Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her life upside down, bombarding her day and night with ghostly stories of strange ancestors from the world of Yin. Olivia just wants to live a normal American life.
For the next thirty years Olivia endures visits from Kwan and her ghosts, who appear in the living world to offer advice on everything from restaurants to Olivia's failed marriage. But, just when she cannot bear it any more, the revelations of a tragic family secret finally open her mind to the startling truths hidden in Kwan's unorthodox vision of the world.

This is Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums - too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brought the family to the brink of disaster. It is a story of courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds.

One winter evening the neighbour's six year old boy falls to his death from the apartment roof in Copenhagen. Accidental death, say the police. But Smilla Jaspersen, a resourceful, tenacious and bloody minded Greenlander, knows the boy well; moreover, she has a feeling for snow - and those last footprints tell her a tale..... Her investigation starts in Denmark and leads to the Arctic ice cap as Smilla doggedly homes in on her quarry.

As befits the hero of a modern fairy tale, Lawrence Frost has neither father nor siblings, and fits so awkwardly into his worldly mother's life, he might have dropped from the sky. Like many such a hero, he grows up happier with plants than people. Whilst he is straightforward, honest, and a doting dad, he can be a difficult, taciturn husband -- but he's the last person one would suspect of being a killer...

The McHugh's marriage is on the rocks. Daughter Ciara worries that her mother and father are going to divorce. Lillian, Ciara's Gran, is worried too. She has a nice life now, since her bullying husband died. This could all change. Meanwhile, Brenda Johnstone is very happy. She has a lot to gain if the McHugh's divorce. Or has she? And Mike and Kathy Stuart, the McHugh's best friends, are beginning to wonder if the friendship can survive. Then, one awful night, everything changes....

A rich, colourful explosion of Indian culture spanning from Madras to Demerara, this novel is so vividly told and so skilfully woven that you'll find yourself visualizing the story as you go along, in full colour with surround sound, smells and all. Three children, two countries, three stories, three different decades - separate, yet cohesively bonded into one epic saga.

This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and poverty which is his family's lot, never questioning the validity of his father's homespun philosophy of life - the Infinite Plan. But, as manhood approaches, Gregory finds himself increasingly possessed of a yearning to escape. Hankering after worldly wealth, he longs to break away from the barrio, the teeming Hispanic ghetto of downtown Los Angeles where his family has finally settled......

Eliza is a foundling. Discovered on the doorstep of the British Import and Export Company in 1830s Chile, she is eagerly adopted by Miss Rose Sommers, who keeps house for her two brothers, a businessman and a sea captain. But although Rose is determined to turn her into a proper English lady, headstrong Eliza determinedly charts her own course.