Of making many books
there is no end.

IRISH FARCE

by KJ Kelly

Two former housemates—one English, one German—wash up in wartime Ireland and become rivals in love.

GENEALOGY MEMOIR

My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter

by David Tereshchuk

Can a top TV reporter apply his journalistic skills to battle his mother’s evasions and identify his father?

ANTHROPOLOGY · ADVOCACY

Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands?

by Jonathan Lawley

Can the Andamans’ last pygmy tribespeople survive Indian tourism and property development?

HISTORICAL NOVEL

by Marguerite Poland

The Anglican Church raises a young black preacher’s hopes, only to betray his trust. Based on a true story.

MEMOIR · POSTCARDBOOKS

by Nigel Thorpe

How international diplomacy transformed the life chances of one of its most unsuspecting recruits.

OVERSEAS FICTION

by Sanjay Panikkar

In Cochin, Sana falls in love with a reclusive school friend, then has to survive giving him up.

EAST EUROPEAN MEMOIR

My Life in Romania Under Fascist and Communist Rule

by George Tomaziu

The anguished memoir of one man’s struggle against political violence and inhumanity.

HISTORIC COMEDY

by William Keeling

Gay hero enlists eccentric lady friends to combat crime and prejudice in Regency Bath.

HISTORIC COMEDY

by William Keeling

Gay hero returns from banishment abroad to fight racism and bigotry in Regency Bath.

FLORIDA · RELIGIOUS FICTION

by Anthony Motley

Det. Jake Miller is done with policing—and marriage—until he finds a murder suspect in need of redemption.

EPISTOLARY BIOGRAPHY

The Love Letters of Margaret McLaren-Reid

by Richard Cullen

Letters written to a 1930s debutante reveal the ironies of imperial privilege and pain.

COMING-OF-AGE ROMANCE

Found and Lost

by Kirby Porter

Lucky in love? Can a Belfast sixth-former win the jackpot and hold onto his gains?

WW1 COMING-OF-AGE MEMOIR

The Ironies of an Edwardian Childhood

by Robert Best

Schooldays inspire a former Bedales pupil serving in the ASC and Royal Flying Corps in World War One.

GREEK MYTHOLOGY

as told by Nausikaa: The 1900 Translation by Samuel Butler

by Samuel Butler

A radical translation of a revered ancient text attributes it not to Homer but a young Sicilian…

PHOTOGRAPHY · ANIMAL CONSERVATION

by Roger Allen

Breathtaking pictures of missions to rescue ill-treated animals from neglectful zoos and owners around the world.

AFRICAN FICTION

by Tunde Ososanya

Surreal fables—some comic, some tragic—of Nigeria from one of BBC West Africa’s Pidgin reporters.

PHILOSOPHY · TRAVEL

A Journey of Ideas

by Rupert de Borchgrave

A sceptic of modernity invites us to share his wonder at 2,000 years of Classical and Islamic culture.

Literary Biography

by Annie Elliot

Mrs Dickens tries to retrieve love and self-respect from one of history’s most abusive marriages.

DOMESTIC FICTION

by Michael Ladner

Back in Vienna in 1960, an Austrian-born professor revisits his past while his family explores its future.

COMIC NOVEL

by Robert Mullen

Schoolteacher Po Cheng dreams himself back in imperial China where fortune is as easily lost as won.

MEMOIR · POSTCARDBOOKS

A Memoir

by Anita Rose

The daughter of a founder of AJEX looks back on a life devoted to post-war charitable work.

CULTURAL HISTORY

by Robert Best

A Birmingham industrialist recalls his battle against the fashionable dogmas of 1930s Modernism.

WARTIME MEMOIR · POSTCARDBOOKS

by Jane Reid

The wife of a career diplomat recalls her childhood in wartime England, far from her diplomat parents.

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

by Olivier Rolin

An exile returns to Paris to investigate a friend’s suicide—and wonders if he can bear to stay.

JOURNALISM

Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent

by Michael Holman

Over fifty years, a radical journalist watches his ardent hopes for post-colonial East Africa unravel.

FILMSCRIPT · HUMOUR

A Filmscript for Fairies

by Stephen Games

Monsters threaten Rainland but can hated Princess Brainy overcome her doubts and save the kingdom?

U.S. MILITARY FICTION

by Gordon Haber

Can a New York draftee from an emotionally barren family survive life in wartime Korea?

RELIGIOUS MEMOIR · POSTCARDBOOKS

by Linda Lubbe

The new rector of Modimolle learns to minister to some of Southern Africa’s least evangelised people.

CULTURAL FICTION

by Steven Jay Griffel

New York journalists travel to post-genocide Rwanda and find their own obsessions challenged.

ESCAPIST FICTION

by Chris Hilton

Englishman seeking adventure gets caught up in messy Havana street life and even messier love.

Literary Criticism

by Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler’s 1897 overturning of conventional ideas about Homer’s epic poem.

CULTURAL SATIRE

by F.X. Contreras

Returning to Mérida for a school reunion, Gallo finds that Mexico’s elite have never really grown up.

HISTORICAL FICTION

A Novel

by Dan Jones

A medieval inquisitor travels to Northern England to investigate bizarre pagan mysteries.

SHORT STORIES

And Other Stories

by Janina David

Single middle-aged women travel the globe to find old friends and new freedoms in the postwar world.

POLITICAL MEMOIR

The Tragic Story of an Iraqi Idealist

by Michael Goldfarb

BBC reporter recalls his guide and translator in Gulf War II, killed by ISIS after the US retreat from Iraq.

CHILDREN · HUMOUR

Five Stories for Five Children

by Janina David

Five traditional children’s stories—from ancient legend to the Brothers Grimm—get modern makeovers.

MUSICOLOGY · BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY

by Luke Ottevanger

After ten barren ten years, an English musician seeks inspiration in places that inspired other British composers.

DOMESTIC FICTION

by Fatima Kara

In 1960s Bulawayo, can Kulsum give her daughters the modern education that her sons enjoy?

CULTURAL SATIRE

by Michael Kretzmer

A senior TV executive battles a juvenile, ratings-mad industry that puts at risk what it claims to love.

INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY

Reflections on Our Different Ways of Thinking

by Ian Ross

A senior executive meditates on 40 years abroad, inside one of the world’s most controversial businesses.

GRASSROOTS SOCIOLOGY

What the Next Door Neighbours Are Saying

by Stephen Games

How residents of a London suburb use social media to talk to each other. Unedited and heartwarming.

MEDICAL MEMOIR

by Brian Verity

Angry husband exposes the horrors of Huntington’s Disease and society’s refusal to face up to it.