Literary Arts

Hala AlyanHardback, 272 pages9781849251006   At first, Hala’s baby is the size of a poppyseed. Then a grain of rice, then a lime. After years of tr...

Josephine ChiaPaperback, 525 pages9789811768941   Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965   The most significant aspect of living in a kampong was its k...

Fariduddin AttarSholeh Wolpe (translation)Hardback, 240 pages9780063424739   The first comprehensive English collection from one of the world’s mos...

Mosab Abu TohaHardback, 96 pages9780593803974   LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE   Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a ...

Chinua AchebePaperback, 176 pages9780141186887   Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous throughout West Africa. But when he accidentally kil...

Joseph ConradPaperback, 320 pages9780141441580   In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of ...

V.V. GaneshananthanPaperback, 368 pages9780241997673   Winner of the 2024 Women's Prize   Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over...

Leila AboulelaPaperback, 128 pages9781849250733   Reading Agency: Quick Reads Series   Suad misses her husband. He died unexpectedly during an argu...

N.F AfrinaPaperback, 272 pages9786299802525   One Library, Six Short Stories   Library of Lost Hearts is an anthology of short stories that is wove...

Elias KhouryPaperback, 417 pages9781962770064   Weaving personal and cultural memory into a tale that humanises the complex Palestinian experience,...

Mohja KahfPaperback, 448 pages9780786715190   Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana,...

Joseph ConradPaperback, 400 pages9780141441610   This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its ...

Maesy Ang, Teddy W. Kusuma (editors)Paperback, 144 pages9781912697328   From down-and-out philosophers to roadside entertainers, the characters in ...

Laura Kasinof (editor)Paperback, 192 pages9781912697977   The stories in this anthology demonstrate the myriad ways that war and oppressive regimes...

Omar KhayyamPaperback, 128 pages9780140443844   Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is...

Malcolm Lyons (translation)Paperback, 496 pages9780241299951   A Medieval Arab Fantasy Collection   Dating from at least a millennium ago, these ar...

Sarah AzizaHardback, 400 pages9781646222438   A Memoir of Bodies and Borders   Finalist for the Palestine Book Awards   A brush with death. An ance...

Tutu DuttaPaperback, 180 pages9789814882927   The Blood Prince of Langkasuka is a reimagining of an ancient Southeast Asian vampire legend; the com...

Khadija MasturPaperback, 320 pages9780143138068   A feminist classic of Partition literature   Set in the turbulent decade of 1940s India, The Wome...

Jane AustenPaperback, 448 pages9780141439518   When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and c...

Lewis CarrollJohn Tenniel (Illustration)Paperback, 448 pages9780141439761   Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-ho...

Hamid IsmailovShelly Fairweather-Vega (translation from Uzbek)Paperback, 446 pages9781911284369   ‘Life in exile! May it be cursed. Once you have b...

Jane AustenPaperback, 432 pages9780141439662   Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but uns...

Mansoura Ez EldinPaul G. Starkey (translation)Paperback, 184 pages9781623716219   A historical novel that shifts between contemporary Cairo and Anc...