Books from Arcadia Books

Stone and Honey
By Christina Zempi
A past and a present that will determine the future of all those involved. This story is universal and at the same time a deeply personal tale of a love that surpasses distance, dissolves differences, and survives time.
The Darkling Spy
By Edward Wilson
The novel's shocking conclusion will change the reader's view of the Cold War forever.
The Priest of Evil
By Matti Joensuu
The investigation had come to a standstill, all they could do was go over the same information time and again, just as they had done the day before, and Harjunpää suddenly had the feeling that even Rantanen was at a loss.
Death of a Translator
By Ed Gorman
Waiting in the mountain camp, from where Niazuldin's band of fighters lived and planned their hit-and-run attacks on Soviet troops, Ed Gorman discovers what it means to experience combat with men whose only interest is to be killed or ...
Death of a Translator: A journalist's journey to the heart of Soviet Afghanistan
By Ed Gorman
"Death of a Translator is a powerful and personal read. Ed Gorman discusses his experiences in an incredibly open and moving way. His story is an example to us all" - Brigadier Ed Butler CBE, DSO
Pagan and Her Parents
By Michael Arditti
'It's attributed to Rubens.' 'Wishful thinking.' 'Still, what does it matter?' I remember that I am on route to university, where school rules will be subsumed by subjectivity. 'What counts is how you feel.' 'Oh it matters.
Brixton Rock
By Alex Wheatle
All this leads to an explosive climax as Brenton struggles to hold on to his sanity. Brixton Rock is the powerfully explosive debut of one of the UK's finest writers, with pitch-perfect descriptions of South London street life.
Affairs of State
By Dominique Manotti
Dominique Manotti is back on form with a tale of intrigue and corruption.
The Writing on the Wall
By Gunnar Staalesen
"A Norwegian Chandler" JO NESBO "In the best tradition of sleuthery" The Times "One of the finest Nordic novelists in the tradition of Henning Mankell" BARRY FORSHAW, Independent Bergen, Norway.
The Book of Chameleons
By Jose Eduardo Agualusa
"Ingenious, consistently taut and witty" TLS Strange, elliptical, charming" Guardian Set in contemporary Angola, this novel is populated with characters whose victories never quite settle.
The Serbian Dane
By Leif Davidsen, Barbara J. Haveland
A politician in parliament strikes a deal with dire consequences. And somewhere in the former Yugoslavia a young man signs up for murder. The man is Vuk. He is the Serbian Dane.
The Woman from Bratislava
By Leif Davidsen
In Bratislava, Teddy Pedersen, a middle-aged, Danish university lecturer, receives a visit from an Eastern European woman who turns out to be his half-sister.
Lorraine Connection
By Dominique Manotti
The players in this deadly-serious game of Monopoly will stop at nothing.
Back from Africa
By Corinne Hofmann
Corinne Hofmann describes her return to Switzerland and the difficulties that faced her there, detailing how she built a new life for herself and her daughter and overcame all obstacles, with the same courage and optimism with which she ...
See You Tomorrow
By Tore Renberg
A fast-paced, moving and darkly funny page-turner about people who are trying to fill the holes in their lives, See You Tomorrow combines horror and hope, heavy metal music and literary marvels to become a startlingly original, eerie and ...
On Hampstead Heath: A delightfully sharp and witty comedy of errors
By Marika Cobbold
Marika Cobbold returns with her eighth novel, On Hampstead Heath. Sharp, poignant, and infused with dark humour, On Hampstead Heath is an homage to storytelling and to truth; to the tales we tell ourselves, and the stories that save us.
Under the Sun
By Justin Kerr-Smiley
* It is the final weeks of World War Two and the Japanese forces are in retreat.
Typhoon
By Qaisra Shahraz
"Typhoon" is set in Chiragpur, a Pakistani village warped in time, space and guilt, whose inhabitants are still traumatised by what happened some twenty years earlier in a courtroom (kacheri).
The Memory Man
By Lisa Appignanesi
Journeying to Poland and to points farther east, to lost families and forgotten loves, this vivid novel of time, place, and memory reveals a world where some can't remember and others can't forget.
The Daughter
By Pavlos Matesis
But this is more than a portrait of one family: it also delineates a country at war not only with a common enemy - Nazism - but also of Greece's turbulent post-war period.