They call them ‘women of love', but the lyrical beauty of the term has a hidden dark side: a workforce of very young girls tasked with feeding thei...

M.J. Nicholls' path-breaking new book is a stark and uncompromising account of the bizarre and regrettable period when the British government set a...

"I believe this fluent, accurate, readable translation of Tristan and Isolde will become the standard English edition of Gottfried's literary maste...

"I believe this fluent, accurate, readable translation of Tristan and Isolde will become the standard English edition of Gottfried's literary maste...

Flying into action, daredevil photojournalist Johnny Brice is always looking for trouble ... and more often than not, finding it. But he doesn't kn...

As daring and defiant as Kirk Douglas journeying 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, there's no stopping diver Hawk Ridley as he takes the plunge into a ...

Ailsa Kay lays out the literary equivalent of a jigsaw puzzle in Under Budapest, bringing into stark relief the triumphs, calamities, and desperati...

Long before Captain Jack Sparrow raised hell with the Pirates of the Caribbean, Tom Bristol sailed to hell and back Under the Black Ensign. That's ...

A work of fiction, most of Vale of Tears takes place in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, where the book's protagonist, Coralie, is trying to ...

Set in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, these early works now published in English for the first time, show that from the beginning of ...

The rediscovery of the writings of Veza Canetti (1897-1963) was one of the literary events of the 1990s in German-speaking Europe. In her stories C...

This novel is based on the true story of the author's relationship with a charming imposter. Anni Mills lived a comfortable, fulfilling life. Then,...

Waterborne is a preternatural tale of the Atlantic layered with the textures, colours, and voices of the sea. Stella Maris Goulding is the unwanted...