Read Kristin Lavransdatter

A Roman patrician and a Christian girl under Nero; Sienkiewicz's Nobel.

A poet-doctor and Lara through the revolution and civil war; smuggled out and given the Nobel.

One ordinary day in a Siberian labour camp; the book that told the USSR about the Gulag.

Sethe, a runaway slave, and the ghost of the daughter she killed; Morrison's masterpiece.

Oskar stops growing at three and drums through Danzig's twentieth century; Grass's Nobel.

Crooked wooden wharf houses of the old Hanseatic trading quarter.

A butler drives to Cornwall and considers what he gave up for a lord; Ishiguro's Booker.

A murder among Ottoman miniaturists in 1591 Istanbul, told by everyone including the colour red.