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A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.

A communist revolution followed by a dictatorship is enacted when the animals of an English farm drive out the human owner and take over.

When her father is lost at sea during a typhoon and her family no longer has enough to eat, Yenyee travels to Vancouver as a servant, across the ocean which she feels betrayed her.

Set in the sinister monastery of The Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest.

After appearing to the author, whose plane has been forced down in the African desert, the little prince freely shares his experiences with the fascinated pilot, then disappears as mysteriously as

Sripathi Rao, the protagonist of Anita Rau Badami's second novel, is an ordinary, middle-aged man whose career and family have failed to meet his expectations.

Booker Prize winner. The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death.