Culture

The tale of Sylvia Beach, the woman who published James Joyce when no one else would, is told with a beautiful lightness by Kerri Maher in The Paris Bookseller.

Paula Greenlees’ debut novel Journey To Paradise, charting a couple’s move to 1940s Singapore, is an honest and vivid depiction of loss and belonging.

For its historical setting, you could almost call the unfolding of events of Co-Wives, Co-Widows, the first English edition of Adrienne Yabouza's writings, Dickensian.