Arena Books: 108 books

This is a gripping and moving story celebrating women: their beauty, passion, talent, stamina and wit. A versatile and sensistive teenager, Wanda, is gifted with good looks, but she is oppressed by her secure yet restricted life in the Slovakia of the 80s. An awkward transition into adulthood marked...

Jacon dew Vries, arrives from Holland with his wife, Cristeen, and daughter, Katja, to a remote part of East Anglia to undertake the drainage of the swamps and meres of Oxay Fen. In doing so he is unaware of walking into a melee arousing political passions which divide the community.      ...

It’s Christmas 1979 and East/West relations are at their best since the end of World War II.  Having won a competition to report on the Moscow Olympics, Mary Granger, a junior reporter with epilepsy, has the world at her feet.  Then on Christmas Eve the Soviets invade Afghanistan, setting...

The remarkable true account of two English soldiers and a Waffen-SS soldier who formed a lifelong friendship after deserting their respective units during the military campaign in war-torn Italy. Each of them offers their own viewpoint as to what happened, and why and how they felt. The two...

In this unorthodox autobiographical collection of essays the author invites the reader into a world of travel, teaching, education, entertainment, chess, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, despair, political intrigue, faith and Catholicism. From beginning to end the reader will find moments...

A vivid and mesmerising high-tech thriller that speculates on the field of commercial teleportation. The year is 2104 and the teleportation of people from one continent to another has become an expensive and controversial reality. Hotshot salesman Guy Rennix of UK firm Tempus Biotronics is...

The farm Kloof may provide a sanctuary of sorts – but who really belongs here and how important is belongingness anyway? When her husband Jan is killed by a landmine, his widow Veronica (Ronnie) Boltman has little choice but to pick up her life and continue to farm Kloof. At stake are her...

Sean Hayward, an MI6 agent, uncovers a secret experiment and finds that the original mandate was to create a sinsiter defensive weapon. His fears grow when he discovers that the secret formula has fallen into the hands of an opposing foreign power. The experiment unfolds, the enormity of what has...

This is a road map for human survival from a scientific perspective. A sense of responsibility for future generations is essential and our aim should be to avoid unnecessary war, human suffering, and further harm to the environment. Male aggression and arrogance haver been allowed to hold women...

This is not only a travel book but a thought-provoking documentary on inter-cultural relationships between the different races and nationalities comprising the huge expatriate population and native Arab residents of the oil-rich peninsula. The many characters portrayed, presented in a variety...