past hold clues to new series of murders in a twisting novel of suspense by the Wall Street Journa...

Empordan Scafarlata is a mirage of memories written with intelligence, irony, courage and tenderness; linking tradition, modernity, resentment and ...

The next in the wonderfully warm and uplifting series set on the New Forest Puddleduck FarmHow can life be too busy for love?Phoebe Dashwood is liv...

The next in the wonderfully warm and uplifting series set on the New Forest Puddleduck FarmHow can life be too busy for love?Phoebe Dashwood is liv...

The first fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, this book explores the b...

An iron-willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 mu of less-than-ideal farmland: these are Li Juans companions on the...

What was it they were battling? Their smallness, of course, their smallness. A delicate and arresting queer novel from one of Korea's most celebra...

Maggie Harris short-story collection Writing on Water is informed by voices of the Caribbean where she was born and Britain where she has lived as...

Originally deemed a cynical, pessimistic - and, above all, overly revealing - portrayal of life as a newspaperman upon its release in interwar Denm...

China is ageing. Its shrinking households, overworked and overstretched, struggle to carry the burden of care for their elderly. Retired Beijing ju...

A boy is killed on a government minister's orders as part of his mission to clean up the country and others made complicit must explore their consc...

Banipal 73 - Fiction Past and Present is a delicious mix of pioneering, emerging and established authors from around the Arab world. With short sto...

'Waywardness' by Ezekel Alan (Jamaica) 'Reversal of Fortunes' by Kevin Baldeosingh (Trinidad & Tobago) 'Father, Father' by Garfield Ellis (Jama...

That spring, as if by agreement, we got it into our heads that something should finally happen, something should change.A selection taken from the ...

Rasma hated her dreams; they made her sick she rested best when she fell into complete silence and darkness.Rasma is a taxi driver with a mysterio...

The stories brought together in Foreigners, Drunks and Babies cast the slanting light of a poet's sensibility on the Imperial Academy of an ancient...

PBS Recommended Translation for Spring 2013The Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf is brought to life by American poet Meghan Purvis in a vigorous contem...