When Claires parents arrived in Tokyo, they opened Shiny, a pachinko parlour. Shiny draws people ...

A young woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse on the border between South and North...

When Dinah Brooke’s second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described...

'If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see...'So begins Jamaica Kincaid's powe...

1974. Eighteen-year-old drifter John Pitt leaves England with nothing more than his wits and a de...

'Enchanting.' -- Financial TimesIn my reckless and undiscouraged youth, I worked in a walnut-pane...

The future is here. India has just sent its first spacecraft to the moon, and the placid city of ...

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A wonderfully gossipy novel that whisks readers through the glamorous worlds of turn-of-the-centu...