Hoperoad: 25 books

Winner 'Literary Classi Seal of Approval' Dew Angels, is the deeply moving and powerful story of Nola Chambers, a young girl born with black skin into a fairskinned family.Because of the colour of Nola's skin she is subjected to cruel treatment by those within her family and the village in which she...

Sugar: Bitter-sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers is a contemporary collection of short stories based on facts which reveals a rich and culturally diverse history behind India’s migrant workers and one of the most abundant and controversial commodities in the world. Inspired by historical documents...

In many of these stories, there is as sense that things are not as they seem: a woman's husband-to-be has a questionable past and a voluptuous stranger's beauty belies her malevolence. Characters are shaped by the particular challenges of their context - a young pregnant Mosarwa girl is forced to...

This compact novella contains a gripping psychological tale, enlivened by wickedly sharp insights into contemporary small-town life in China. Yun Yun lives in a small West China town with her widowed father and an uncle, aunt, and older cousin who live nearby. One day, her once-secure world...

A heroic journey made by a boy who wasn't born to be a hero. Waking up in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, 13-year-old Jamal sets out to find out why the rules he grew up with no longer apply and how he fits into the new world that he finds himself in. The Ghosts & Jamal is an original and...

Ranging widely across both historical periods and national boundaries, Qaisra Shahraz's new collection of short stories speaks powerfully to the burning ethical issues of the 21st century. Ten powerful stories set on several continents and at different periods in history. A well-meaning Abolitionist...

The Cost of Sugar is an intriguing history of those rabid times in Dutch Surinam between 1765-1779 when sugar was king.Told through the eyes of two Jewish step sisters, Eliza and Sarith, descendants of the settlers of 'New Jerusalem of the River' know today as Jodensvanne. The Cost of Sugar is a frank expose of the tragic toll on the lives of colonists and slaves alike.

Nicky Burkett, still incarcerated at the end of Vinnie Got Blown Away, is released on to the streets of Walthamstow in It Was An Accident. He wants to go straight. His girlfriend Noreen wants him to go straight and she won't go near him if he doesn't. He tries. But events and people conspire against...

The third in the Nicky Burkett series takes him from Walthamstow to Switzerland. First he finds a dead member of parliament on his doorstep. Then the MP's widow hires him to find the killer. The whole gang decamps to Wengen in the high Alps—Noreen Hurlock, Jimmy Foley, Rameez Ahmed, Paulette James,...

The Warehouse is an original and contemporary novel set in Pakistan's dreaded Waziristan, a hotbed of crime, terrorism, and harsh brutality on the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Syed Quais Ali Quereshi, aka "Cash," a Karachi based insurance surveyor, is contracted by his extremely...

Life was never sweeter for Nicky Burkett. Got his own gaff and the beautiful Noreen on his arm but if there is trouble it will find Nicky - this time in Pakistan... Nicky arrives in Karachi to rescue his mate Kamran and eventually meets up with drug baron, Jamil Khan, the only man who can make the...