650円 During a period in Hong Kong when most people are worried about the imminent change from British Colonial Rule to Chinese Administration, two families separately find themselves in situations far worse than they could ever have imagined. A series of events embroil them in false accusations, kidna...

1,723円 An unhappy orphan who finds solace in paper cut-outs of her parents, an Indian doctor who displays his medical degree in his taxi cab, and waiters who tamper with fortune cookie are some of the vibrant characters who are brought to life in this anthology of six monologues that revolve around pape...

500円 We as humans all too often seek fulfillment from the fresh waters on the other side of the river. Marty Madison, In the Shadow, extricates himself from his humdrum existence opting for the fresher waters that inexorably pull him into life threatening torrents. This story, though historical fictio...

450円 The other day I was walking the back streets of Hong Kong when I came across a very interesting incident. I stumbled across the shooting of a film, so I sat down quietly and watched the action. After I returned to my hotel room I wrote some notes down about what I had seen. Health warning - pleas...

750円 Simon Bootham and David Whyatt couldn't be more dissimilar. But the mining industry can prompt odd friendships. Bootham is trusted by his acquaintances though he has an aloof personality and a murky past. His present is building into something of growing suspicion also. He has a mission to travel...

164円 According to Wikipedia: "Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he was the first ...

800円 Ex-news cameraman, Steve Saunders, is repatriated back to Australia suffering from Post Trauma Stress caused by wounds he suffered in his last assignment and the horrors he witnessed whilst covering the closing stages of the Vietnam War. The final terrifying incident which tipped him over the edg...

496円 The Nō Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley Translations of a selection of Nō dramas, which have deep connections with Japanese Buddhism, Shinto, and Japanese folklore. Part prose, part verse, the visually stunning No plays of Japan deal with such subjects as insanity, obsession and historical characte...

800円 Apasra seemed like an ordinary foreign student striving to get through Harvard University. Unknown to her peers, she has a well-kept secret. A novel of great love. The author argues that "great love exacts a great price". It vividly shows that love is undoubtedly the noblest and mightiest of all ...

200円 SEARCH OVER Sex and Love by ELIOT GEORGE is the third in the 'David quartet' of which the first was SEARCH FOR THE WOMAN Sex and Satisfaction. Now in middle age and retired early from full-time work in the Nineties, David leaves England to live abroad in more congenial climes. This book (set in A...

1,555円 The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years. In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its i...

800円 Der in die Jahre gekommene Rockmusiker Old Bergi will als Frühpensionär auf Zypern seinen Lebensabend verbringen. Die »Insel der Liebe« entpuppt sich jedoch als Vorgarten der Hölle, weil ihm überraschend schnell und brutal ein Strich durch die Rechnung gemacht wird; nicht nur von seiner Jugendlie...