The second decade of the millennium is drawing to a close and the century has begun to form its identity. In London, one economist is determined to remove inefficiencies from the system from the top down.The second decade of the millennium is drawing to a close and the century has begun to form its identity. In London, one economist is determined to remove inefficiencies from the system from the top down.Spaced In follows two protagonists determined to live life correctly, eliminati...

An author struggling with writer's block takes the well-worn path of visiting India's tourist must-sees for inspiration. A mountain climber doing everything to stay out of sight and avoid writing about his adventures tries to free himself from the trap of searching for sources. Together, a story within a story emerges to free the mind from the binds of ego, belief systems, addiction and culture.

Cal Danat's The Lost Artists takes a look at the organisation of art in the near future. The Artistic Foundation is putting the finishing touches to its program of designated zones for art and commerce, rounding up any rogue artists who stand in the way.A trip through the past, present and future of artistic thinking and organisation, for both the individual and the collective, The Lost Artists shows what happens when society tries to coral artistic expression into a narrow space.

Set in London in the days leading up to the financial crisis, The Suited Freeman is the story of a share trader who gives up everything to set an idea in motion that had burned inside him for years. It's a dark and light serious comedy about money, work, loyalty to an idea and maybe more.The Suited Freeman is the debut novel from Cal Danat, a writer of fiction. If you're looking for thinly-veiled accounts of a writer's social circle, this is probably not the book for you. However, ...

THE SECOND INSTALMENT IN THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIESOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLDAs the light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by a recent volcanic eruption, Icelandic police officer Ari Thór Arason take on an increasingly perplexing case, when a young man is discovered brutally beaten to death on the shores of a tranquil fjord…'A classic crime story seen through a uniquel...

“Theroux’s work is like no one else’s.” –Francine Prose, New York Times Book ReviewFrom legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime and is losing his “stoke.” The younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still idolize the Shark, but his sp...

A new short story by award-winning author Pasha Malla.Set during the summer in a small town on the edge of the Arctic Circle, To Sweep the Light is a love story about solitude and companionship, proximity and distance, and the quest for intimacy between a boy and a girl.

It's not easy landing unprepared in a country like Japan. The eccentricities of the calendar, the indecipherable postal system, not to mention the alien alphabet, language and culture, have all to be confronted before the disorientated traveller can feel at ease. Trying to ride a bicycle through the streets of one of the most congested cities in the world would seem to compound your problems. For Josie Dew, however, with over 200,000 miles already clocked up in the saddle few things could ...

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If a bad attitude could be subject to copyright, my ten years as a waiter would have left me obscenely wealthy. Working the floor, I was the Kerry Packer of passive aggression. Sullen insolence was my personal trademark, diligently honed and perfected over time. For a long list of perceived diner slights - ranging from ordering the tomato sauce separately to the fries, to calling me 'dear' - I could perform a Jekyll and Hyde switch into the most perfunctory, robotic and joyless server ...

"Mishra transforms a visceral, intimate story of one man's humble origins into a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society bedazzled by power and wealth . . . Run and Hide is a spectacular, illuminating work of fiction." —Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan BeachGrowing up in a small railway town, Arun always dreamed of escape. His acceptance to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, enabled ...

Short-listed for the Man Booker PrizeFrom the author of Remainder and C (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and a winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, comes Satin Island, an unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world—modern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in.U., a “corporate anthropologist,” is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnogr...