Item category 2: Black & Asian Interests

Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longing, partings; of Saturday night partying, and the smell and sounds of Southern cities; of freedom and shattered dreams.

When Alex Cross is called to investigate a massacre-style murder scene, he is shocked to find that the victim is an old friend. Angry, hurt and more determined than ever, Cross begins to hunt for the perpetrators of this cruel crime, drawing him into a dangerous underworld.

When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer's block, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story.

This is the debut novel from V.V. Ganeshananthan about fractured family relationships in modern Sri Lanka.

Filth is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the war. But Elisabeth is different - a free-spirit, with a lust for survival and an affinity with the Far East. No wonder she is attracted to Filth's hated rival at the Bar - the brash, forceful Veneering.

In this novel David Peace explores the rumours of complicity, conspiracy and cover-up that surround the chilling case of the Teikoku Bank Massacre. It was a case which would see Hirasawa Sadamichi, a 57-year-old artist, spend 40 years of his life on death row.

The eponomous heroine of this novel is the alter ego of brilliant and beautiful psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba. Atsuko is able to manipulate patient's dreams, even enter them, as an aid to psychoanalysis. When treating private patients, she transforms herself into the guise of Paprika to mask her t...

'The Personal History of Rachel Dupree' is a a novel about family and motherhood, homeland and belonging, and a woman's determination to prevail over even the severest privations.

Richard and Robin Mariner are aboard 'Tai Fun', preparing to join their friends at the opening ceremony of the luxury Volcano Roads hotel on the Indonesian island of Pulau Baya, when they spot two bodies floating in the still Java Sea. They rush them to shore but soon discover all is not as it se...