Contemporary

The Dark Stuff by Donald S Murray

For generations, people who lived near or within moorland have interacted with their surroundings, making use of their resources and drawing ...

The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh

This is the tale of Grace, Lia, and Sky, who were raised in seclusion from society for their own good while being taught the horrible lessons that ...

The Living Mountain by Nan Shepard

Nan Shepherd chronicles her excursions into the Scottish Cairngorm highlands in this outstanding work of nature writing. She encounters a world that ...

Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui

The story, which is set in the ancient port city of Shanghai, centres on the irrepressibly carnal Coco, who works as a café waitress until she meets ...

Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang(Ailing Zhang)

During the Japanese colonization of China and Hong Kong, the lives of Mr Yee, a prominent politician who works for the Japanese colonial ...

Midnight (I&II) by Mao Dun

This book depicts people from all walks of life, including merchants, soldiers, intellectuals and social butterflies, old fogies, workers, and so on, ...

Man’s Fate by André Malraux

Man's Fate, an account of a significant incident in the early days of the Chinese Revolution, foreshadows the modern world and vividly illustrates ...

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

The story of John Grady Cole, a sixteen-year-old Texas rancher who finds himself at the end of a long line of ranchers and cut off from the only life ...

Reading the World by Dianne C. Luce

Beginning with a thorough analysis of the east Tennessee setting from which McCarthy's fiction develops, Luce sketches an Appalachian environment and ...

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

Child of God, Published in 1973, is a horror story that is supposedly largely based on a string of real-life murders that occurred outside ...

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian is an epic story about the brutality and corruption that accompanied America's westward expansion, breaking the norms of the Western ...

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak

Tequila Leila experiences heightened awareness in the pulsing seconds after she has been murdered and dumped outside of Istanbul. Although her heart ...

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