Washington Black

Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed

In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with

From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her […]

Michael Ondaatje – författaren till Den engelske patienten – är tillbaka med en ny stor roman. I London efter krigsslutet blir tonåringarna Nathaniel och Rachel övergivna av sina föräldrar, som i all hast måste lämna staden. Ansvaret för att ta hand om syskonen faller på en man de aldrig tidigare träffat. Han kallas Nattfjärilen och […]