A swirling historical epic, published in India, which follows a quest for the essence of Sufism and the heady fragrance of ishq-e haqeeqi - love for the divine. From Afghanistan to Granada, ... read more
A scientist's investigations into light and motion are used to develop ways of tracking workers' movements. The dizzying narrative encompasses an experimental sci-fi film, military drone tec... read more
Mary Jocelyn, who leads a quiet but happy life with her widowed father at Dedmayne Rectory, is thrown into emotional disarray by an unexpected love affair. First published in 1924, it was pi... read more
A translation of the novel which won the 2015 International Prize for Arabic fiction. It follows one man's turbulent life through Tunisian politics, from his student days to his career as a ... read more
The Nobel Prize winner's new novel is set against the backdrop of the 1954 CIA-backed military coup against the putatively pro-communist Guatemalan government: a story of high politics, corr... read more
Although not well known in the UK, Lewis is one of the best conteporary US novelists. This, set on the coast of Maine, is a sort of parable of contemporary American society.
Knausgaard's first novel since the completion of his My Struggle cycle. An unusually large star lights up the night sky in Norway, affecting the novel's characters in very different ways - s... read more
GJ's first novel in over two decades is set in C17th colonial Brazil and its last fugitive-slave settlement. She burst onto the literary scene in 1975 with the publication of Corregidora, a... read more