Illegal Action

by Stella Rimington

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The third thriller from the former head of MI5, featuring MI5 officer, Liz Carlyle. Liz Carlyle has been transferred to
Counter-Espionage, along with her research sidekick Peggy Kingsolving. Once the hub of MI5 operations, the department has been reduced in size since the
end of the Cold War, and priority within the service is on counter-terrorism.

The Blood of Flowers

by Anita Amirrezvani

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A dazzling debut novel about a young woman in 17th-century Persia whose gift as a rug designer transforms her life.

Deogratias, a Tale of Rwanda

by Jean-Philippe Stassen

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Set in Rwanda before and after the Tutsi genocide, and seen through the eyes of a young Hutu boy, this story reveals the grip of
madness and horror on one young man and his country. Full color.

Outcast

by Jose LaTour

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Elliot Steill, the product of a brief union between his Cuban mother and an American-born labourer, is an unhappy teacher
in Havana when a man claiming to be a friend of Steill’s deceased father arrives in Cuba and offers him the chance to escape. The plan goes dangerously amiss,
and Steill is soon on the hunt through Miami’s mean streets for the man who betrayed him. To find him, Steill first has to figure out why he was singled
out, an exercise that has him mentally searching his past in Cuba for clues.

Pink Icing: And Other Stories

by Pamela Mordecai

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Pamela Mordecai draws delicately detailed portraits of life in Jamaica and other islands, with occasional trips to Canada.
Her characters speak with the cadences of the Caribbean and cope with the universal experiences of birth and death, joy and betrayal.

Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean
Women Writers at Home and Abroad

by Elizabeth Nunez

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Stories from Blue Latitudes gathers the major and emerging women fiction writers from the Caribbean, including Dionne Brand,
Michelle Cliff, Merle Collins, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kinkaid, Paule Marshall, and Pauline Melville. Similar themes grace their stories of life at home and
abroad.

In the Dark

by Deborah Moggach

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Historical, domestic and sexy like Moggach’s best-selling Tulip Fever, this is a tantalizing, page-turning story
set in South London’s dark and dirty streets during WWI.

Presence: Stories

by Arthur Miller

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In this posthumous gathering of Miller's last published fiction, readers will find stories that appeared in "The New Yorker,
Harper's, Esquire," and elsewhere.

Still Summer

by Jacquelyn Mitchard

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Bestselling author Mitchard offers the harrowing tale of four women lost at sea. Pitted against nature, this story is a breathtaking
adventure about the bonds that hold friend to friend, and how facing mortality tests the truth of everything they think they know.

Trespass

by Valerie Martin

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Rich with menace, this novel unfolds in a world where darkness intrudes into bright and pleasant places, a world with
betrayal at its heart. In shimmering prose Martin raises the question, Who shall inherit America?

If You Liked School, You'll Love Work

by Irvine Welsh

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The author of Trainspotting gives a master class in gallows humor in his first story collection since The Acid
House (1995). Three of the five stories take place in the U.S., and Welsh relishes punishing ugly Americans.

Bordeaux Housewives

by Daisy Waugh

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When an ordinary English family swap dreary suburbia and the rat race for the glorious countryside of France they have no
idea just how much their lives are going to change.

The Island

by Victoria Hislop

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Travel writer Hislop's unwieldy debut novel opens with 25-year-old Alexis leaving Britain for Crete, her mother Sofia's
homeland, hoping to ferret out the secrets of Sofia's past and thereby get a handle on her own turbulent life.

Bright
Lights and Promises

by Pauline McLynn

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With her unique voice and perceptive characterisation, Pauline McLynn has once again created a sparkling novel. Both warm and witty,
it is sure to be loved by her confirmed fans, as well as attract new readers.

Strawberry Fields

by Marina Lewycka

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U.K.-based Lewycka, a Booker and Orange Prize nominee for 2005's A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, follows
up with a Chaucer-inspired tale of migrant workers trapped at global capital's thuggish bottom.

The Deporteesby
Roddy Doyle

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The Deportees now brings those stories together for all of Roddy’s devoted readers, ranging from a terrifying ghost story, “The
Pram,” in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge’s older sisters and decides–using a phrase she has just learnt–to “scare them shitless,” to
the glorious title story itself, where Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed the beloved Commitments, decides it’s time to find a new band, and this time no
white Irish need apply