General Fiction

1941. With the men away fighting, animal-lover Hettie Quin is made Belfast Zoo's first ever female zookeeper. She is put in charge of Violet, a three-year-old Indian elephant, and they soon form a special bond. With Violet at her side, Hettie can almost escape the grim reality of her life: the fa...

'Zorba the Greek' is Nikos Kazantzakis's classic tale of Zorba, a free thinker who lives life to the full. The character of Zorba is based on a real-life acquaintance of the author, George Zorbas, with whom Kazantkakis ran a lignite mine.

In a small Tatar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia. Conditions in the camp are tough, and many of her group do not survive the f...