Books from Arcadia Books

  • The Model
    The Model
    By Lars Saabye Christensen

    A chance encounter with an old classmate leads a vulnerable Peter into a sinister world which will haunt him for as long as he lives. The novel poses the question: How far is the artist willing to go in the pursuit of his art?

  • The Forger
    The Forger
    By Cay Rademacher

    Praise for the Frank Stave Investigations 'Undoubtedly the most powerful work of crime fiction I have read this year' Independent 'Vivid and harrowing' Sunday Times 'Police procedural, romance, thriller The Murderer in Ruins has a bit of ...

  • Marrakech Express
    Marrakech Express
    By Peter Millar

    Back in 1969 when Morocco's ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem 'Marrakech Express'.

  • Bitter Eden
    Bitter Eden
    By Tatamkulu Afrika

    Based on Afrika's own capture in North Africa,after the fall of Tobruk, and of his experiences,in Italy and Germany as a prisoner of war in WWII,this frank and beautifully written...

  • Pepsi and Maria
    Pepsi and Maria
    By Adam Zameenzad

    Pepsi is a smart street kid - his mother is dead and his father has disowned him. So he makes it his mission to return the kidnapped Maria to her...

  • Fan
    Fan
    By Danny Rhodes

    Fan is a book about personal and collective tragedy.

  • Fifty Miles Wide: Cycling Through Israel and Palestine
    Fifty Miles Wide: Cycling Through Israel and Palestine
    By Julian Sayarer

    BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR Ten years after breaking a world record for cycling around the world, award-winning travel writer Julian Sayarer returns to two wheels on the roads of Israel ...

  • The Angels of Paul Klee
    The Angels of Paul Klee
    By Boris Friedewald

    Boris Friedewald's stimulating and easy to read text introduces us to the meaning of angels in Paul Klee's oeuvre and to the artist's biography. A wonderful book to give away or read on your own every now and then.

  • My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank: The Memoirs of Anne Frank's Best Friend
    My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank: The Memoirs of Anne Frank's Best Friend
    By Jacqueline van Maarsen

    The author shares the joyous moments and painful memories of her friendship with Anne Frank

  • Slow Train to Guantanamo: A Rail Odyssey Through Cuba in the Last Days of the Castros
    Slow Train to Guantanamo: A Rail Odyssey Through Cuba in the Last Days of the Castros
    By Peter Millar

    Second of Millar's train journey titles moves from the US to a Cuba on the cusp of change.

  • The Midnight Swimmer
    The Midnight Swimmer
    By Edward Wilson

    On one corner is a war disabled KGB general, on another corner is his unfulfilled wife... This sophisticated novel is full of twists and turns that merge historical fact with fiction. Sleaze and high politics literally share the same beds.

  • Revolt
    Revolt
    By Qaisra Shahraz

    "Delightfully detailed, emotionally rich and relevant" Anora McGaha, editor of Women Writers, Women Books A multi-layered, multi-faceted story of love, loss and mixed-race marriage, Revolt is the tale of three wealthy sisters and the ...

  • Eurydice in the Underworld
    Eurydice in the Underworld
    By Kathy Acker

    This is an anthology of short fiction and other writings by Acker, including Politics, her debut work written at the age of 21, and The Translations of the Diaries of...

  • Good Clean Fun
    Good Clean Fun
    By Michael Arditti

    A honeymoon couple take an unconventional route to love . . . These stories employ a spectrum of different voices to explore all aspects of experience - friendship, family, misunderstandings, frustrations, griefs and joys.

  • Old Buildings in North Texas
    Old Buildings in North Texas
    By Jen Waldo

    To add to it all, her baby sister has turned up pregnant, the question of their absent fathers has once more been unearthed, and her prescribed medication is inducing an unnatural detachment that makes her feel as though she's not present ...

  • Brenton Brown
    Brenton Brown
    By Alex Wheatle

    "A rich layering of motive and emotion . . . robust dialogue, streetwise humour and muscular, mischievous vernaculour" Independent Set on the streets of Brixton, south London, BRENTON BROWN is a fatal love story about a man who never got ...

  • Lettice & Victoria
    Lettice & Victoria
    By Susanna Johnston

    Darkly funny and deeply insightful, Lettice & Victoria is not just a love story with a fanciful and flawed female protagonist, but a wonderful portrait of English society.

  • Fatal Crossing
    Fatal Crossing
    By Lone Theils

    Fatal Crossing is inspired by a real incident, in some photos of unknown girls, taken at Copenhagen Central Station, appeared in the possession of an American serial killer.

  • The Whitehall Mandarin
    The Whitehall Mandarin
    By Edward Wilson

    It is a secret that Catesby may not live to share. This captivating novel is set in a world of distorted reflections where nothing or no one is what they seem to be.

  • Bent
    Bent
    By Joe Thomas

    ... Soho gang. Really clean the bastards. That's the goal, anyway, the aim. The Scourge of Soho — he likes the sound of that. up * There is a boot in your side. Thump. There is a boot in your back. Crack. There is.