Charles Townshend The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against...

Francis Cottam Every year, three million single women in America move into an apartment for the first time. Few of them change the locks . . . Juliet Devereau can't...

Michael Byrnes The riveting sequel to the international bestseller The Sacred Bones, Michael Byrnes’s The Sacred Blood is a provocative, heart-racing thriller in the Dan Brown mode while adding a...

Lars Kepler During a cold winter night in Stockholm a man is found walking alongside a railway bridge, suffering from hypothermia and legionella. After he's rushed to the hospital, it's...

Jan Burchett and Sara VoglerWhile on the lookout for treasure ships, the Sea Wolf pirates encounter a tattered galleon adrift on the Caribbean Sea. When they board, they find only...

Kishwar Desai Goa, south India. A beautiful holiday hideaway where hippies and backpackers while away the hours. But beneath the clear blue skies lies a dirty secret… Simran Singh is...

Vanessa GreeneThe Seafront Tea Rooms is a peaceful hideaway, away from the bustle of the seaside, and in this quiet place a group of women find exactly what they've been...

Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee A revolution is under way. In recent years, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the best...

Nicolas Barreau Alain Bonnard, owner of a small cinema in Paris, believes in nostalgia. At Cinema Paradis there are no buckets of popcorn, no Hollywood blockbusters. Alain holds firm to...

Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature...

RS Belcher Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose...

Author: Jo NesboSONNY’S ON THE RUNSonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the confessions of other inmates, and absolves them of their sins.HE’S BEEN LIED TO HIS WHOLE LIFEBut...