Ebooks West: 4 books

A poignant yet gently satirical, mesmerising epitaph on life, Virgins of the Lake situates somewhere in the dark place between parody and obituary. Based loosely on Persian myth, the plot weaves around Sohrab and his sister Nahid. The idea is that Zoroaster's seed was preserved in a lake, and at the...

The far distant future beyond 2150, beyond the climate apocalypse, beyond dystopian aftershock, in a decayed world stagnating from boredom and corruption, far out beyond civilisation the Crop Masters work incessantly to maintain food supplies. The protective high wall around the metropolis, built...

An only child and gifted musician growing up in a big city hotel managed by his hard-working parents, who relocate at short notice out onto the edge of the vast Central Desert where nothing is as he expects. On the cusp of puberty he meets the girl of his dreams and her vigilante, protective brother...