Marion Molteno: 3 books

A book it's difficult to put down. An absorbing exploration of coming to terms with love, loss and belonging, set against the vividly evoked atmosphere of the Isles of Scilly. A small community, cut off from Cornwall by thirty miles of sea. At the whim of Atlantic storms. A landscape lit by...

The new novel from Commonwealth Writers Prize winner Marion Molteno Finalist in the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards High in the mountains of war-torn Tajikistan, rebels abduct inspirational UN peace negotiator, Rahul Khan. The lives of his closest friends begin to unravel. ...

For many people, Urdu is indelibly associated with a bygone era: the cultural renaissance of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the face of colonial oppression, heady mushairas and romantic poetry. For others, it brings to mind the gritty prose of the Progressive Writers portraying the grim...