Rome, 58 AD.The dinner party didn’t turn out the way Aemilius Valerius expected. He didn’t expect a place at the main table. He didn’t expect to drink that much. He didn’t expect to hook up with one of the scarier dancers. And he most certainly didn’t expect to trip over the bloody corpse of his host on the floor of the informal dining room.One man’s grisly murder is another man’s opportunity. Valerius teams up with the investigator, a plebeian with a chip on his shoulder, ...

Rome, 58 AD. Aemilius Valerius is on the up and up. His reputation has been rehabilitated, he has established a fledgling career, and he has new friends in very powerful places. When one of those new friends, the poet Lucan, is attacked, Valerius is given an offer he can’t refuse: find the culprits before they strike again. But when every man in Lucan’s circle of poets and playwrights and artists is potentially a suspect, each one of them competing for the emperor’s favor, how is V...

Baiae, 59 AD.Aemilius Valerius promised Junius Atreus a holiday, and what better place to take one than the glittering resort town of Baiae, as famous for its hot springs and ocean views as it is for its drunken debauchery and moral decay? Not that Valerius and Atreus have time to enjoy any of that, because a young patrician woman is murdered and they are tasked to find her killer.Between weird cults, underground grottos, dinners with the emperor, and the chaos of Mad Uncle...

Portly, perceptive, and spectacularly moustachioed, India’s finest private detective, Vish Puri, tackles his most difficult case to date, in Tarquin Hall’s delightfully humorous whodunit series set in New Delhi.“Vish Puri is the Indian Poirot.” —Financial Times (London)“Vish Puri [is] a Punjabi Sherlock Holmes.” —The Guardian (London)For Vish Puri, India’s most private detective, the news that he h...

The best-known epic of the Western canon, The Odyssey signifies the beginning of literature as we know it.Odysseus, King of Ithaca, is stuck in a perilous and seemingly unending journey home after the ten-year-long Trojan War. Because he’s upset Poseidon, Odysseus must reckon with both godly and earthly threats on his passage. He travels through the land of the Cyclops, encounters the enchantress Circe at the ends of the earth, and faces the sea monster Charybdis and the si...

A man with a deadly past marries into the perfect, respectable family in this riveting thriller from New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh . . .A woman buried.A woman broken.A woman crashed.A woman burned.And the man who knew them all.Love at first sight, a whirlwind Vegas wedding, a fairy-tale romance.For seventy-nine days, Tavish Advani has been the happiest ...

In this compassionate, poignant novel set in contemporary India, a young professor searches for connection and love during a time of political and cultural upheaval.As political tensions rise precipitously across India, Rohit returns to Delhi University to teach and gets caught in a web of unrequited love with his friend Dhruv. To alleviate his inevitable heartbreak, Rohit seeks relationships with other men in the city, until he meets and embarks on a delicate new ...

Beautifully narrated by Golden Voice narrator Vikas Adams, these two tales of outsiders, one from the distant past and the other from the far-off future, explore love and beauty in the context of fear and threats and reflect upon one another in surprising ways. Jamali Kamali is a book-length poem about two men who lived in 16th century India. For hundreds of years, the story that these men were lovers has been passed down through the generations. Jamali Kamali is a fictional account of the...

An awe-inspiring and panoramic investigation into the hidden world of the deep sea - a mysterious, unforgiving landscape whose secrets radically revise our understanding of life on earth.The deep sea is one of our planet's last frontiers. For most of human history, it has been a remote realm shrouded in obscurity. But here, where the light cannot reach, lies a strange, wonderful and breathtaking world, teeming with scientific marvels and lessons for the future of l...

From the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party—Jagmeet Singh—comes a personal and heartfelt story about family and overcoming adversity.In October 2017, Jagmeet Singh was elected as the first visible minority to lead a major federal political party in Canada. The historic milestone was celebrated across the nation.About a month earlier, in the lead up to his election, Jagmeet held community meet-and-greets across Canada. At one such event, a disruptive he...

'Irreverent, witty, and moving.'- SONORA JHA'Read it, laugh, and feel very scared.'- NEEL MUKHERJEE'A dazzling novel.'- MONA SUSAN POWERRohit, a young professor teaching in Delhi, is in love with his friend Dhruv - a tall, fierce activist who insists they're better off as ""soulmates"" than as lovers. Nursing a broken heart, Rohit pursues other men in the city, unti...

Can you imagine being lost and not finding your way home again?Saroo Brierley became lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a family in Australia.Despite being happy in his new home, Saroo always wondered about his origins. He spent hours staring at the map of India on his bedroom wall. He pored over satellite imag...