Milan KunderaAll too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now though, a quarter century after The Joke was first...

Barbara W Tuchman The Barbara Tuchman classic study of war from Troy to Vietnam. January 1, 1984 by KNOPF

Nick Smurthwaite An assessment of the private life and public career of the award-winning actress discusses her background, her rise to success, her quest for dramatic excellence, and her possible...

Robert Jay Lifton Nazi doctors did more than conduct bizarre experiments on concentration-camp inmates; they supervised the entire process of medical mass murder, from selecting those who were to be...

David Brin Physicist Dennis Nuel was the first human to probe the strange realms called anomaly worlds--alternate universes where the laws of science were unpredictably changed. But the world Dennis...

Jack L Chalker Life had not been kind to Joe and Marge. Now, according to the stranger who met them on a road that wasn't there, they were due to...

Julie SmithWhen the heir to the Martinelli family's renowned sourdough starter is murdered before they were to auction it off, Rebecca Schwartz is determined to discover if he died for...

Stewart Steven April 1, 1984 by Ballantine Books

Antonia Fraser Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was...

John Christopher January 1, 1984 by Puffin

  Dr Raja Korale January 1, 1984 by ANGUS ROBERTSON

David LloydTim was a pet mouse, dept in a cage, but one day he made a daring escape. Life is the big, wide world seemed very scary, and full of...