Diana Kuan America's love affair with Chinese food dates back more than a century. Today, such dishes as General Tso's Chicken, Sweet and Sour Pork, and Egg Rolls are as...

Mark Urban When American and British forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, select teams of special forces and intelligence operatives got to work looking for the WMD their governments had...

Solomnick Abraham Maskilon Practical Hebrew Grammar - For beginning and intermediate Hebrew students, this is a straightforward, non-technical guide to grammar that is indispensable for everyday speaking, reading and writing....

Karen M McManus The global phenomenon returns with the third book in the One of Us Is Lying series, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen M. McManus. When someone from...

Alexander McCall Smith In this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling series, Mma Ramotswe must contend with her greatest challenge yet—a vacation!Business is slow at the No. 1 Ladies’...

NewScientist In this latest bumper collection of questions and answers from the popular "Last Word" column:- Why does Weetabix cling like cement?- What is earwax for?- Why are there only...

Simon Dawson From the jacket: Aged just 32, Simon Dawson took a risk. He sold his London flat and moved his wife and Great Dane to a cottage in Devon....

Elias Chacour As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were proud of their ancient Christian heritage and lived at peace with their...

Andrew Gimson THE MAKING OF A PRIME MINISTER'My biography of the year' Michael Crick'The scariest thing I've read since Silence of the Lambs' Ken LivingstoneA brilliant and definitive biography of...

Elizabeth Singer Hunt In one of his most daring exploits, Jack goes down under -- literally -- to investigate the disappearance of a diver off the Great Barrier Reef of...

T Coraghessan Boyle Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts,...

Moses Isegawa Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude , Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles tells a riveting story of twentieth-century Africa that is...