Amit GilboaPhnom Penh is a city of beauty and degradation, tranquillity and violence, and tradition and transformation; a city of temples and brothels, music and gunfire, and festivals and coups....

Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniBeloved bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been hailed by Abraham Verghese as a “gifted storyteller” and by People magazine as a “skilled cartographer of the heart.” Now,...

Rebecca Ryman Set in 1840s India, this tale of star-crossed lovers packs a powerful punch. When Olivia, a forthright young American, comes to live with her very proper British relatives,...

Gao Xingjian Moving between the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution and the tentative, limited liberties of the China of the 1990s, ‘One Man’s Bible’ weaves memories of a Beijing boyhood...

Chetan Bhagat This is a comedy of romance and crossed lines. Six friends are selling home appliances to the US from a call centre in India. Each one has an...

Mohammed Hanif Mohammed Hanif delivers a shockingly funny new novel set in steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions and love found in the most unlikely places.The patients of the...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1986, this volume of stories, selected by the author from her own...

Stuart Woods When both your past and future spell fear. Award-winning author Stuart Woods has crafted a masterful novel no reader will soon forget. For years, Liz Barwick has been...

Vishnu Sharma Once there lived a learned brahman named Vishnu Sharma. Upon the king’ s request to make his sons ‘ masters of the art of practical life’ , he...

Octavia E Bulter When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of...

Aisha Ahmad and Roger Boase These stories were collected in the tribal areas of the Pakistan-Afghan border, a region once described as ‘the last free place on earth’, where the...

Migmei YipIn a sunny California apartment, a young woman and her fiancé arrive to record her great-grandmother's story. The story that unfolds of Precious Orchid's life in China, where she...