Marco Lanacan In her inspired re-working of the fairy-tale Snow White and Rose Red Margo Lanagan has created characters that are vivid, passionate, flawed and fiercely devoted to their hearts'...

Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending A manifesto for and an example of a new kind of history, a biological history, and not just of the prehistoric era Scientists have long...

Timothy Ferris Tim Ferriss has trouble defining what he does for a living. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:'I race motorcycles in...

Michael Scott   Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on 28 September 1330. Nearly seven hundred years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is...

Inaam Kachachi At the beginning of America's occupation of Iraq, Zeina returns to her war-torn homeland as an interpreter for the US Army. Her formidable grandmother, the only family member...

Terry Deary From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories...Whitby, Northern England, 867. Edwin and Luke are young boys training to be monks. It's a quiet life, until one day the...

Sarah Silverman A real treat for any Sarah Silverman fan. Illustrated with photos. January 1, 2010 by Harper

Zoe Heller “[Zoe Heller] is an extraordinarily entertaining writer, and this novel showcases her copious gifts, including a scathing, Waugh-like wit.”— New York Times Best-selling author Zoe Heller has followed...

Stan and Jan Berenstain Young readers will face Too-Tall Grizzly and his gang with Brother and Sister Bear in this addition to the Living Lights™ series of Berenstain Bears books....

Charles McCarry When Charles McCarry's The Better Angels was first published almost 30 years ago, its premise--that terrorists would use passenger-filled airliners as tools of terror--seemed incredible. In retrospect, the...

Joanna Kavenna From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, an epic novel of childbirth—past, present, and futureThe year is 1865. In Vienna, Dr. Ignasz Semmelweiss has been...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb In Black Swan: The Impact of The Highly Improbable, the author projects randomness and uncertainty as a single idea. He puts forth a theory that promotes the...