'Lost City Radio' is a poignant and deeply moving novel from a promising new author, which looks intensely at war's damaging effect on society and the individual. Learn More

Millennium is a stunning panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000. Learn More

Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her greatest work: a history of the world and in the process, my own . Gradually she re-creates the rich mosaic of her life and times, conjuring up those she has known. Learn More

A collection of one hundred inter-linked stories celebrating the twentieth century, by Germany's most eminent contemporary writer. Learn More

My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is György Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression. Learn More

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind occurred as part of an effort to win one violent, bloody conflict or another. This approach to history is only one of many examples of how societies promote warfare and glorify violence. But there have always been a few who have refused to fight. Learn More

From the desks of Nigeria's newsrooms, two journalists are recruited to find the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer... Learn More

Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche tells a spectacularly evocative tale of 15-year old Kambili s life growing up in Nigeria during a military coup. An extraordinary debut, Purple Hibiscus is a novel about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new, childhood and adulthood, love and hatred - the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and true living is begun. Learn More

Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. Learn More