Jim Crace Libri

The stoneworkers remain oblivious to the winds of change in the outside world--until a storyteller returns with a strange, angry woman whose death foretells the coming of metal and the end of stone.

Set in the early-19th century, this novel tells of the effects on a small kelping village, when two ships caught in storms are forced to discharge their very different cargoes onto their beaches. This novel won the 1995 Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.

In a remote English village, the morning after harvest begins with anticipation of rest and celebration, but the appearance of two mysterious columns of smoke disrupts the peace. This unsettling phenomenon ignites alarm and suspicion among the villagers, hinting at deeper troubles that may unravel their idyllic lives. The story explores themes of community, fear, and the unknown as the villagers confront the implications of this ominous sign.

Hell is other people... Two thousand years ago four travellers enter the Judean desert to fast and pray for their lost souls. In the blistering heat and barren rocks they encounter the evil merchant Musa - madman, sadist, rapist, even a Satan - who holds them in his tyrannical power. Yet there is also another, a faint figure in the distance, fasting for 40 days, a Galilean who they say has the power to work miracles... Here, trapped in the wilderness, their terrifying battle for survival begins.

The author ponders the redemptive power of secular love in this novel. Their bodies had expired, but anyone looking at them could see that Joseph and Celice were still devoted, the couple seemed to have achieved a peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. They were still man and wife, quietly resting, dead but not yet departed

A novel in seven stories, Continent is an exploration of the cultures, communities and natural life of an entirely imaginary realm

Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the landing, where he looks back on his affair with the seductive Padmini.

Raunchy, revelatory and beautifully refined, 'Six' charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man, the sexual emancipation of a city, and the sexual ambiguities of humankind.

From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of &i;>Harvest &/i>and &i;>Quarantine&/i>, a spellbinding fable about love, fear and where authority lies.