Books published by Holland House Books

A refugee washes up on the beach of an island inhabited only by Samuel, an old lighthouse keeper. Samuel is soon swept up in memories of his country suffering under colonisers, then fight for independence, only to fall under a dictator's rule. Now he wonders, to what lengths will a person go to ensure what is theirs will not be taken from them?

Without the horse, India would not be this India ... The history of the horse in India is an epic tale of life and war, of migration and intermingling, and points towards a greater history throughout the world, the history of humans and animals in symbiosis.

A vision, a peculiar international movement flooding the city, an Empress, and a strange artefact called the Chimaera... Petty Veniz will never be the same again, for it seems the Apocalypse is at hand.

Each interviewee was asked to nominate someone they admire as the next link. A theatre director, a rabbi, a sculptor, a pioneering documentary maker, a man who rescues giant trees; in Kabul, a Romanian orphanage, immigration detention centres, Indian villages, the Rwandan genocide, the Ferguson uprising, and UN Climate Change Negotiations.

When Daphne becomes pregnant, it isn't only her life that changes... For her husband Amir, for their parents, and for their friends Guy and Abigail, the pregnancy and birth force them all to look at their own lives, at what they want, at their pasts and their futures. Lives are changed.

Matilda was always happy to live vicariously through her collection of classic films- but that was before Thomas brought his manic energy into her life. Can she find her way back to herself?A strange, poetic story of what it is to be a young woman fractured by life.

This is the story of Lili Pohlmann's incredible childhood and survival. During the Second World War she was helped by many people, sometimes by simply 'looking the other way; but of especial significance were two remarkable non-Jews: a German woman working for the Nazi occupying forces in Lviv, and a Greek Catholic bishop.

The summer of 2006, and nineteen-year-old Layla returns to Lebanon. When she arrives she finds that her troubled younger brother is missing. She heads to Beirut to search for him, but her quest is cut short when Beirut comes under fire. A new war has begun, and she is trapped in the middle of it.

A profoundly moving novel about loss, memory and guilt, written in sparse and elegant prose, KOZLOWSKI tells the story of a man whose experience places him at the heart of one of the 20th century's most contentious war crimes, the 1940 Katyn Massacre.

This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin takes the reader on a writer's journey through the Darwin-Wedgwood-Galton clan, as seen through the lens of Emma's struggle. Along the way, her wry, witty and honest memoir becomes a brave book about failure - and, above all, a book about writing and how stories are told.

Grace Marlowe moves to the far west of Wales, hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a dark, forgotten house. Even her `voices' - her spirit-world companions - appear to abandon her. Except for one... A psychological exploration of a troubled mind, or a story of demonic possession in a haunted house?

The lives of a street girl, an aspiring writer, and a freed slave cross and re-cross the slums of London in this novel about the birth of passion, the burden of addiction, and the consolations of literature.

Five powerful stories exploring identity and selfhood. With haunting, Kafkaesque prose, Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein creates a series of profound, internal narratives.

Part of The Novella Project, a collection of six novellas by new and exciting authors.