Fiction: Special Features

Yoruba legend and culture were the source of much of Amos Tutuola's writing and the stories collected here are no exception. They feature character...

Hate skews reality even more than love.In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi'...

This is the limit - how far would you go?Helium-3 is a rare element that promises to solve all the world's energy problems - and it's been discover...

The crew of a French reconnaissance plane during the First World War consisted of just two men: a pilot and an observer. Two such men are Jean Herb...

Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O'Brian - made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and elegantly repackaged. ...

Judd has a lot to prove. He needs to deliver a result and solve the murders quickly but the longer this takes and the deeper he digs the more compl...

Parma. A multiple pile-up occurs on the autostrada into the city. A truck transporting cattle skids off the road. Dozens of cows and bulls go on th...

Derrick Storm is returning from a rock climbing vacation in the Swiss Alps, when the plane spirals into a nose-dive. Storm heroically saves the pla...

First the young schoolboy, gloriously immersed in make-believe in a shabby farmyard; then the budding poet with his thrilling friendships and dream...

Featuring the original The Expanse story Drive by James S. A. Corey, the basis for Season 2, Episode 6, Paradigm Shift and Pat Cadigans Hugo-winnin...

The foremost Proust scholar of our time offers a brilliantly revised and annotated edition of the first volume of the twentieth centurys most accla...

When young and handsome Othman married Sofia-sophisticated, French, rich, and forty years his senior-he found his ticket out of a life of desperate...

Denys Johnson-Davies brings together this remarkable overview of the work of several generations of Egypt's leading short story writers. This selec...

A tale of violence, lofty ideals, and moral ambiguity, Fontaine''s best-selling novel is now available in a superb English translation Set in the d...