My town was set ablaze on 7 December, after all four thousand inhabitants had been evacuated, except for me. I was born here, had live here all my life and couldn't imagine living anywhere else ... There is always one, at least one, who doesn't follow the crowd, he doesn't even need to know why, and here in Suomussalmi it was me.
Fourteen years after independence, the enduring friendship of three women has carried them through times of violence and loss in Kenya, their chosen homeland.
'More delinquent than Nobokov, more gung-ho than Hemingway, more verbose than Kerouac, and more self-obsessed than Kafka, the writer Kleinboer introduces himself as probably the weirdest activist ever to rise up - in an absolutely literal sense - against the bigoted laws of the apartheid regime.' Koos Kombuis
Frank Machianno is the guy, a late-middle-aged ex-surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront. He's a beloved fixture of the community, a stand-up businessman, a devoted father to his daughter. Frank's also a hit man, a retired hit man ...
Saudi Arabia, the world's leading oil nation, is on the brink of revolution. Inside the opulent palaces and lavish mansions, the royal family is ransacking the country's dwindling coffers while the desert kingdom seethes with unrest.
In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key ...The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?
Whilst sleeping in a strange bed in a strange land, five-year-old Stefan is lulled to sleep each evening by his father's extraordinary bedtime stories...
