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One of Africa's most eminent contemporary writers selects 35 short stories by the best new African writers, defined as the 'post nationalist generation', following Richard Ford's best-selling Granta Book of the American Short Story.

A lyrical and searing account of life on the front line of the wars between the Russian state and the Chechen people

Dazzling travel writing, beautifully produced for the armchair traveller. Writers include Chatwin, Thubron, Sebald, Theroux, Kapuscinski and Aitkenhead, and there's an introduction by Jonathan Raban.

Two brothers find themselves stranded in an otherworldly village in this comic coming-of-age story set during the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia

The Kolyma region was the prime site of the Soviet Gulag, a wintry hell of permafrost and gold mines, where tens of thousands of Soviet prisoners died of exhaustion and hunger in 1932-54. Who lives in there now, and how, and why? Jacek Hugo-Bader travels along the Kolyma highway, aka the road of bones, or the world's longest graveyard, to find out

An award-winning author's exploration of the complexities of policing terror in a world full of fundamentalists...

From a prize-winning Italian author comes a brilliantly inventive novel about the final years of Charlie Chaplin's life, which is both a vivacious portrait of a comic legend and a love letter to the era of silent cinema

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Debut novel from a Danish author, translated by Mette Petersen. Follows the story of a 13 year old boy whose life is going off the rails, until a biker, who claims he's Jesus Christ, turns up to help him out. Will appeal to fans of "God's Own Country" and "Submarine".

A dark, urgent and melancholy coming-of-age story - of both a boy and a country - from one of the most internationally acclaimed new Czech writers

In this memoir, journalist Bloom considers the state of his home country, South Africa, in the wake of the murder of his cousin in a violent attack. An eloquent account of his personal tragedy and the wider issues of the country.