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I wanted to write about a book, but also about genocide and war. A Dry White Season by André Brink gave me a way. Brink, a white Afrikaner in apartheid South Africa, refused silence. His unflinching, journalistic style shows us oppression for what it is—and challenges us to respond.

An exceptionally novel about the dark side of intellectual ambition, isolation obssesion and much more.

A novel about life, hope, resistance and much more

Julian Barns exlplores structural racism , injustice and Englishness through lives of Sir Arthur Connan Doyle and George Edalji

Affinity is much more than a novel about spiritualism or spiritism, however one might want to call it—it covers a variety of themes, primarily focusing on the experiences and lives of women in nineteenth-century England.

Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky weaves together the lives of a Victorian boy, a Yazidi girl, and a London hydrologist, exploring love, loss, memory, and oppression across time. A moving, unforgettable read for fans of historical and multi-generational fiction.