General Fiction

Sand-Catcher by Omar Khalifah, translated by Barbara Romaine, follows four young Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper who are assigned to interview one of the last living witnesses of the Nakba. The elderly man refuses to cooperate, challenging the journalists' assumptions about memory, history...

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho follows Santiago, a young Andalusian shepherd who dreams of finding a treasure near the Egyptian pyramids. He leaves his familiar life behind and travels across North Africa, meeting people who help him understand his dreams, purpose and the importance...

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan is a sweeping multigenerational novel following a Palestinian family across five decades. Beginning in Nablus in 1967, the story follows Alia and her family as war and political upheaval force them from Palestine to Kuwait and, later, across Beirut,...

Honey Hunger by Zahran Alqasmi, translated by Marilyn Booth, is a lyrical novel set among the mountains and plains of rural Oman. Azzan is a beekeeper who searches for wild hives and finds solace in tending his bees. When he encounters Thamna, a solitary...

George Orwell’s 1984 presents a chilling vision of a totalitarian society where the Party controls information, language, history and even private thought. Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting the past to serve the Party’s version of reality. Under the constant surveillance...

Beer in the Snooker Club by Egyptian writer Waguih Ghali is a classic novel of exile and cultural displacement. Set between London and Cairo during the era of Nasser, it follows Ram and Font as they struggle with political upheaval, privilege, friendship and their...

Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg is an intimate and beautifully observed autobiographical novel about family, language, memory and life in Fascist Italy. Ginzburg recreates the world of her family through their distinctive expressions, arguments, routines, friendships and memories. At the centre is the lively...

A warm, witty and bittersweet novel told through the letters of Sybil Van Antwerp, a 73-year-old woman who uses correspondence to make sense of her life. When letters from her past force her to confront painful memories and long-held regrets, Sybil must find the...

Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad follows Sonia Nasir, a British-Palestinian actress who returns to Haifa after years away. She becomes involved in a production of Hamlet in the West Bank, where theatre, family, identity and political reality become increasingly intertwined. The novel explores belonging,...

Artie Dam appears to have an ordinary, settled life: he teaches history, enjoys sailing and shares his home with his wife of three decades. Yet beneath the surface, he is troubled by loneliness and questions about how little people truly understand one another. When...

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar is a powerful literary novel following Cyrus Shams, a young Iranian American struggling with addiction, grief and questions about his family's past. Cyrus's mother died when her passenger plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was a...

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter is an inventive and emotionally powerful novel about grief, family and healing. After the sudden death of their mother, two young boys and their father struggle to cope with their loss. Into their lives comes...

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Peppa and her friends visit a pumpkin patch for a playful Halloween pumpkin hunt. Lift-the-flaps add an interactive element as young readers search for the perfect pumpkin.

Ten little pumpkins are brought to life by magic dust on Halloween. Can they make their way past ghosts, ghouls and monsters to the Halloween party? Follow the pumpkins as they screech and squelch their way through a weird and wonderful world, packed with...

Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth is a tender coming-of-age novel set in rural Ireland in the early 1990s. Lucy has always felt out of place in the small village of Crossmore. During one long, hot summer, her friendship with Susannah develops into an intense...

Set during the Second World War, All the Light We Cannot See follows Marie-Laure, a blind French girl who flees occupied Paris with her father, and Werner, a German orphan whose talent for radios draws him into the Nazi war machine. Their lives gradually...

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But...

The Odyssey follows Odysseus on his extraordinary ten-year journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Facing shipwrecks, monsters, hostile gods and countless other dangers, Odysseus must rely on his courage, intelligence and determination to survive. Along the way, he encounters legendary figures including...

Yale student Lily Chen arrives in Taipei hoping to connect with her family, her Chinese heritage and herself. But her summer of discovery quickly becomes complicated by difficult classes, an uncomfortable living situation and an unexpected romance. When her grandfather dies, Lily is forced...