Highlights variations in representations of West Indian slavery by drawing on a range of testimonies, especially those of the enslaved themselves. This work focuses on representations based principally on first-hand experience or observation of slavery in the then British West Indies.

Told with Aboulela’s inimitable elegance and narrated from the point of view of both Natasha and the historical characters she is researching, The Kindness of Enemies is both an engrossing story of a provocative period in history and an important examination of what it is to be a Muslim in a post 9/11 world.

A collection of poetry and short stories, with images, scrutinising themes of family, relationships and the changing world of the 21st century and moves from darker topics of poverty and self-harm through to more optimistic themes.

Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life’s big events: love and loss, separation and violence, death and betrayal.

DS Louisa Townsend from Edinburgh is an engaging new detective who is as impetuous as she is ambitious, with an innate sense of justice at her core. She is temporarily working on the island of Tarawa, a remote coral atoll in the middle of the Pacific, where nothing ever happens.Then a mutilated body is found.

It is 1932, Silesia, Germany, and the eve of Antonia’s 12th birthday. Hitler’s Brownshirts and Red Front Marxists are fighting each other in the streets. Antonia doesn’t care about the political unrest but it’s all her family argue about.

1955. Brighton. When Mirabelle Bevan is rescued from a fire at her home on the seafront she’s lucky to escape unharmed – but the blaze takes the life of her neighbour, Dougie Beaumont, a dashing and successful racing driver. It soon becomes clear that this was arson, raising questions about the young man’s death that Mirabelle can’t resist.

This remarkable memoir introduces the reader to ordinary women – and their families – living in remote villages of the Hazara Jat region and in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.