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The fictional city of Santa Teresa on the Mexico-US border draws in lost souls: convicts and academics, an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' writer. But there is a darker side still.

Sylvie's future as a star ballet dancer is mapped out, but her dreams are shattered when she breaks her leg.

Working in India at the Golden Tiger Reserve is Charlotte's dream job; then a horrific train crash tears her world apart. Amid the wreckage, handsome, unsettling Jack latches on to her. 

An enchanting collection from one of India's foremost storytellers, rich in wry, warmly observed characters from every walk of Indian life.

The combination of an Ancient Greek setting, together with a leading character who is a vain and cowardly talking pig, makes for an unusual tale.

Near the end of Roopa Farooki's engrossing tale of a life, I was reminded of William Boyd's Any Human Heart. Like Boyd's epic, 20th century-spanning story, Farooki takes us on a journey from birth to death, showing us the love, pain, selfishness and weakness of the human soul.

From animal fables to mysterious forces in the landscape, McCall Smith's stories are adaptations of tales that have been handed down by generations of Ndebele people from Matabeleland, Zimbabwe.

Ausländer gives a fascinating insight into life in Berlin during WorldWar II – a perspective not frequently portrayed in young adult fiction.

Each of his stories creates a strange and fascinating new world, and none of them is easily forgotten.

The book is well drawn and very French, yet sounds so urgently British/London, it's charming and quick to read and allows an insight into the txt-ridden, low motivation, high octane lives of kids today, distractions, influences and warts, and all.

The Colour is a gripping drama of sacrifice and greed set during the mid-nineteenth-century gold rush in New Zealand.

Clem's coming-of-age story is woven around a tense account of the mounting Cuban Missile Crisis and the threat of looming nuclear war, leading to a shocking and unexpected climax.

Mark Tully has woven together a series of stories set in Uttar Pradesh.

Seeking escape from their lives, two teenagers are drawn to follow a charismatic young man who is leading a Children’s Crusade through France to the Holy Land.

Jamila Hashmi, Mumtaz Shirin, Fahmida Riaz and others use intricate narrative patterns, polemicism and lyricism in their stories about Pakistan's convoluted history.

These fifteen stories are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience.

Donaldson's style engages immediately and through her characters she raises many questions about our attitudes to those perceived as ‘different'.

Kipling's early tales of the Raj were collected in this volume, his first published book, in 1888.

A novel that resists all generalisations, the hugely influential and startlingly original One Hundred Years of Solitude helped launch ‘Magical Realism’ and a whole generation of Latin American writers on the international scene.

Oskar Matzerath, inmate in a mental institution, narrates the extraordinary events of his life thus far.

After her grandmother is burned at the stake, Mary is rescued and sent overseas to America to live amongst a Puritan community. But with her gifts, it's not always the safest place to be.

This unusual book tells the dark, often harrowing story of Octavian, a boy in the care of a house of rational philosophers in revolutionary Boston.

Trapped under the rubble of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, 15-year-old Shorty looks back upon his life so far

The perfect story to share with young people to explore themes of immigration, alienation and communication

Tinged with the melancholy and nostalgia of early steps into adulthood, it's the story of a young man's first experience of adult love, and of the discovery of his own limitations.

Using strikingly poetic imagery and language, Okamoto paints two arresting portraits of frustrated talent and longing.

Set in the exotic surroundings of Africa, Malaysia and the east, these stories variously appraise the glamour, folly, and rapacity of imperial adventure.

A taut, compelling tale in the Samurai warrior tradition

The Elephant Keepers' Children is just silly enough to be clever and just mad enough to make perfect sense.

1598, Prague: Lukas is tempted into crime by the petty thieves he meets in the local tavern. He steals a precious watch from the Emperor and puts his own and his uncle’s life at risk.

As well as being a compelling tale of love and friendship, this is an outstanding and thought-provoking exploration of the futility of prejudice.

These translations bring together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication, including his most famous story Metamorphosis.

Manil Suri's new novel, The City of Devi, is a weird postmodern dystopia, a thriller and a love story.

A warm debut novel about living and surviving on a South London housing estate.

The Whispering Muse is a work of outrageous and astounding strangeness: fusing horror with slapstick, magical realism with absurdist deadpan wit, and modernist high-jinks with the resonance of ancient myth.

How does a sweet and innocent child grow up to be so bitter and twisted that she is prepared not only to kill those she considers to be enemies but also to blow herself up in the process?

This debut from journalist Mirza Waheed is a powerhouse of a novel. It tells the sorry story of four childhood friends who wile away the days in the idyllic paradise of Kashmir, until the inevitability of politics and war causes three of them to cross the border into Pakistan and join the fight.

Anjali Joseph’s sophomore novel is another exercise in subtle, delicate beauty. Having been daubed one of the Telegraph’s 20 writers under 40, she has gone on from Saraswati Park to win a heap of awards. Another Country further confirms early acclaim.

Stories that range from darkly fantastical and unsettling to surprising discoveries that shape personal identity.

When the beautiful and mysterious Delos family arrive on Nantucket Island, Helen Hamilton's teenaged life is turned upside down.

A startlingly original, hilariously funny and passionate treatise on cricket and those who worship at its wicket.

As an adolescent, Halo is dragged from the love and security of her unconventional upbringing and sold as a slave.

Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper.

This moving novel follows Devorah and her sister as they are wrenched from life in Poland to the loneliness of an orphanage and a long, painful journey to South Africa.

Thoughtful, melancholic, haunting, Homesick is a collection of interlinked stories which muse on growing up, fitting in and the ephemeral nature of human life.

A brilliantly told, exciting story, with a brave and dignified heroine, which reveals the complexities of this chapter of American history.