Rachel Seiffert   A debut novel that retells the history of twentieth-century Germany through the experiences of three ordinary Germans.Helmut: A boy born with a physical deformity finds work as...

Julian BarnesBeginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told...

Hazel FrankelA fictional account of a Jewish family’s journey from Nazi Germany to post–World War II South Africa, this breathtaking novel follows their everyday struggles living in Johannesburg in the...

Gillian SlovoIt is 1884. In Khartoum, General Gordon stands on the roof of his fortress as the city is besieged. He has vowed to fight the Mahdi to the death....

Nikos KazantzakisFreedom or Death by Nikos Kazantzakis is a novel on the heroic or epic scale about the rebellion of the Greek Christians against the Turks on the island of...

Michael ChabonIn 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill...

Tatiana de Rosnay   Paris, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis....

Amy TanFour mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco,...

Shulamit LapidThis scenic, moving novel, set at the end of the 19th Century, follows the life-altering trials and experiences of a pioneer woman in pre-state Israel. Fania, a 16 year...

Michael Williams   Winner of the 2014 UKLA AwardDeo is a great footballer, a fierce protector of his older brother, Innocent. His brother is easily nervous, easily happy but good...

David GrossmanIn this powerful novel by one of Israel's most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents' history. Determined to...

Andre Schwartz-Bart   Like Last of the Just, which traced the Jewish experience of martyrdom, this book recreates through fact and myth people's enslavement and humiliation, and survival -- and...