Edited by David Crystal "Penguin"'s bestselling "Penguin Book of Facts" is the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date general fact book available. Organized in thematic sections that cover topics as diverse...

Alison Gopnik For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies, too....

Sophie Hannah Sally is watching the news with her husband when she hears a name she ought not to recognise: Mark Bretherick.Last year, a work trip Sally had planned was...

Victoria Hislop From the internationally bestselling author of The Island comes a dazzling new novel of family betrayals, forbidden love, and historical turmoil.Sonia knows nothing of Granada's shocking past, but...

Yitschak Ben Had Who are the Palestinians, and what do they want? Which terrorist groups are based in the Middle East? Who harbors them? Does Israel have legitimate rights to...

Frances de Pontes Peebles Winner of the Friends of American Writers Award for Fiction As seamstresses, the young sisters Emìlia and Luzia dos Santos know how to cut, mend, and...

Michael Palmer   Struck down by a hit-and-run driver, one of the world's most respected doctors lies comatose in the ICU unit of Boston's Beaumont Clinic. No one thinks he...

Martin Langfield Sotheby's, London, 1936. A paper by Sir Isaac Newton is sold at auction to a bookseller's agent and within minutes of leaving the auction house, he is killed...

Charles Finch In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a frantic widow visits detective Charles Lenox. Lady Annabelle's problem is simple: her beloved son, George,...

Raymond Khoury   When a scientific expedition is swallowed up by a shimmering sphere of light during a live CNN report, a devastated viewer in a dusty Egyptian bar recognizes...

Karen QuinnAlthough they couldn't be more different, Amanda, Serena and Laura Moon have always been there for one another.Amanda sizzles in the high stakes arena of New York City real...

Heather Domin Rome, 10BC. Manilus Dardanus, a new soldier from the provinces, applies for a military sponsorship with Cassius Valerian, general of a small legion patrolling the Raetian frontier. Idealistic...