Julian Novitz: 5 books

Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel. This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s...

**Holocaust Tours is funny, fierce and unafraid: a first novel that questions what history means to us now.**Taking time out in the UK, Daniel meets Anita. Getting involved with her means getting involved with her study of Holocaust memorials - and brings him face to face with his own Jewish heritage....

A tense short story about a cop caught out while planting a listening device. Hiding behind a couch, Adam Gellworth (a police surveillance expert or 'bugger' of twenty years' experience) is forced to contemplate the life he has led to get to this precarious point. But what of the men he was sent to...

A noir novel, creepy and compellingAt 11.06 pm, on 6 September 2001, eighteen year old Shane stands near the house of his girlfriend's father, staring at the hilt of a sword stabbed into the ground. The next morning, his best friend Will is sitting in a police station, trying to explain the tangled...

**This prize-winning collection of short stories playfully questions what 'real life' is and, more importantly, where it can be found.***Philip is a New Zealander, born and raised; the trouble is that no one will believe him. He travels widely, though his brother Dan has no intention of going anywhere...