Alafair Burke A vacation in the Hamptons goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history.It was meant to be a harmless prank.Growing up, May Hanover was a good...

Jiang Rong Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst...

AN Wilson This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis.C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and...

Valérie Zenatti I'm full of fear and full of hope writing to you like this. I've never written to someone I didn't know. It feels strange. I don't know if...

Andrea Camilleri “You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike...

Kara Cooney Written in the tradition of historians like Mary Beard and Stacy Schiff who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable...

Neil J Kressel From the 1950s through the 1990s, antisemitism everywhere seemed to be on the wane. But as Neil Kressel documents in this startling book, the Muslim world has...

Achin Vanaik October 17, 1990 by Verso

Rosemarie M Esber Under the Cover of War is an important resource for anyone seeking to understand the full story of the 1948 Palestine war and the roots of the...

Martin Gilbert This is a very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of Europe during World War II. It is virtually a day-by-day account, in men and women's...

Ben Riley-Smith 'BRILLIANT' ANDREW MARR'HAD ME OPEN-MOUTHED WITH AMAZEMENT' ED BALLS'ESSENTIAL ' JON SOPEL'A GRIPPINGLY-WRITTEN, DETAILED BOOK THAT ANSWERS SO MANY QUESTIONS' ISABEL HARDMAN'SUPERB' EVAN DAVISThe explosive full story of...

David Sedaris Santaland Diaries collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice-scraper. This drinking man's companion...