Stephen Mitchell The theme of The Book of Job is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual insight.Now, The Book of Job has...

Scott Lynch In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist...

Felicia Berliner In this witty, provocative, and “compulsively readable coming-of-age story” (Cosmopolitan), a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because...

Jonathan C Slaght A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia.I saw my first Blakiston’s fish owl in the Russian...

Lynn Knight Clarice Cliff was one of the most significant ceramic designers of the twentieth century. Her work - a 'gargantuan feast of colour' - is avidly collected and is...

Rosalie Greenberg, MD Once considered an adult illness, bipolar disorder is one of the fastest growing categories in child psychiatry, touching the lives of an estimated one million children. But...

Judith Lederman and Candida Fink, MD HELP IS HEREBipolar disorder has recently been identified as one of the most misunderstood and underdiagnosed conditions affecting children -- and it is dramatically...

Karl Ove Knausgard Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions...

Orhan Pamuk On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. The...

Rebecca Hanover When six clones join Emmaline’s prestigious boarding school, she must confront the heartbreak of seeing her dead best friend’s face each day in class.The Similars are all anyone...

Raj Kumar Pruthi Since the dawn of civilization, people all over the world developed their native systems of medicines and therapies to overcome their health problems - which often varied...

Jack Gantos There is nothing strange about being attached to your mum. But the elderly Rumbaugh twins have got a seriously bad case of mother love. When Ivy makes a...