Aleksandar Hemon On 2 March 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Russian Jewish immigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the city’s Chief of Police. He was shot dead....

Valerio Massimo Manfredi In Jerusalem, in 586BC, the Kingdom of Judah is on the verge of annihilation by the Babylonians. In the chaos, the Prophet Jeremiah rushes to save the...

Golda Meir   My Life is the autobiography of the first female Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir. The book is both frank and very revealing of her personality and...

Dorothy Parker The Penguin Dorothy Parker contains stories and poems published collectively in 1944; late uncollected stories, articles and reviews; and the contents of Constant Reader (her New Yorker book reviews) - in...

Richard Russo From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully written novel about a small town in New York whose citizens have fallen on hard times. "Immensely readable...

William Napier AD 449: the future of the world hangs in the balance. The once mighty Roman Empire lies open and vulnerable to attack from a huge Hunnish army that...

Rhona Martin When Joanna Pengerran fled Buxford as a child to escape her murderous stepfather, she took refuge among the tinkers. The proud and wilful scion of a great family,...

Alison Weir Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and willful, and...

Ian Rankin And in Edinburgh, of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...?That sort of thing is the brutal abduction...

John Kennedy Toole   Ignatius J Reilly of New Orleans is a noble crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous...

Stefan Heym In this retelling of one of the great biblical stories, King Solomon commissions Ethan the Scribe to write the official history of King David. In return for the...

William Kennedy Winner of The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionIn this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the third in Kennedy’s Albany cycle, Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time...