VirgilThe Aeneid of Virgil (70-19 B.C.) describes the legendary origin of the Roman nation. It tells of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who escaped with some followers after Troy fell, and...

Rhidian Brook SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEYSet in post-war Germany, the international bestseller The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook is a stunning emotional thriller about our fiercest...

Susan Jacoby Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon—one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular...

Plutarch “Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life.” ―Michael Dirda, Washington...

William Dalrymple Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying...

Arthur KoestlerArthur Koestler (1905-1983) was a journalist and psychologist, writer and public figure, world famous for his dystopian novel Darkness at Noon (1940), which marked his break with the Communist...

Karen Thompson Walker "It's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass-it's the ones you don't expect at all," says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe...

Cristina GarciaReina and Constancia Agüero are Cuban sisters who have been estranged for thirty years. Reina--tall, darkly beautiful, and magnetically sexual--still lives in her homeland. Once a devoted daughter of...

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen Personal happiness. Creative fulfillment. Professional success. Freedom from fear--and a new promise of joy that's yours for the asking.We have the ability at our...

Alastair Campbell As Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years , it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spokesman and...

Alastair Campbell Power and Responsibility  is the third volume of Alastair Campbell's unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo,...

Dave Duncan   The legendary Maestro Nostradamus may be able to glimpse the ever-changing future, but even he cannot see the danger that is about to envelop him and his...