Modern Prose

Scout Finch narrates her father Atticus’s defence of a Black man falsely accused of assault in 1930s Alabama, tracing how racism, courage and moral education shape a Southern childhood.

Two itinerant ranch hands, George and Lennie, chase the American Dream across Depression-era California in a novella shaped by loneliness, discrimination and impossible hope.

Okonkwo’s rise and fall in the Igbo village of Umuofia maps the collision of tradition and colonial Christianity in late nineteenth-century Nigeria.

Kahu, a young Māori girl, challenges her tribe’s male-only leadership traditions through her mystical bond with the sacred whales of the Ngāti Konohi people.

Four Chinese-American mothers and their daughters navigate cultural memory, identity and inheritance across San Francisco and pre-revolutionary China.

Young solicitor Arthur Kipps travels to remote Eel Marsh House and encounters a vengeful spectre in a deliberately traditional English ghost story.

Celie’s epistolary voice traces her journey from abuse and silence towards selfhood, sisterhood and spiritual liberation in the early twentieth-century American South.